Honored in Ship Naming
Two ships were named USS Sands for him and his son, James H. Sands:
- Sands (DD-243/APD-13), a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1920
- Sands (T-AGOR-6), an oceanographic research ship, placed in service in 1965
Read more about this topic: Benjamin F. Sands
Famous quotes containing the words honored in, honored, ship and/or naming:
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host...But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:8,10.
“Those who do good will be honored by the spirits; those who do evil will be punished by Heaven.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I would rather not see such winds subside, which carry your slow ship away, although they leave me, cast down, on an empty shore, often, with clenched hand, calling you cruel.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)