Ships Mentioned
- HM hired hydrographical vessel Surprise - twenty-eight gun frigate
- Ringle - Surprise's tender
- Asp - ex-Royal Navy; being re-fitted in Chile
- USS Delaware - Captain Lodge
- Isaac Newton - a converted packet ("the Lisbon packet"); carrying some Members of the Royal Society
- O'Higgins - ancient heavy frigate ex Spanish navy (name afterwards changed to San Martin)
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Famous quotes containing the words ships and/or mentioned:
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints. Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 5:3-4.