Ship Names
No less than eighteen consecutive ships of the British Royal Navy bore the name HMS Lion. Also various other navies used the name for their vessels, as did civil shipping companies.
Read more about this topic: Cultural Depictions Of Lions
Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or names:
“A ship has a soul.”
—John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. “Stooky” O’Meara (Barry Fitzgerald)
“If marriages were made by putting all the men’s names into one sack and the women’s names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)