The Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation Ribbon is a decoration of the United States Merchant Marine. The decoration is awarded to officers and seamen who served on a United States vessel or to a foreign-flagged vessel, which at the time of service, participated in outstanding or gallant action in marine disasters or other emergencies for the purpose of saving life or property at sea. At the center of the ribbon is a silver seahorse device.
The bronze Gallant Ship Citation Plaque is awarded to the ship.
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“I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Bid her paint till day of doom,
To this favour she must come.
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Yet to this shape all must be brought.”
—Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
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—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
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That smile when she treads on them;
And Phillis hath a gallant flock
That leaps since she doth own them.
But Phillis hath so hard a heart—”
—Thomas Lodge (1558?–1625)
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Every ship brings a word;
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Looking seaward well assured
That the word the vessel brings
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)