Ships
- HMS Surprise, the name of several British Royal Navy ships
- HMS Surprise (novel), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian
- USS Surprise, the name of several United States Navy ships
- HMS Surprise (replica ship), a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
- HMS Surprize (1746), a 24-gun sixth rate ship of the Royal Navy
- Surprize (ship), convict ship sailed to Australia 1790
- Surprise (clipper), 1850 clipper ship in the San Francisco and tea trades
- Surprise (1777), the first American naval ship of the name
- Surprise (paddle steamer), the first paddle steamer, and the first steam powered vessel, built and run in Australia
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)
“The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm ... we were good at that.”
—Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)