USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)
USS Burton Island (AG-88) was a United States Navy Wind-class icebreaker that was later re-commissioned in the United States Coast Guard as the United States Coast Guard Cutter Burton Island (WAGB-283). She was named after an island near the coast of Delaware.
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Famous quotes containing the words burton and/or island:
“One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)