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:
“Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by such a foe! The inhabitant of an island can tell what currents formed the land which he cultivates; and his earth is still being created or destroyed. There before his door, perchance, still empties the stream which brought down the material of his farm ages before, and is still bringing it down or washing it away,—the graceful, gentle robber!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)