USS Argus (PY-14)
USS Argus (PY-14) was a patrol yacht that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. Named for the Argus (a monster with a hundred eyes supposedly slain by the Greek mythological messenger of the gods, Hermes), she was the second U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name.
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“But since Thy loud-tongu’d Blood demands Supplies,
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I’ll tune Thy Elegies to Trumpet-sounds,
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—James Graham Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650)