USS Celtic
USS Celtic may refer to two ships of the United States Navy named for or pertaining to the Celts or their language.
- USS Celtic (AF-2), built in 1891 by Workman Clark and Company, Belfast, Ireland, as the Celtic King; purchased by the U.S. Navy on 14 May 1898
- USS Celtic (IX-137), built in 1921 as the Kerry Patch by Bethlehem Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts; acquired by the U.S. Navy 17 January 1944
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Famous quotes containing the word celtic:
“Coming to Rome, much labour and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you you will not find Him.”
—Anonymous 9th century, Irish. “Epigram,” no. 121, A Celtic Miscellany (1951, revised 1971)