Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS General Greene for Nathanael Greene.
- USRC General Green was a revenue cutter built in 1791
- USS General Greene (1799) was a frigate built in 1799 and participated in the Quasi-War with France
Other ships are similarly named for Nathanael Greene:
- USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), a James Madison-class fleet ballistic missile submarine
- USAV MG Nathanael Greene (LT 801), a United States Army tugboat
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Famous quotes containing the words general and/or greene:
“When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)
“His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)