USS Polaris

USS Polaris is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

  • Polaris (ship), which was the tug Periwinkle and renamed Polaris in 1871.
  • USS Polaris (AF-11) which was built in 1939 as SS Donald McKay and acquired from the Maritime Commission 27 January 1941.
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Famous quotes containing the word polaris:

    “Where is the “unexplored land” but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place—London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard—is “unexplored land,” to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)