USS Smith Thompson (DD-212)
USS Smith Thompson (DD-212) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the only ship named for Secretary of the Navy Smith Thompson.
Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or thompson:
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
“I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)