Ships
- SS Mariposa (1883), iron ship of the Oceanic Steamship Company which provided service between San Francisco originally to just Hawaii, later also to Australia and New Zealand, became part of the Matson Line in 1926; ship sold in 1912 to the Alaska Steamship Company
- SS Mariposa (1931), Matson Lines ocean liner; renamed SS Homeric in 1953
- USS Mariposa, war service designation of SS Mariposa
- USS Mariposa (X-125), Liberty ship carrying gasoline; sunk December 30, 1944 off Occidental Mindoro by Allied torpedoes after devastating Japanese air attack
- Mariposa (WLB 397), USCG Seagoing Buoy Tender
- SS Mariposa, fictional spacecraft from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up the Long Ladder"
- Mariposa, fictional ship from the novel Martin Eden by Jack London
- Mariposa, fictional starship/admirals gig of Pern from novel Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)