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The only one really with a given name is the Argo, which Jason and the Argonauts piloted on their quest for the Golden Fleece. There was once a young prince named Phrixus, whose evil stepmother convinced his father that he had to be sacrificed in order to save the country from famine. Phrixus was about to be killed when Zeus sent a golden ram and saved him and his sister Helle. Helle, sadly, fell off the ram and landed in the water below, drowning, but Phrixus arrived at Colchis, and its king welcomed him. The ram was sacrificed, and the golden fleece hung in a grove.
Jason was sent by his uncle Pelias, who was king of a kingdom that was rightfully Jason's father's. Jason had come to claim the throne, but Pelias said that he had to fetch the fleece first, and there was a never-sleeping dragon who guarded it, so he thought Jason would never return. Athena, goddess of wisdome put a piece of sacred oak in the prow.
Other unnamed ships or boats are the one that Odysseus sailed to return home (but lost during a storm); the boat that Charon, the ferryman of the dead, uses; the boat that Heracles used; the boat that the sun god Helios rode from the west to the east when his work was done; etc.

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