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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.
The stoats are on guard, at every point, and they make the best sentinels in the world.
No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.
Saved from war by poor navigation?
At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry,
A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
On the face of the black earth, but I say
It's what one loves.
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>
I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir - " Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely " - and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.
raiding parties and pirate crews. This is in stark
Shipmates might depend. That word: teamwork. It
Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.
One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.
Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
So we beat on, boats against the current.
Nobody with me at sea but myself.
Each of a hundred ships, built by the same men at the same yard to the same plans, will have her own special characteristics--most of them bad, really, but after her crew becomes accustomed to them they are spoken of affectionately, particularly in retrospect.
What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.
bunched formation of fighter planes, it
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.
The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
Ex Scientia, Tridens
(From knowledge, seapower)
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
In Lisbon, a street cry gloated over the Spanish defeat: Which ships got home? The ones the English missed. And where are the rest? The waves will tell you. What happened to them? It is said they are lost. Do we know their names? They know them in London. Oh,
Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
The longed-for ships come empty home, founder on the deep
And eyes first lose their tears and then their sleep.
A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
I'm a bloodydamn Helldiver with an army of giant, mildly psychotic women behind me and a fleet of state-of-the-art warships crewed by pissed-off pirates, engineers, techs, and former slaves.
I'm glad I was in the Navy.
It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.
The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that. Often we think that what is verging upon us is ours alone. We forget that there are other sides entirely.
The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.
The lights of many battleships drifting like water jewels upon the dark Hudson...
In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.
The Asia had sixty-four heavy guns. For weeks it roamed the waters of New York Harbor, its weapons pointed at the city, looking something like an Imperial Destroyer from Star Wars. To stand
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.
Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.
Splash or crash? Do you want special ops messing about in boats? Or special ops messing in aeroplanes?
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps
I myself have seen the floating ships
And nothing will ever be the same
The shouts,
The harrowing voices within the house.
I stand apart with an army:
My mind is graven with ships.
No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.
French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers. I watched the coast. Watching a coast
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
I prefer 'buccaneers',' he grinned. 'A small privately funded army of committed peacekeepers. Tough, but fair. Our motto is: We put the fist in 'pacifist'.
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.
All wars will be settled by sea power.
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.
Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe.
It was not easy victory in the America Cup. Our boys spent years experimenting with different designs for their boat before they came up with the innovative idea of having a submerged nuclear submarine tow it.
Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.
Save the World-ers
Without ships, we cannot live.
We were three ships in a summer's dawn, and we were going to battle.
We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Fleets cannot operate without bases.
The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
at sea, things appear different.
No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.
No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
Our Navy is great. Our navy is great. Our people are great... Great.
The Japanese Navy not only outgunned American forces in the Pacific but proved more powerful in that ocean than the combined navies of the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands.
Be an unsinkable ship.' Basically, making yourself seaworthy is easier than trying to control the sea.
Pray state, this day, on one side of a sheet of paper, how the Royal navy is being adapted to meet the conditions of modern warfare.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
If you think of a special operations team - SEALs, Special Forces, Rangers, and the Air Force Pararescuemen and combat controllers - like a boat, everybody rows.
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.
The Titanic will protect itself.
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
Starships were settlements in the sky. Some were villages; Ultimatum was a great metropolis. And yet even Star Destroyers functioned like small towns. A big sink full of gossip - and as with small towns, the contents all tended to flow toward one person, like water to a drain.
I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.
No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.