Quotes About Maritime

Stephen, what is the French for a double sister-block, coaked? With a pair of them and a proper hold-fast, I could raise the Temple.' 'A double sister-block, coaked? The Dear alone can tell. I do not even know what it is in English.

They were called turtle-boats and they were the first iron warships in history.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

courts may exercise jurisdiction: cases between states; cases between a state and citizens of another state, or between citizens of different states; "controversies to which the United States shall be a party"; admiralty and maritime disputes; cases involving ambassadors and other foreign diplomats; and cases between a state or its citizens and the government or residents of a foreign state.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

clinker-built fishing vessels. The high bow was necessary

Newfoundland's own brand of music from groups such as Great Big Sea, the Ennis Sisters, and Buddy Wassisname.

boat has been drawn out of the water, onto the sand.

and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.

harbor for a seaport, you see; thus slaves must be brought overland at

The best access is to be tendered to shore from a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Maybe, seen through the fresh lens of twenty-first-century behavioral and biological science, the explanation for one of the most consequential disasters in maritime history is less sinister. Maybe Captain Turner just made some bad decisions. And maybe those decisions were bad because he made them in the afternoon.

New Brunswick. Shediac. Lobster Capital of the World.

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.

The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized by ballast,

A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.

How do you break into a ship?" "The same way you do a house, only wetter.

We are all tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.

Normandy was the province with the largest number of channel ports and the deepest harbors.

Bothwell, an expert seaman, escaped with three of his ships.

creating a new kingdom called Dal Riata – a maritime empire