Quotes About Maritime

Greene shipped out from Liverpool on 9 December 1941 in a 5000-ton Elder Dempster cargo vessel

There is no prettier sight in the world than a full-rigged, clipper-built brig, sailing sharp on the wind.

The whaling era that opened after the War of 1812, from about 1817 to the mid-1850s, has come to be called whaling's golden age. Its primary anchorage shifted from Nantucket Island to New Bedford, below Cape Cod at the mouth of the Acushnet River.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

Rats, even dead rats, are as familiar to sailors as sunburn. Or fleabites.

The sea! The sea!

Se le vie marittime non si lasciano circoscrivere facilmente forse è perché sono intrecciate di racconti e le leggende: le carte su cui sono state segnate sono forse immaginarie, gli scritti che le accompagnano inventati

She was a barkentine—three masts

She measured 144 feet over-all, with a 25-foot beam

Her keel members were four pieces of solid oak, one above the other

Her sides were made from oak and Norwegian mountain fir

there was a sheathing from stem to stern of greenheart, a wood so heavy it weighs more than solid iron

as nowhere else on earth, the sea girdles the globe

The waves thus produced have become legendary among seafaring men. They are called Cape Horn Rollers

The trip across the Atlantic took more than two months.

The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign using this brand-new weapon. We have to appreciate how the submarine, as a weapon against civilian shipping, was a particularly novel thing - so novel that many people at the time dismissed its potential power, its potential relevance.

Dhamra Port is a model of modern maritime trade in Odisha and a successful example of public-private partnership.

The South China Sea functions as the throat of the Western Pacific and Indian oceans—the mass of connective economic tissue where global sea routes coalesce. Here is the heart of Eurasia's navigable rimland, punctuated by the Malacca, Sunda, Lombok, and Makassar straits. More than half of the world's annual merchant fleet tonnage passes through these choke points, and a third of all maritime traffic worldwide.2

Since then, as the Chinese navy becomes larger and more wide-ranging, the bent toward Mahan has only intensified in Beijing, especially with the rise of Indian sea power, which the Chinese fear; the Indians, for their part, view the Chinese in similar Mahanian terms.

idea of Central Europe has a "fatal geographical flaw." Central Europe, Mackinder and Fairgrieve tell us, belongs to the "crush zone" that lays athwart Maritime Europe, with its "oceanic interests

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.'

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

We believe it is important to have an organisational link in London, still the world's premier maritime centre.