Quotes About Maritime

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

The Sea Letters of Grace F. Ladd, by Louise Nicols;

NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.

London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.

Penobscot Bay

Señores, señoras: bienvenidos a la Zheng He.

Deitãose fóra das ilhas de Angitur, seguem por mar que até então Portuguezes nunca tinhão visto nem navegado.

C'est en Méditerranée que s'est joué le sort maritime, mondial de l'Islam. Là, il aura gagné, désespérément combattu et, finalement, perdu.

Each year over 2 500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

The Shakespearean theatre was the product of the entrepreneurial maritime culture of the age,

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, it is my responsibility to help our country adapt to and overcome the threats that COVID-19 presents to air travel.

Being born and brought up in Visakhapatnam, the story of the sinking of Ghazi and the 1971 Indo-Pak war was something we had grown up listening to.

The SS Sapona shipwreck, is such a cool site.

The Seaman's Practice

In 1846, America had more than 650 whaling ships, roughly three times as many as all the rest of the world put together.

I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special.

Did the famous shipbuilder, Donald Mackay specify as 'right' or'left' when describing the 'yardarms' on the masts of his globe-girdling China Clipper sailing ships?

Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design?

Shipbuilders in their time period referred to certain parts of a ship as the 'forepeak'. Were there any viable restrictions which prevented a sailing vessel from possessing more than 'fore'; mayhaps five or ten of such peaks?

I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons—because I'm bred to the sea.

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.