Quotes About Seafaring

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima.

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.

We were standing outside on the great steps of the hall high above the blue waters of San Francisco Bay, and they were there, the white ships on the tide, and all my love rose to sing my newfound seaman's life. -- The Sea! Real ships! My sweet ship had come in, no dream but true with tangled rigging and actual shipmates and the job slip secure in my wallet and only the night before I'd been kicking cockroaches in my tiny dark room in 3rd Street slums.

The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.

Without ships, we cannot live.

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.

The only difference between a pirate and a privateer is a flag

Realising that Mauritius could be a valuable port of call for Dutch ships Heemskerck put a rooster and some hens ashore and planted orange and lemon seeds, invoking 'the Almighty God's blessing that He may lend His power to make them multiply and grow for the benefit of those who will visit the island after us'.

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.

Kunjali Marakkar is one of the first naval commanders of Kerala. He was an expert at his craft.

With their maneuverable sails and impressive seaworthiness, caravels became the vessels of choice for exploration.

mass, only Magellan's cousin, Álvaro de Mesquita, the recently appointed captain of San Antonio, came aboard Trinidad

under the command of the two Portuguese commanders.

They designed a new type of ship, the small, maneuverable caravel

and they could tack, that is, shift their course to take advantage of the wind

Baldaya sailed farther south and collected thousands of sealskins;

Every captain sponsored by Prince Henry was under orders to record the tides, the currents, and the winds

Portuguese knowledge of the oceans and of the world beyond the Iberian peninsula.

accounts from Magellan's time mention their daunting stern castles, their multiple decks, and the profusion of obras muertas, or "dead wood

Vasco da Gama retraced Dias's route around the tip of Africa and reached Mozambique on the southeastern coast;

there he replenished his supplies and sailed farther east to establish an ocean route to India.

Elizabeth crossed the Sargasso Sea without incident

and sealing leaks. There was also a complement of divers aboard the fleet, whose job it was to swim under the ships