Quotes About Naval battle

As Herman Wouk wrote in War and Remembrance, 'The vision of Sprague's three destroyers--the Johnston, the Hoel, and the Hermann--charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita's battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don't have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it.

At first the wave of Persia's fleet rolled firm, but next, as our ships jammed into the narrows and no one could help any other and our own bronze teeth bit into our own strakes, whole oarbanks shattered.

The British suffered worse casualties than in any previous naval battle, and more than twice as many as the Germans. But the material losses were not so heavy as at first appeared. Because of the very rapid development of the Dreadnought-type ship, the Invincible and Indefatigable were already outdated. The Queen Mary was a more modern battle cruiser, but she was much less valuable to the British than was the brand-new Lützow to the Germans.

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.

Now, in my experience there is only one way to fight a ship, and that is to get below on the side opposite to the enemy and find a snug spot behind a stout bulkhead.

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

We were three ships in a summer's dawn, and we were going to battle.

In our two fleets participating in the Philippines battle we had twelve battleships to the enemy's nine.

Thus both in the movement along the coast and in the naval engagement which ensued, the Syracusans proved themselves quite a match for the Athenians, and at length made their way into the harbour at Messenè.

At Tsushima on May 27–28, 1905, the Japanese fleet under Admiral T?g? Heihachir? sent two-thirds of the Russian fleet – 147,000 tons of naval hardware and nearly 50,000 sailors – to the bottom of the Korea Strait.

But everyone on the British side knew Nelson had arrived.

Shortly before 7 p.m., Captain Jean Lucas of the Redoutable caught his first glimpse of Nelson's fleet to starboard:

Turning hard aport, the Royal Sovereign quickly drew alongside the Santa Ana,

With almost fifty guns already loaded and still working on the starboard side, the Spanish won.

Badcock's ship had already tried to push ahead of the Victory and lead the dash towards the enemy line,

Then seven or eight French and Spanish ships opened up together

all firing at the Victory in unison. Their purpose was to dismast the British flagship

A raking shot, which entered in the lower deck, had glanced along the beams and through the thickest of the people,