Quotes About Ships

I remember the black wharves and the slips,And the sea-tides tossing free;And Spanish sailors with bearded lips,And the beauty and majesty of the ships,And the magic of the sea.

The season of ships is here,The west wind and the swallows;Flowers in the fields appear,And the ocean of hills and hollowsHas calmed its waves and is clear.Free that anchor and chain!Set your full canvas flying,O men in the harbor lane:It is I, Priapus, crying.Sail out on your trades again!

"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—Of cabbages—and kings—And why the sea is boiling hot—And whether pigs have wings."

One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

The four cafés on the Boulevard Victor-Noir, shining in the night, side by side, and which are much more than café--aquariums, ships, stars or great white eyes--have lost their ambiguous charm.

The Brits are escorting their ships, and we will escort our ships, and I assume other countries will escort their ships.

Two days after the incident, the commander of the task group, Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward, signalled ships with a list of 15 lessons learned.

The British signal system was archaic. In battle, British ships hoisted enormous 'battle ensigns' to prevent them from being mistaken for the other side, but the signal flags remained as small as ever, and easy to misinterpret in the heat of battle.

Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.

There is an age-long argument about ships versus forts. Nelson said that a six-gun battery could fight a 100-gun ship-of-the-line. Mr. Balfour, in the Dardanelles inquiry, said in 1916: "If the ship has guns which can hit the fort at ranges where the fort cannot reply, the duel is not necessarily so unequal.

It's a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.

Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night — there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.

Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

The Japanese have changed their radio codes, the call signals for their ships...They change their codes every six months, like clockwork. These codes were changed after four weeks...Logically, it means they're preparing for a large-scale operation.

The Winnebago motored past working and long-abandoned factories devoted to manufacturing vessels and the countless parts and accessories with which ships were outfitted. To Colter Shaw, never a sailor, it seemed like you could spend every minute of every day maintaining, repairing, polishing and organizing a boat without ever going out to sea.

I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.

Economy and the profit margin ruled—although, in hindsight, it does seem that this was a false economy. Ships had to be manned above capacity to allow for a 30, 40 or even 50 percent death rate from scurvy. Even without a high death rate, the effectiveness of a crew suffering from scurvy would have been remarkably low. And then there was the humane factor—rarely considered during these centuries.

Bright specks that were commute ships, little eggs that carried businessmen and white-collar workers around. The huge transport tubes that shot masses of workmen to factories and labor camps from their housing units.

with the Minister for Immigration, Harold Holt, and the head of his department, Heyes, who said the department would 'be very willing to co-operate', but the defectors needed to have 'satisfactory' health, be of 'reasonable age', be prepared to take whatever work was offered and should come to Australia as full fare-paying passengers in British ships.60 Subsequently, on 15 May

Ships at a distance have every man's wish onboard.

Two ships, the Chiyoda and Chitose, were specially built, in the guise of sea plane carriers, to carry midget submarines and their call signs on naval radio were reported as seaplane carriers.

Men whose ships were wrecked or who were pressed into the navy at sea rarely received any of the wages they were owed, spelling disaster for the families they left behind.