Quotes About Ships

One way to combat it was to force sailors to stay on ships for forty days after anchoring, only allowing them to come ashore if they were well after forty days—thus the term quarantine (from the word for forty).

The discipline on Dutch ships was perhaps more brutal than on other European merchant ships… The official rulebooks allowed captains to punish any seamen who injured another by pinning him to the mast with a knife through his hand.

Glass had come to view the sea, which he once embraced as synonymous with freedom, as no more than the confining parameters of small ships. He resolved to turn a new direction.

October 20, 1916, when a freshwater hurricane brought down four ships on Lake Erie, became known as Black Friday.

Our mother and father had a club. The Society of Inimitable Livers." "And what did this society do?" she asked breathlessly. "They had banquets on ships and discussed literature with philosophers from around the world." "Then they changed it to the Order of the Inseparable in Death," I added, "when our father lost the Battle of Actium.

The Byzantines mounted catapults on their ships; they also introduced the West to Greek Fire, apparently a mixture of petroleum, quicklime, and sulphur. The quicklime in contact with water ignited the bomb, a primitive napalm.

Even as the two admirals sat talking, the blockade was being joined by three new ships from England.

The Royal Navy was waiting for them outside, but its ships were thinly spread and heavily outnumbered.

the number of capital ships available for the invasion of England had almost doubled overnight.

By midday on 19 October, only nine of his ships had managed to clear the harbour.

They were complemented by another twenty-nine ships of the line, five frigates and two brigs – a total of forty vessels in all.

He would be followed by Vice-Admiral Honoré Ganteaume with six frigates and twenty-one ships

The enemy ships in her path included the Santissima Trinidad, the Redoutable and the Bucentaure,

Then seven or eight French and Spanish ships opened up together

With hindsight, Napoleon might have done better to build steam ships

But the French still thought in terms of wooden ships and sail, as did the English across the Channel.

Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.

Only in 1795 did the Royal Navy heed decades of advice and begin enforcing the consumption of lime juice on its ships (giving rise to the term "limey").

She tried to keep her smile from stretching too wide. It was daylight, and their ships weren't passing. They were standing face to face—

Drama is to life what ships are to the sea. A means to traverse it. To plumb its depths, breadth and beauty.

Oceans, emotions, ships, ships, and other relationships, keep us going through the fog and wandering mist. What is it that I missed?

squadron. If the invaders aren't stopped here, they'll keep on coming after us. Sure we can run, but they'll catch us, if not out in the hinterlands than back at Tranquillity, or even Earth if you want to run that far. But not me. Everyone has to make a stand eventually, and mine is right here. I'm going to find a base and let the ships know.

Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.

Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”