Quotes About Warship

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

But the wireless, asked Momulla. What has the wireless to do with our remaining here? Oh yes, replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships.

Ever since the Renaissance, the Italian engineering mind has always had a special capacity for viewing a project with a fresh and practical artistry. The Italian talent for stripping down to bare essentials the elements of compromise, which is the heart of all creative design, has never been surpassed; and it was desperately needed to break clear from the archaic form of warship architecture that had lingered on for a quarter of a century.

I am very proud to be taking command of a Type 23 frigate, which is an extremely flexible warship, and I'm looking forward to taking HMS Portland on operations with a professional and focused team.

USS Henry Gibbons.

Her awards included not only honors from the US Navy – a Presidential Unit Citation, a Navy Unit Commendation and 20 battle stars for her flag – but also a rare honor from the Royal Navy. She became, when she stopped at Southampton in November 1945, the only non-Royal Navy warship ever awarded an Admiralty Pennant.

would have breached a fundamental maritime code, the cruiser rules, or prize law, established in the nineteenth century to govern warfare against civilian shipping. Obeyed ever since by all seagoing powers, the rules held that a warship could stop a merchant vessel and search it but had to keep its crew safe and bring the ship to a nearby port, where a "prize court" would determine its fate. The rules forbade attacks against passenger vessels.

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking.

Yes, Prime Minister," said MacArthur, "it's a warship. Sticking out of a mountain, thousands of feet above sea level." Curtin

for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed all those centuries, had somehow not yet fully woken up, and events within its sleek hull still moved to another, slower tempo, made half of dreams.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

The sleek warship took on her guns at a deserted Bahamian Cay and began her fearsome career as the Florida. She destroyed thirty-eight American merchant vessels before the Union navy captured her by a subterfuge in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil, in October 1864.

On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.

She flipped through the pages, noting the meaning of each flag even as another gun poked out of the warship's sides . . . and another. And closed the book with a furious snap. "What's he saying, Captain? What's he saying?" She stared at the big ship, the colorful array of flags waving in the wind. "He says," she muttered, on a dark little laugh, "that if I so much as even think of sailing off, he'll blow us out of the water.

One of them was a three-decker,

Calder's flagship was the ninety-gun Prince of Wales.

The Royal Sovereign carried straight on and just squeezed through, almost shaving the Santa Ana's stern

Pride of place went to the Santissima Trinidad, at four decks and 140 guns the biggest warship in the world.