Quotes About Naval

Warships had brass battering rams on their prows, and the usual tactic was to ram the side of an enemy ship.

Romans tended to fight sea battles as if they were on land.

the most important development by far was the defection of Sextus' admiral Menodorus

At daybreak, as he looked out over the sea, his gaze was met by ships that had been set on fire

Sextus was safely inside the harbor of Messana;

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.

If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

troops. Not only did he destroy the pirates' bases

This meant there was nothing the Spartans could do to prevent their enemies from being supplied by sea.

if the Persian fleet was left intact to sail round and take the infantrymen from the rear.

In early April, while the big guns were busy pounding the land walls, Mehmet began to deploy the fleet, his other new weapon, for the first time.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

you cannot operate on the sea during war unless you have command of the sea, the air above it, and the depths beneath it.

were the U-boat pens and other naval facilities at a number of locations in France, as well as V-weapon sites. However, the Atlantic Wall formed a major part of the Organization Todt's construction work and probably amounted to about 65 per cent of the work it carried out in the West. It was, indeed, a monumental project, both literally and figuratively. Nevertheless, describing

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.

John Atkins, the naval surgeon, spoke of the transition from privateer to pirate as going from "plundering for others, to do it for themselves.

The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later

The lack of attention given to anti-submarine warfare is surprising as all five Washington navies were convinced, following the devastating U-boat campaign of 1917–18, that the submarine had now 'come of age' and was a threat to be taken seriously.

German U-boats were poised to impose a blockade of the British Isles that threatened that island nation with starvation as well as defeat.

An Anglo-German clash was not preordained; but a German decision to launch a naval arms race was the one thing most likely to bring one about.

He soon made himself deeply disliked by many naval officers by his energetic reforming and general meddling, although this was largely to his credit. He wanted to improve the conditions of ordinary seamen, and to increase their pay for the first time since the early days of Victoria's reign, and at the other end he created a naval staff. 'I knew thoroughly the current

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.