Quotes About Ship

Serrano had no time to reef the sails. Fierce seas pounded the ship

the storm gathered force, and the winds pushed the helpless ship toward the rocky coast

nightmare as razor-sharp rocks sawed into her hull, and she began taking on water.

the boatswain, or contramaestre; the boatswain's mate; and the alguacil.

all the men aboard ship survived, but once they had given thanks to the Lord

During a watch, a ship's boy supervised the half-hourglass

On April 4, 1581, almost seven months after his return, she strode onto the deck of the Golden Hind at Deptford

Her Majesty dined on board, and after dinner conferred the honour of knighthood on the captain.

On March 1, 1579, Drake caught sight of the Spanish treasure ship

On April 6, after more than three months of repairs, she finally weighed anchor and unfurled her sails. The ship carried a full load of spices, one thousand quintals of cloves—fifty tons!—more than enough to justify the expense of the entire voyage.

Later, an English ship caught sight of the abandoned beasts swimming in the dark green sea on a journey to oblivion.

The seamen said it blew great guns.

Four of the ship's lifeboats were virtually useless because of their position alone. They were the first two forward on either side. In an emergency lowering, they would come down outside the enclosed promenade deck. It might well be impossible, during an emergency, to open the heavy glass windows in order to get into the boats.

The ship's officers were in a substantially higher bracket. First Officer Warms earned $180 a month; Captain Wilmott, the princely sum of $300 a month. Chief Engineer Eban Abbott's paycheck was $220 a month. For that salary Abbott was expected to keep the engines running smoothly, and play his part in entertaining the passengers, particularly the women on board.

The Morro Castle traveled 3.1 miles head on into the storm at a speed of 18.8 knots for over ten minutes. In that time, the wind, gusting at over 20 knots, had acted as a giant bellows, fanning and speeding the flames the length of the ship.

How this extraordinary situation could possibly have gone undetected can be explained in part by the fact that the required annual inspection of the ship had been carried out by government inspectors on May 16, 1934, a month before Captain Wilmott issued his order. The inspectors concluded that the Morro Castle still had the right to "the highest classification" of the American Bureau of Shipping.

Dr. Cochrane and his sister were alone on the sun deck watching the last hold being filled with a cargo of salted hides. The stench was awful.

He had been instructed that once the hold with the cargo of skins was sealed, the ship's smoke-detecting system was to be turned off and was to remain switched off until the last passenger had disembarked in New York.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.

He turned his face over a shoulder, rere regardant. Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship.

Pirates of the Caribbean

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.