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Quotes About Ship

Outside this planking, to keep her from being chafed by the ice
~ Alfred Lansing
there was a sheathing from stem to stern of greenheart, a wood so heavy it weighs more than solid iron
~ Alfred Lansing
They were up at six the following morning, November 5, and nearly everyone returned to the ship.
~ Alfred Lansing
a ship that Christensen had ordered built to carry polar-bear hunting parties to the Arctic
~ Alfred Lansing
The final selling price of $67,000 was less than Christensen had paid to have the ship built
~ Alfred Lansing
The Caird's bow was brought up into the wind, and the long wait for daybreak was begun.
~ Alfred Lansing
her hull was altogether too rounded for most of those on board her.
~ Alfred Lansing
At noon they were almost abeam of Cape Demidov once more
~ Alfred Lansing
The floe which had been jammed under the ship's starboard side since July broke free on October 14
~ Alfred Lansing
She sailed from London's East India Docks on August 1.
~ Alfred Lansing
Then they came about once more onto the starboard tack. This time she just managed to slip through.
~ Alfred Lansing
Why water more wine in the great bowl? Why do you drown your gullet in grape? I cannot let you spill out your life on song and drink. Let us go to sea, and not let the wintry calm of morning slip by as a drunken sleep. Had we boarded at dawn, seized rudder and spun the flapping crossjack into the wind, we would be happy now, happy as swimming in grape. But you draped a lazy arm on my shoulder, saying: 'Sir, a pillow, your singing does not lead me to ships'.
~ Alkaios
I have chosen not to name any particular ship because its identity is not relevant to my story. The fact is that a ship was there. And for whatever reason, that ship did nothing.
~ Allan Wolf
Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.
~ Ally Carter
La vieillesse est un naufrage. Mais je n'ai pas envie de voir couler le bateau.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
~ Davy Jones
I dropped out of college and worked on a cruise ship for a time.
~ Randy Rainbow
This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?
~ William Kidd
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
~ John Masefield
Jonsen shuffled rapidly up and down the deck like a shuttle, passing his woof backwards and forwards through the real business of the ship.
~ Richard Hughes
Ten minutes later, after we had gathered everyone in the main cabin, I had nine volunteers to stay in the alien ship while the shuttle took the old woman back to the Argonos; ten, including me. That was everyone. We would all stay.   "I
~ Richard Paul Russo
Before that, there was no official ship History. The only official records were the ship's logs." He sighed heavily, shaking his head. "But they were all destroyed. Which is why the History was begun, to provide an alternate
~ Richard Paul Russo
It was like the engineer had broken some code of the sea that said you must assist pirates in taking over your ship.
~ Richard Phillips
In the blink of an eye, the ship dropped out of faster than light travel and came to an almost dead stop five hundred meters from the California.
~ Richard Turner