Quotes About Fleet

The army of the sea shall stand before the city, then shall go away for a passage that shall not be very long, as a great prey of citizens shall be holding the ground. The fleet returns. The great emblem recovered.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.

Beneath us lie the lights of the herring fleet. The cliffs vanish. Rippling small, rippling grey, innumerable waves spread beneath us. I touch nothing. I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling me over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

orders that became the most controversial aspect of the entire expedition—to serve as the inspector general of the fleet

equipped with crew, food, and artillery, to wit that the said ships are to go supplied for two years

With the exception of Santiago, a caravel, the ships were all classified as naos, a term that simply meant ships.

After several months at sea, the five ships of the Armada

The food represented a considerable investment: 1,252,909 maravedís, nearly as much as the cost of the entire fleet

Disputes over the crew's composition and pay bedeviled Magellan until the moment of the fleet's departure from Seville.

On the day before the fleet's departure from Seville, August 9, 1519, Magellan was summoned from his frantic last-minute

because the water was deep and blue and chilly. The men of the fleet might have seen whales because this was the principal breeding site

Unwilling to commit the entire fleet to the river, he dispatched Santiago, the smallest ship

The fleet's barber was named Hernando Bustamente, who shipped out aboard Concepción

At the time, England's tiny navy, hardly more than twenty vessels

This slender store of medical supplies and equipment would have to serve the needs of 260 men of the fleet in all climates and conditions for several years.

Hugging the coast, the fleet spent the last week of February sailing west toward Bahía Blanca

13, 1519, the fleet entered the lush and gorgeous Bay of Saint Lucy and approached the mouth of the River of January—Rio de Janeiro.

His surmise proved correct and saved the fleet days of aimless investigation.

A week after leaving Seville, the fleet reached the snug coastal town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda

more remarkable, each of these ghostly personages was accorded a share of the fleet's profits in return for divine protection; the

the strait, he argued, they should sail back to Spain to assemble a better-equipped fleet.

Magellan led a fleet of five little ships and 258 sailors from a variety of nations