Quotes About Fleet

Yo sostenía que nuestro margen en barcos de línea, a los que había que añadir los cuatro acorazados del nuevo programa, nos aseguraría una adecuada superioridad para 1912, el llamado, por aquel entonces, «año peligroso».

Picture the east Aegean sea by night, And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 men Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

My one fear which I expressed to the President is that by reducing the fleet in Hawaii we have sent a signal to the Japanese that we are not as prepared to meet their threats as we once were. -Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander US Pacific Fleet

After that, I'll release it to every business correspondent in Fleet Street.

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

The message she'd just ordered Webster to send and Venizelos to relay to Manticore was never sent in drills, not even in the most intense or realistic Fleet maneuvers. Case Zulu had one meaning, and one only: Invasion Imminent.

She'd headed the terraforming teams, and it was her leadership which had carried the task through to success. She and her people, watched over by Kau-yung's flagship, TFNS Gulliver, had battled the planet into submission while most of the colony fleet had waited, motionless, holding station in the depths of interstellar space, light-years from the nearest star.

and a cold, ugly wave of fear came with the news. Not panic, perhaps, because every single member of the murdered Federation's final fleet had known in his heart of hearts that this moment would come.

Jesus Christ and General Jackson, this is the hottest potato they've ever handed me!" - Admiral "Bull" Halsey upon receiving instructions to take the Pacific Fleet and defend Guadalcanal at all costs.

It appeared that OP-20-G analysts were nourishing King's anxieties by sending him cherry-picked data that could be interpreted as pointing to such attacks. The men who had King's ear were unduly alarmist, and their impulsive theories might incite the fleet to chase its own tail.

By morning an immense fleet of five thousand ships would stand off the invasion beaches of Normandy.

the battlecruiser HMS Hood, which at 860 feet was the pride of the fleet. While her eight 15-inch guns were the largest then afloat, her Achilles' heel was her relatively thin armor, which made her more vulnerable than any battleship.

Last night was remarkably clear. I looked up at the sky to find the Argo. I'm terrible at constellations. I can never make out any of them except for Orion and his belt. But the longer I stared, the more the sky seemed like an ocean, and then I saw an entire fleet of ships made of stars. A flotilla was anchored at the moon, while others were casting off. I imagined we were on one of those ships, sailing on moonlight.

Master carpenters were well paid, at 7 shillings a week. They were an essential part of Edward III's invasion fleet in 1346. He enlisted forty of them, ready to construct wooden towers and other engines of war for use in sieges, and to repair or build bridges that the enemy might destroy on his route across France, just as the Royal Engineers built Bailey bridges during the Allied invasion of France in the Second World War.

Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her mind from grief, and though he sighed his heart out, shaken still with love if her, yet took the course heaven gave him and turned back to the fleet.

I have one ship and they call me a pirate. You have a fleet and they call you an Emperor. I can't remember who said it.

Two admirals, both on a desperate chase. One after a Frenchman's fleet—and the other, after a Pirate Queen's heart.

They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.

ALLIANCE FLEET ISSUE, TAPE, DUCT, MULTIPURPOSE, TWENTY COUNT (NOT FOR USE ON DUCTS).

Bothwell, an expert seaman, escaped with three of his ships.