Quotes About Fleet

The attackers rounded off their successful mission by destroying the viking fleet,

The Prime Minister's meaning was clear enough: the Fleet Train was the horse, and the fighting Fleet the cart. They must be kept in their proper order. As the size of the horse was fixed, it was pointless to plan an ambitious cart.

The sailors of the Grand Fleet were much less polite. They called Courageous and Glorious the Outrageous and the Uproarious. The two sister ships and Furious were known as Helpless, Hopeless and Useless.

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.

Livy tells how in 214 BCE individual Romans were called upon to pay directly to man the fleet: a nice indication of the patriotism that surrounded the war effort, of the emptiness of the public treasury, but also of the cash that there still was in private hands, despite the crisis.

Nimitz remarked that when he sent Spruance out with the fleet, "he was always sure286 he would bring it home; when he sent Halsey out, he did not know precisely what was going to happen." Halsey's boldness was in doubt seldom, his judgement and intellect often.

When the mass migration of 1630 did take place, it was the well-organized John Winthrop who led a fleet of eleven ships, loaded with seven hundred passengers and livestock, and bearing a clear objective to plant a permanent community.

One of them was a three-decker,

So many were murdered that leave was cancelled and Frenchmen from the fleet were no longer allowed on shore.

the number of capital ships available for the invasion of England had almost doubled overnight.

Addressed to the entire British fleet,

All of Cadiz turned out to watch the fleet go.

They were complemented by another twenty-nine ships of the line, five frigates and two brigs – a total of forty vessels in all.

Shortly before 7 p.m., Captain Jean Lucas of the Redoutable caught his first glimpse of Nelson's fleet to starboard:

Villeneuve didn't hesitate. Gravina was right. The whole fleet must form line of battle at once,

The fleet lost momentum and for several vital days lay almost becalmed, scarcely moving at all.

He would be followed by Vice-Admiral Honoré Ganteaume with six frigates and twenty-one ships

Nelson's fleet had been spotted off the Spanish coast, barring the way to the Atlantic.

Ganteaume had twenty-one fighting ships under his command, but trained crews for only seven.

Then seven or eight French and Spanish ships opened up together

The Canopus was on her way back from Gibraltar with 300 tons of water for Nelson's fleet.

The whole enterprise had been doomed from the start, right from the day the French fleet left Toulon six months earlier.

So an invasion fleet it was, and the work continued

the French and Spanish fleets were moving hurriedly to form a line of battle in the dark.