William Bligh Quotes

On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.

I'll stick to building ships.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

It's not a model if it's full-scale, Tomkinson, it's an icebreaker.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

I love the story behind the Vasa Museum: in the 17th century, the Swedish king was trying to make a statement by building a huge ship that would sail around Europe carrying the Swedish flag and proving that we were a force to be reckoned with, and basically, the ship was top-heavy, and so it went 300 or so yards and sank.

I'd always been interested in maritime history, especially the great liners. I'd have done a book about the Titanic if it hadn't already been done to death by James Cameron and Celine Dion.

Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.

Everybody has to build double-hull tankers, but charterers don't want to pay for the extra costs.

Since the littoral combat ship plays a vital role, we want to make sure we're buying the correct version.

A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.