Tom Holland Quotes

Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.

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

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.