Maritime Navigation Quotes

The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

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

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

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

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

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

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 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.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

I did 510 days SEAL training.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

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.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

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

Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.