Naval Command Quotes

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

I am having immense fun running the Navy.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

With Freedom's lion-banner Britannia rules the waves.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

The tradition of our Navy mandates that senior officials bear the ultimate responsibility for their command.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

Damn the torpedoes [i.e. mines]. Full speed ahead!

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

Admiral General Gingrich

I am very proud to be taking command of a Type 23 frigate, which is an extremely flexible warship, and I'm looking forward to taking HMS Portland on operations with a professional and focused team.

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.