Naval History Quotes

The culminating manifestation of naval force in the history of the world.

I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.

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.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

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

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

I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

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

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

I'd been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I'd always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start reading, I thought now this is interesting, you know, the hows of what happened, the actual - the actual sinking of the ship.

You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

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

It is a golden chapter in the history of India's maritime security. May INS Vikramaditya, imbibe the radiance of the sun and confidence of victory in each one of us.

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.