My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.
I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
The Navy is very old and very wise.
I grew up in a Navy family.
Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!
I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.
The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.
