Ship Maintenance Quotes

The Jones Act is an important tool to maintain Northeast Florida's domestic ship repair industry, which is so vital to our Navy and national security.

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

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

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

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

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

A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and knowing what each one of those does, it takes a long time, and that's why you have these cabin boys that start on the ship, and they learn throughout the years, and that's why it takes so long to captain one.

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

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

A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these very old, aging, aging ships. They're old. They're tired.