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“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country…

— Joseph Conrad

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water…

— William Golding

“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their…

— Joseph Conrad

“there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as…

— Joseph Conrad

...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...

— Joseph Conrad

“...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself...”

— Joseph Conrad

“Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.”

— Joseph Wheelan

“The Seaman’s Practice,”

— Bill Bryson

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and…

— Herman Melville

“The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who, at the…

— Neil Gaiman

“no man who rises to command of a United States naval ship can possibly be a coward. And”

— Herman Wouk

“Fisher said, “to be a good admiral, a man does not need to be a good sailor. That’s a common mistake. He needs good…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon