Quote by M. Kei

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

— Horatio Nelson

“The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their hackles and…

— Knut Hamsun

“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden…

— Louis Nowra

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

— John Piper

“Their ships were steeds, and they rode the waves like jennets.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“a Marine company or two had less tactical value than a cruiser, let alone a battleship.”

— C.J. Carella

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed…

— Iain M. Banks

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There are many so-called glorious and invincible ships now rotting beneath the oceans! Most of them – with high conceit – had thought that…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“There were no romantic ships passing in the night. It was more like dinghies in the dark: Awkward, slow and hard to handle, quickly…

— Candace Vianna

“The lights of many battleships drifting like water jewels upon the dark Hudson...”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald