Drama Quote by Michael G. Kramer

“Vice-Admiral Scheer’s own confidential report to Wilhelm II. Here he made the tendentious, and highly questionable, assertion that “even the most successful outcome of…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“So you’re ex-Royal Navy, right?’ He tensed. ‘How do you know that?’ Lucy pointed at his arm. ‘Cabot wristwatch. It’s a dead giveaway.’ Marc…

— James Swallow

When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to…

— Nevil Shute

“Even when the British took part in these wars, they fought on other people's territory or at sea.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Now that war was spilling over into different continents, the resulting dispersal of Britain’s naval resources left traditional European frontier sites like Menorca more…

— Linda Colley

“The second HMS Warspite (also spelt Warspight)”

— Iain Ballantyne

“From time to time the German U-boat commanders have tried their best to behave with humanity. We have seen them give good warning and…

— Winston S. Churchill

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean…

— John Paul Jones

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

— Ernest Bevin

“World War II sea mines,”

— Andy Griffiths

“Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet’s defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won’t go on one side…

— Patrick Robinson

(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