Quote by Susanna Clarke

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

— Diana Gabaldon

“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

“Without the men, ships are nothing but empty shells of metal. It’s the men who give the ship life, who turn it from a…

— Douglas Mumphrey

“What was it the old salts use to say about who and what conquered the seven seas? Iron men and wooden ships, not wooden…

— Robert Zubrin

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

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“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 elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.”

— Michael Chabon

“Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.”

— John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today”

— Anonymous

“The Spanish fleet was beautiful and terrifying. The great battleships were clouds of sail scudding before the wind while their xebecs and frigates ran…

— M. Kei

“Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me.”

— Julie-Anne

“Whoever had designed her loved ships and knew the sea: he had designed her with his heart.”

— M. Kei