Battle Quote by William Falconer

“But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that…

— Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson

“that the shaky premiss on which British fleets had, for two generations, been practised and led – the assumption that tactical signals could be…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

— Horatio Nelson

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

— Anonymous

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

— Helmut Schmidt

“I’ve never sailed on HMS Penultimate, and as luck would have it she has the finest reputation for turn of speed.”    “Is that…

— Francine Howarth

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

— Anonymous

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

— Dar Williams

(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

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

— Thomas Aquinas