Always Quote by William Falconer

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

— Chester W. Nimitz

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

— Ambrose Bierce

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her…

— Charles Dickens

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too…

— William Bligh

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

— Joseph Conrad

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

— Alphonse Karr

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

— Blaise Pascal

One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the…

— Joseph Conrad

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

— William Petty

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

— George Farquhar

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed…

— Joseph C. Lincoln

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

— William Falconer