Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.
In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.
The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
I grew up in a Navy family.
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
