Naval Tactics Quotes

There is not a ship in our navy that can defend us against a first class enemy.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.

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

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

All Athenians should leave Athens …. The men should report to the ships at Salamis.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Kunjali Marakkar is one of the first naval commanders of Kerala. He was an expert at his craft.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

Battleships are cheaper than battles.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.