ships

Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.

It__ a general rule _ a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had to respond to distress calls. Unless of course it places their own lives in danger. Bearing this thought in mind, as you can probably tell by my writing, my fingers are beginning to tremble slightly.

Maria didn__ fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.

SS Seawise GiantSeawise GiantOrdered in 1974 and delivered in 1979, the longest ship ever built was the supertanker Seawise Giant. Larger than the largest Cruise Ship afloat, the Oasis of the Seas, which is 1,186 feet long. She was over 1,504 feet long and weighed in at 260,941 gross tons. Having a beam of 220 feet and drawing 79 feet of water, she was so large that she couldn't navigate through the Panama Canal the Suez Canal or even the English Channel. After having been sunk during the 1980 -1988 Iran__raq War she was raised, renamed a few times and used for oil storage until she was ultimately scrapped in India, in 2010.Read __he Exciting Story of Cuba_ by Captain Hank Bracker

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)

Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

Ships that pass in the night.

There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart.

Don't give up the ship!

They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters.

Ships are but boards sailors but men.

Then on the River I saw the dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai, whose great prow lifted grey into the air above the River of Silence. Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets' fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people's hopes. Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men's fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy__ear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC