"Naval officer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has a change when he leaves the trench for his billet, there is none for the naval officer, who, unlike the army officer, is Spartan-bred to confinement. The army pays its daily toll of casualties; it lies cramped in dug-outs, not knowing what minute extinction may come. The Grand Fleet has its usual comforts; it ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... "Naval Officer's (Minesweeping) Wife would be grateful for the opportunity of purchasing a Baby's Layette of good quality at a very ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 10, 1917 • Various
... German property, and the French have a method of procedure that is peculiarly their own. This is what happened, according to the narrative of a young naval officer who was ...
— Fighting France • Stephane Lauzanne
... duke of Portland, I carried an order to the governor of New South Wales to place the brig Lady Nelson under my command, on arriving at Port Jackson; and also one from the Admiralty, directing the governor, in his quality of senior naval officer, not to take the Investigator from the purposes of the voyage; but to assist me with all the means in his power to ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... them to places of trust. Honors are won, not bought. Every step up, from midshipman to admiral, must be the result of honorable service, and actual proficiency both in the theory and practice of a sailor's profession. The modern French naval officer is master of his business, fit to compete with the best skill of the best maritime races. Then the sailors themselves are trained. Even in time of peace, twenty-five thousand are kept in service. Gathered on board great experimental fleets, officers ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various
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