I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

There can be no place for self entirely

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.