With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.