Quotes about Admiral

To Admiral Cunningham it was against all tradition to abandon the Army in such a crisis. He declared, "It takes the Navy three years to build a new ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.

The next part of this memorable trip took us to the home of Mrs. Buchanan, the widow of Admiral Buchanan, one of the two only living daughters of old Governor Lloyd, and here my reception was as kindly as that received at the Great House

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps over the burning marle.