Navy
A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.
The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy.
The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy.
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Navy Quotations
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham Bell
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Thomas B. Macaulay
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
Dick Gregory
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.
Sean Connery
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
James A. Michener
Pink is the navy blue of India.
Diana Vreeland
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
Shimon Peres
The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
Hideki Tojo
Navy Translations
navy in Dutch is marine, zeemacht
navy in French is marine
navy in German is Schiffahrt, Kriegsmarine
navy in Italian is marina
navy in Portuguese is marinha
navy in Spanish is marina
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