German song

" 'Overboard

Into the tumbling billows of the main.

Lord, Lord! me thought, what pain it was to drown!

What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

Me thought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;

Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon. . . ."

Richard the III

Act I, Sc IV

Shakespeare

"Black night crowded close around the wounded ship, a backdrop to a Greek tragedy. Leaping red flames painted crazy shadows against the sky and exploding ammunition rocketed toward the stars. "

Arnold S. Lott Lt. Commander USN

"For battles on sea are more dangerous and fiercer than battles by land, for on the sea there is no recoiling or fleeing."

Froissart 1338

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