Can you ring and have me switched on to the Army and Navy Club?
All the sets of harness were made in the navy workshops, and after their long and hard use they are as good as ever.
We had six three-man tents, all made in the navy workshops.
The navy of these States is too feeble at present for an immediate war with England, which they seem to apprehend must take place upon their joining the neutral confederation.
All this time her navy was neglected, and the mischiefs she has suffered are not the only ones consequent upon her tardiness and inactivity.
Mr Bickersdyke, having said some nasty things about Free Trade and the Alien Immigrant, turned to the Needs of the Navy and the necessity of increasing the fleet at all costs.
How,' asked Psmith, 'do you propose to strengthen the Navy by burning boats?
He came of a stanchnavy family; his grandfather and his father had been navy officers before him; the spirit of service to his country was in his blood.
Captain Booth sprawled inside; grabbed the lieutenant's one navy revolver, and with his own two tumbled over the seat and dived to the pucker-hole at the rear end, to fight the Indians off.
You know the navymust be the aggressive force, and we have yet to see an American ship afloat in these waters.
It is not so commonly known that in the last ten years the cost of army andnavy has increased much more rapidly in Great Britain than in any country of the Continent.
The French navy dwindled, and trade was at a standstill.
It will be remembered that Queen Victoria was carried to her grave on a gun-carriage like an officer, because as Queen of England and Empress of India she was head of the British army and of the greatest navyin the world.
They could not even, except temporarily, keep the war away from the territory of the seceding States, every one of which had a sea-door open to the invasion of an enemy who controlled the entire navy and shipping of the country.
In his annual message in 1797, he spoke of "a navy as next to the militia the natural defence of the United States.
Place your Navy Department under an able and spirited administration; cashier every officer who strikes his flag; and you will soon have a good account of your navy.
To build a navywas the advice of our venerable sage.
At the close of 1800 the navyhad made great progress; and the Secretary of the Navy, Hon.
Officers of the United States navy report the same fish substantially which Cook reported, as far north as the Frozen Ocean.
I am sure you will enjoy a trip with me to Vallejo and Uncle Sam's great navy yard, adjacent to it.
Surely the way of the transgressor is hard, and especially so with the violator of Uncle Sam's rigid army and navyrules and regulations.
The creation of the English navy is generally credited either to King Alfred or to Henry VIII.
None the less, the Dutch navy remains a small navy quite overshadowed by the immense organizations of the present age, and without any possible chance of competing with them.
The Dutch navy might be correctly described as a good little one, quite equal to the everyday work required of it, but not of the size or standard to play an ambitious rôle.
It is generally said, perhaps unjustly, that the pick of the manhood of Holland joins the navy in preference to the army.
Holland, with the finest material for manning a navy of any Continental State, can be no exception to the general rule.
In its first great triumph the English navy had established the Freedom of the Seas, of which it has ever since been the chief defender.
In a lame and incompetent way the Chinese government was attempting to organise its army on the European model, and to create a navy after the European style.
It will be manned during the Exhibition by officers and men detailed by the Navy Department who will give boat, torpedo, and gun drills and maintain the discipline and mode of life to be observed on the real vessels of the Navy.
Hadn’t we organized a navy out of nothing, armed it splendidly, and done with it whatever was desirable that the naval power of the country should attempt?
Nothing would please me more than to be able to infuse a patriotic spirit into the American people--make them feel that they have a flag and need a navy to protect it.
Yet the valuable navy yard at Norfolk fell into the hands of the Confederates, and the capture of Washington was only averted by a hasty movement of the troops.
The navy of the United States was in no condition to cope with that of England; the regular army numbered less than seven thousand men, and the other requisites of war were as poorly provided for.
We had the nucleus of a navy and army from which a peace establishment unequalled by any on the face of the earth might have been selected.
We tried to sell her last year, but they have been selling so many ships out of thenavy that we could not get anything of a price for her; but as she was well insured, I shall get a handier craft next time.
You see the three officers have all served in our navyas well as the men, and we have just the same discipline as there would be in a king's ship.
The highness-and-mightiness of a captain in His Majesty's navyis something that borders on the omnipotent.
After that you can wander about for a bit and see the world, and you will see as much of it in six months that way as in twice as many years were you in the navy in these times of peace.
The officers had only to exchange their navy buttons for others with an anchor to be complete; Horace had donned similar attire.
The sea was a stirring life, then; and even had you only gone into the navy for a few years you would have seen lots of service, and might have distinguished yourself.
I must confess that since I have been in the navy that wish has been very seldom gratified.
The Navy was a rough school then, and the officers mainly came from a very different class to that from which they are now recruited.
And the men of the Navy have an equally high opinion of those law bushmen whom they set down on that narrow strip of bullet-swept beach.
He was puzzled to know how Australia came by a navy; he had seen references to an Australian navy before, but had always supposed that a misprint had been made for "Austrian navy.
For Australians not the least proud of the memories of the first engagement fought by their navy will ever be that silent greeting of the returning conqueror.
The Navy of Britain had always been justly the Briton's pride.
Many of them were young Australians, members of the newest navy in the world, and determined that in the first important action fought by that navy all concerned should do it credit.
That pride and that interest should now be extended to embrace the Navy of the Empire.
His wonder is so far excusable that the first ship of that navy was only launched as recently as 1911, when the battle cruiser Australia left the stocks in the yards of Messrs.
For this splendid record the greatest credit is due to the Navy men, of whom the Australasians all speak as they would of the greatest heroes on earth.
The other units of the navy are of even later construction.
The scorching decks were strewn with dead and wounded sailors, hapless victims to a tradition the Kaiser has sought to impose upon a navy that has no traditions of its own making.
A tall, sandy-haired man in the uniform of the Space Navy came over.
I gathered a few things together, mostly small personal items, and all the microfilms that I could find on New Texas, then got aboard the Space Navy cutter that was waiting to take me to the ship.
Gglafrr Vuvuvu's smile wavered a little at the oblique reference to the couple of trouncings our Space Navy had administered to z'Srauff ships in the past.
I was pretty sure that the z'Srauff was getting ready for a sneak attack on New Texas, and, as Solar League Ambassador, I of course had the right to call on the Space Navy for any amount of armed protection.
Proceedings of the Naval Court Martial in the Case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a Commander in the Navy of the United States, etc.
After quitting the navy Cooper led for a long time a somewhat unsettled life.
Cooper's interest in the navy led him also to write a series of lives of officers who had been prominent in its history.
From officers of the navy who had shared in the actions described he gathered much information which they alone were able to communicate.
After leaving the navy he had become one of the owners of a whaling vessel, and in it had made one or two voyages to Newport.
The History of the Navy of the United States of America.
While in the navy he was traveling in the wilderness bordering upon the Ontario.
He talked with officers of the navy who held views opposed to his own; though he said afterward he rarely found that they knew anything about the matter beyond common report.
Davis, congratulated the navy on now having a work which gave a true and faithful report of the battle of Lake Erie, and stigmatized Cooper's account as false in spirit, statement, and comment.
His connection with the navy had also led him to be keenly sensitive to the injustice and indignities connected with the impressment of seamen.
History of the Navy of the United States of America.
But it also gave rise to a controversy which stretched over a longer period and surpassed, in the bitter feelings it aroused, any of the wars in which the navy itself had ever been engaged.
Besides this, they carried in their belts navyor army pistols, which they used most dexterously and efficiently in mounted contests with the enemy.
A general mix-up fight was had, our men using their navy pistols and outfighting the Yankees with sabers.
Thus the Japanese navy is not wholly after the English system, or the American, or the French, or the German system.
In 1871 the Japanese government employed a number of English officers, and almost wholly reconstructed her navy according to the English system.
They say the only defence against invasion is the Navy and that half a million spent on the Navy is worth untold millions chucked away on this 'Nation in Arms' shout.
In April the Germans whack up their Navy Law Amendment, twelve more big ships.
Why are they stuck up with this rot about defending their shores when they can see for themselves that only the Navy can defend their shores?
Old Haldane over in Germany in February for 'unofficial discussions', Churchill threatening two keels to one if the German Navy law is exceeded.
