 Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.  Fleet Tactics Under Steam - Page 5by Foxhall Alexander Parker - 1870 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...be that of a close and decisive action, will supply any deficiency of signals, and act accordingly. In case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can do wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." One of the last orders of this admirable man... | |
 | John Holland Rose - Great Britain - 1927 - 226 pages
...Nelson's Trafalgar Memorandum of October 9, 1805 : " In case signals can neither be seen nor perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." 1 Such were also the tactics of Rodney, Howe, and Hood. But the monster gun, as also the torpedo, render... | |
 | Roald Kverndal - California - 1986 - 944 pages
...395; cf. pp. 423-5. PLBUS Appeal 1829, p. 88. Matthews 191 1, pp. 188-9. Cf. Lord Nelson's advice: "No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy" (Mathew 1943, p. 36). 44. Smith was not bereft of self-criticism (NSM 1833, pp. 198-9, p. 472). But... | |
 | David Jablonsky - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 264 pages
...desire to engage the enemy, and Churchill often quoted Nelson's Trafalgar memorandum in this regard: "No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy."256 The man of action, in other words, could still play a part in modern conflict. Emotions,... | |
 | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Fiction - 1989 - 452 pages
...must look for instructions to its own commander; but in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy. And finally, gentlemen, need I say that the battle cannot be considered to be over so long as a single... | |
 | Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert - World War, 1939-1945 - 1993 - 1898 pages
...was an apostle of the offensive. Time and again he would quote from Nelson's Trafalgar memorandum:1 'No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.' He made a practice of bombarding commanders with telegrams on every kind of topic, many of which might... | |
 | Gérard Chaliand - History - 1994 - 1126 pages
...their particular Line as their rallying point. But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood no Captain can do very wrong if he places his Ship alongside that of an Enemy. . . . DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852) Arthur Wellesley, subsequently first duke of Wellington, served... | |
 | David Jablonsky - Militarism - 1994 - 344 pages
...engage the enemy; and the British leader often quoted Nelson's Trafalgar memorandum in this regard: "No Captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy."191 Nevertheless. Churchill was never so dominant. nor dared to be. as popular opinion imagined... | |
 | History - 2001 - 596 pages
...up the attitudes of early-nineteenth-century war is Horatio Nelson's (qv ! order at Trafalgar (qv (: "No Captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." In the nineteenth century, interpreters of Napoleon concluded that the moral advantage of the offensive... | |
 | David Davies - First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797 - 1997 - 218 pages
...intentions in some detail, his memorandum said: But in case signals can neither be seen nor perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy. This was sublime. One of the worst states an officer can be in is to be surrounded by the confusion... | |
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