No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.
There can be only one Captain to a ship.