Fourth Sea Lord
The Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies was formerly one of the Naval Lords and members of the Board of Admiralty which controlled the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
Read more about Fourth Sea Lord: History, Fourth Naval Lords 1830-1868, Junior Naval Lords 1868-1904, Fourth Sea Lords 1904–1964, Chiefs of Fleet Support 1964–2007, Chiefs of Materiel (Fleet) 2007 – Present
Famous quotes containing the words sea lord, fourth, sea and/or lord:
“Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)
“‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
“Wild roses, at your back porch, break their blood,
And bud to test surprises of sea air,”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)
“Superior people remain kind and just even in poverty, but lowly people who become rich lord it over others.”
—Chinese proverb.