The phrase Imperial Navy may refer to:
- The Austro-Hungarian Navy
- The German Navy between 1872 and 1918
- The Imperial Japanese Navy from 1869 until 1947
- The Imperial Navy of Imperial Qing government
- The Imperial Navy from the fictional Star Wars universe.
- The Imperial Navy from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
- In addition, many other Science Fiction Space Empires have Imperial Navies of various power and benevolence/malevolence.
Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or navy:
“If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)