Royal Naval College may refer to:
- Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth (1733–1837), renamed the Royal Naval College in 1806
- Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1873–1998)
- Royal Naval College, Osborne (1903–1923)
- Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (1905–present), renamed Britannia Royal Naval College in 1953
Famous quotes containing the words royal, naval and/or college:
“When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”
—Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)
“The world was a huge ball then, the universe a might harmony of ellipses, everything moved mysteriously, incalculable distances through the ether.
We used to feel the awe of the distant stars upon us. All that led to was the eighty-eight naval guns, ersatz, and the night air-raids over cities. A magnificent spectacle.
After the collapse of the socialist dream, I came to America.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)