Imperial Navy

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:

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.

    “I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)