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:
“When your fathers fixed the place of GOD,
And settled all the inconvenient saints,
Apostles, martyrs, in a kind of Whipsnade,
Then they could set about imperial expansion
Accompanied by industrial development.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“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)