Attack of the Seawolf

He who will not risk cannot win.

— John Paul Jones

Pick out the biggest and commence firing.

— Captain Mike Moran, USS Boise.

Fight her till she sinks and don’t give up the ship.

— Captain James Lawrence of the USS Chesapeake, as he was carried below, mortally wounded, in his losing fight with the HMS Shannon.

The colors must never be struck.

— Lieutenant William Burrows, USS Enterprise, 1813.

Take her down.

— Commander Howard Gilmore, aboard the World War II submarine USS Growler, ordering his crew to leave him on deck, wounded as he was, and submerge to save the ship.