United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN), also known as the U.S. Navy, is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. Founded in the late 18th century, it is the largest navy in the world, larger than the next several biggest navies combined.

Quotes

• Nail to the mast her holy flag,
     Set every thread-bare sail,
  And give her to the god of storms,—
     The lightning and the gale!
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "Old Ironsides", in the Boston Daily Advertiser (September 16, 1830); collected in Poems (1836)

External links

• Official website