The Laws of the Navy

Thirty nine poems, in the spirit of the great sea tradition of England, by Admiral Ronald Hopwood, C.B. entitled `The Laws of the Navy and Other Poems' first published in 1951. These poems are presented here because I believe that they provide useful lessons for us about `The Old Way' - values, principles and practices we would do well to remember today.

• Foreword
• The Laws Of The Navy
• The Old Way
• The Oaks Of England
• Our Fathers
• The King's Messengers
• The Vale
• The New World
• The Knights Of St. George
• The Master Shipwright
• The Safeguards
• Bread Upon The Waters
• Victory
• The Helmsman
• Job
• An English Easter
• Many Waters
• The Road To Damascus
• The Dome
• The Motherland
• A Fairy Went
• The Lightships
• The Pilot
• St. Christopher's Mantle
• Ship Logs
• The Ship's Bell
• The Master Mariner
• Stories of Old Ships - The "Dainty"
• The Greatest Of These
• The Captains Courageous
• Dunkirk
• Secret Orders
• H.M.S. "Jervis Bay"
• The Mills Of God
• Combined Operations
• The White Ensign
• Ad Astra
• A Goodly Heritage
• The Old Lady
• The Watchkeepers

Extra

• The Times Memoir

There's a voice

... the breeze has spoken strangers, with a stirring tale to tell,
And a thousand eager voices flung the challenge out to sea:
"Come they hither in the old way, in the only way that's free?"
And the flying Breeze called softly: "In the old way . . ."