George Hoskins: You said the jobs were getting worse. You're right. Last night was too much!
[he crushes the newspaper in his hands]
George Hoskins: We'll get out!
Bill Randall (skipper of 1087: Do you really believe we can get out now?... finish? Clean off the muck and forget what we've done? Do you really believe that?
George Hoskins: Why not?
Bill Randall (skipper of 1087: Because it happened! We did those things! From the smuggling of a few bottles of wine in the early days to the carrying of that raving maniac last night! We did it all, George, and we can't wipe that off the scoreboard!


--George Baker (as Bill Randall) in The Ship That Died of Shame

Birdie: She won't do it... not after what we made her do, not after that! She's got her pride - like all of us! She won't do it! You can't blame her!
Bill Randall (skipper of 1087: No, Birdie, I don't blame her.


--George Baker (as Bill Randall) in The Ship That Died of Shame

Bill Randall (skipper of 1087: [narrating] I know about ships. They're wood and metal and nothing else. They don't have souls. They don't have wills of their own. And they don't talk back.


--George Baker (as Bill Randall) in The Ship That Died of Shame

Johnny Mansell: Funny thing about women in men's jerseys - makes them look more like women than ever.


--George Baker (as ) in Tread Softly Stranger

[last lines]
Bill Randall (skipper of 1087: [narrating] And so she died. She gave up and died... in anger and in shame. Yes, she had her pride!


--George Baker (as Bill Randall) in The Ship That Died of Shame