India celebrates Social_event its Navy Day annually on 4 December to mark this operation .

The Hudson Bay expedition Attack of Jean-François de Galaup , comte de La Pérouse was a series of military raids Attack on the lucrative fur trading Exchange posts and fortifications of the Hudson 's Bay Company on the shores of Hudson Bay by a squadron of the French Royal Navy .

The Royal Navy hoped that these raids Attack would wear down the formidable German defences .

Two Allied fleets set Self_motion sail from Rangoon , with the Royal Navy 's Task Force 11 headed for Penang under Operation Jurist , while the larger British and French fleet sailing on to Singapore under Operation Tiderace. < ref name= '' JAPANESE SIGN THE SURRENDER OF PENANG ABOARD HMS NELSON ( 3/9/1945 ) '' > < /ref > The earlier liberation of Penang was intended to test Testing Japanese intentions as a prelude to the eventual recapture of Singapore and the rest of Malaya .

Belgium was divided into administrative zones , the General Government of Brussels and its hinterland ; a second zone , under the 4th Army , including Ghent and Antwerp and a third zone under the German Navy along the coastline .

Operation Vengeance Revenge was the American military operation Military_operation to kill Killing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on April 18 , 1943 , during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II .

Isoroku Yamamoto , commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy , was killed Killing on Bougainville Island when his transport bomber aircraft was shot down Use_firearm by United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft operating Being_in_operation from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal .

The mission of the U.S. aircraft was specifically to kill Killing Yamamoto and was based on United States Navy intelligence on Yamamoto 's itinerary in the Solomon Islands area .

This battle Hostile_encounter saw Self_motion the first use Using of the newly invented Creating self-propelled torpedo which , at the time , had just entered Arriving limited service with the Royal Navy .

The Germans were joined Becoming_a_member by submarines of the Italian Royal Navy ( `` Regia Marina '' ) after their Axis ally Italy entered Arriving the war Hostile_encounter on June 10 , 1940 .

With an Allied withdrawal to Le Havre cut off , the Highlanders and the French retreated Escaping to St Valery-en-Caux , where from and soldiers were rescued Rescuing by the Navy .

The action was one of a series of operations Military_operation conducted Action by the British Royal Navy and the French Navy to contest Competition dominance over the Adriatic between 1807 and 1814 .

The action was one of a series of operations Military_operation conducted Action by the British Royal Navy and the French Navy to contest Competition dominance over the Adriatic between 1807 and 1814 .

The U.S. Navy warships that escorted Patrolling the tankers , part of U.S .

Other U.S. Navy vessels participated Participation in Operation Earnest Will .

They were then under the command Control of the U.S. Navy 's Seventh Fleet which had primary responsibility for combat operations in the Persian Gulf region .

This was the first tactical operation Military_operation of the United States Special Operations Command ( USSOCOM ) that involved Cause_to_be_included Navy SEALs , Special Boat Units , and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ( Airborne ) ( `` Nightstalkers '' ) aviators all working together Collaboration .

The French Navy sought to disrupt Hindering British trade by intercepting Know and capturing Conquering merchant ships with roving frigates , a strategy countered Response by protecting British convoys with heavier warships , particularly in European waters .

`` Atalante '' was later taken Bringing into the Royal Navy as HMS `` Espion '' .

The `` Virginius '' Affair started Process_start a resurgence in the US Navy following the American Civil War ; its fleet had been heretofore inferior to the warships of Spain .

These ships were soon joined Becoming_a_member by French Navy frigates and began Process_start to inflict losses Earnings_and_losses on shipping in the region .

The Royal Navy forces in the Indian Ocean were deployed Arranging elsewhere and so the East India Company , the private enterprise that ruled much of British India in the 1790s and maintained Statement their own fleet and navy , raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale a squadron of armed Bearing_arms merchant ships to patrol the Strait and drive Self_motion off the raiders .

The battle Hostile_encounter was strategically decisive , in that it prevented Preventing_or_letting the Royal Navy from reinforcing Cause_change_of_strength or evacuating Emptying the besieged Besieging forces Causation of Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown , Virginia .

A report was released Publishing on January 15 , 2008 , ending Process_end the investigation by the Navy into the crash .

With the support Supporting of the guns of the Royal Navy , the 29th Division was to advance Cause_to_make_progress along the peninsula on the first day and seize Control the heights of Achi Baba .

Several British officers were court-martialed Judgment_communication and expelled Removing from the Navy for their poor performance against the enemy .

It was the biggest attack Attack on the Navy and its assets since 1971 , and is believed Know to be the last major attack Attack of militant mastermind Ilyas Kashmiri .

The convoy of 70 British merchant vessels left Departing Malmö Roads under the escort of three Royal Navy brigs and one bomb vessel .

With the onset of the war , the islands that flanked Attack Japan 's South Seas possessions became Becoming of vital concern to Japanese Imperial General Headquarters , and in particular to the Imperial Navy , which was tasked Request with protecting Defending Japan 's outlying Pacific territories .

The frigate action of 29 May 1794—not to be confused with the much larger fleet action of 29 May 1794 that took place in the same waters at the same time—was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars between a Royal Navy frigate and a French Navy frigate .

The frigate action of 29 May 1794—not to be confused with the much larger fleet action of 29 May 1794 that took place in the same waters at the same time—was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars between a Royal Navy frigate and a French Navy frigate .