A British fleet of 24 ships of the line under Sir Edward Hawke tracked Motion down and engaged Hostile_encounter a French fleet of 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans .

A British fleet of 24 ships of the line under Sir Edward Hawke tracked Motion down and engaged Hostile_encounter a French fleet of 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans .

After hard fighting Hostile_encounter , the British fleet sank or ran aground six French ships , captured Conquering one and scattered Dispersal the rest , giving Giving the Royal Navy one of its greatest victories , and ending Process_end the threat Terrorism of French invasion for good .

Ganga was one of the oldest aircraft in the Indian Airlines fleet and was already withdrawn from service Rite but was re-inducted days before the hijacking Terrorism .

A Castilian fleet put Placing to sea and inflicted Causation a major defeat Conquering on the Moors in the Strait of Gibraltar .

With political support Supporting from allies in England , Scotland and Europe , a fleet of 463 ships landed William and 14,000 men in Torbay on 5 November .

During the operation , two operatives sank Motion_directional the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet , the `` Rainbow Warrior '' , at the Port of Auckland in New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test Testing in Moruroa .

These events featured fleet and match racing between America 's Cup class yachts representing Presence the syndicates that were vying for selection Choosing as challenger for the America 's Cup Competition in 2007 .

The Vigorous convoy was driven Motion back by the Italian fleet and attacks Attack by Axis aircraft .

The Carthaginians , now led by Himilco , a Magonid kinsman of Hannibal , managed to capture a Greek supply convoy of ships using the Carthaginian fleet , which forced the Greeks to face the threat of starvation in turn .

Ragnar 's fleet of 120 Viking ships , carrying thousands of men , entered Arriving the Seine in March and proceeded Self_motion to sail up the river .

Both ships had been engaged Hostile_encounter at the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Nile three weeks earlier , in which a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson had destroyed Destroying a French fleet at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt .

Both ships had been engaged Hostile_encounter at the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Nile three weeks earlier , in which a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson had destroyed Destroying a French fleet at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt .

`` Généreux '' was one of only four French ships to survive Preserving the battle Hostile_encounter , while `` Leander '' had been detached Connect from the British fleet by Nelson on 6 August .

On 5 July , French forces Causation re-embarked when word Writing arrived Arriving that a British fleet under Admiral John Byron was approaching Arriving .

Alexios was also able to rapidly quell the threat Warning of Abu ' l Qasim , the Seljuk governor of Nicaea , who attempted Hold to create Creating a fleet of his own at Abydos in ca .

Bruges and its satellite ports were a vital part of the German plans in their war on Allied commerce ( `` Handelskrieg '' ) because Bruges was close to the troopship lanes across the English Channel and allowed Preventing_or_letting much quicker access Having_or_lacking_access to the Western Approaches for the U-boat fleet than their bases in Germany .

The Glorious First of June ( also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant or , in France , as the ' or ' ) of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict Hostile_encounter between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars .

The action was the culmination of a campaign that had criss-crossed Motion_directional the Bay of Biscay over the previous month in which both sides had captured Conquering numerous merchant ships and minor warships and had engaged Participation in two partial , but inconclusive , fleet actions .

During the battle , Howe defied Agree_or_refuse_to_act naval convention by ordering his fleet to turn Motion towards the French and for each of his vessels to rake and engage their immediate opponent .

Nevertheless , his ships inflicted Causation a severe tactical defeat Conquering on the French fleet .

Despite losing Earnings_and_losses seven of his ships of the line , Villaret had bought Commerce_buy enough time for the French grain convoy to reach Arriving safety unimpeded by Howe 's fleet , securing a strategic success .

However , he was also forced to withdraw Removing his battle fleet back to port , leaving the British free to conduct Action a campaign of blockade for the remainder of the war .

He also sent Sending a fleet which recaptured Conquering the archipelago of São Tomé e Príncipe from the Dutch , who left GiveUp behind their artillery .

On 15 August 1796 Elphinstone 's larger fleet discovered Know Lucas 's force and trapped it in the bay .

The Russian fleet of 10 battleships , 6 frigates and small craft sailed Self_motion from Sevastopol on 5 September under Fyodor Ushakov for Kherson to pick up some frigates .

at 6 a.m. on 8 september it encountered Hostile_encounter the ottoman fleet of 14 battleships , 8 frigates and 23 small crafts at anchor near tendra .

As the Ottomans formed Coming_to_be into a battle Hostile_encounter line , the Russian fleet sailed Self_motion toward the tail end of the Ottoman line in 3 parallel lines , forming Coming_to_be into one line as they did so .

Some Russian ships had been chasing Self_motion the rest of the Ottoman fleet but they were losing Earnings_and_losses ground and at about 4:30 p.m. Ushakov recalled Statement them .

During the war , the `` Paquete de Maule '' served Supply as an auxiliary ship to the Chilean fleet and it was unarmed .

The `` Paquete de Maule '' , added Cause_to_be_included to the Spanish fleet as an auxiliary ship , armed with two cannons , took part in the Battle of Callao .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Mobile Bay of August 5 , 1864 , was an engagement Hostile_encounter of the American Civil War Hostile_encounter in which a Union fleet Military_operation commanded Control by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut , assisted Assistance by a contingent of soldiers , attacked Attack a smaller Confederate Collaboration fleet Military_operation led Causation by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded Patrolling the entrance to Mobile Bay .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Mobile Bay of August 5 , 1864 , was an engagement Hostile_encounter of the American Civil War Hostile_encounter in which a Union fleet Military_operation commanded Control by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut , assisted Assistance by a contingent of soldiers , attacked Attack a smaller Confederate Collaboration fleet Military_operation led Causation by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded Patrolling the entrance to Mobile Bay .

The battle Hostile_encounter was marked Recording by Farragut 's seemingly rash but successful run through Motion a minefield that had just claimed Statement one of his ironclad monitors Scrutiny , enabling Preventing_or_letting his fleet Military_operation to get Getting beyond the range of the shore-based guns .

This was followed by a reduction of the Confederate fleet to a single vessel , ironclad CSS `` Tennessee '' .

`` Tennessee '' did not then retire Departing , but engaged Participation the entire Northern fleet .

at 0135 on a sunday morning on which the gatwick area was affected Influence by patches of dense freezing Change fog , boeing 727 registration number unk ( the only such aircraft in the company 's fleet ) descended Motion_directional below its correct glide slope as it approached Self_motion the airport from the east .

By 1810 the French Navy fleet based in the Atlantic ports had been prevented Preventing_or_letting from launching Process_start any major operations Military_operation for four years , penned into harbour by the British strategy of close blockade Besieging .

A failed attempt Hold by a French fleet to sail Self_motion had been defeated Conquering at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Basque Roads in 1809 , and the main operations Military_operation still carried out Military_operation by the Navy were undertaken Action by privateers and frigate squadrons operating Being_in_operation commerce raiders operating Being_in_operation from smaller ports , such as those on the English Channel .

When this fleet failed to put Motion to sea , the Rochefort squadron , under Contre-Admiral Zacharie Allemand , went on an extended Expansion raiding cruise Attack across the Atlantic , both to intercept Attack British trade left Departing lightly defended Defending by the concentration of British forces Causation in European waters and with the intention of eventually combining Creating with the French Mediterranean Fleet then blockaded Besieging in Spanish harbours .

Later U-boat fleet action was extended Expansion to include Cause_to_be_included action against the trade routes of the Allied powers .

This campaign Military_operation was highly destructive Destroying , and resulted in Causation the loss Earnings_and_losses of nearly half of Britain 's merchant marine fleet during the course of the war Military_operation .

The Naval Battle Hostile_encounter of Tarragona fought Hostile_encounter between 4 and 6 July 1641 , was a naval engagement Participation of the Reapers ' War in which a Spanish galley fleet led Getting by the Duke of Fernandina attempted to break Destroying the French naval blockade over Tarragona , at that time besieged Besieging by land by the French and Catalan armies under the French Viceroy of Catalonia .

The French blockading fleet was under command Control of Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis , Archbishop of Bordeaux , and consisted both of sailing and rowing vessels .

The worsening of the situation inside Tarragona after the battle , caused Causation largely because the vessels that had entered Arriving the port remained blocked , adding hundreds of mouths to feed , compelled Philip IV of Spain to order Arranging the assembling of a second relief Assistance fleet .

Cannon fire Use_firearm from the British fleet was ineffective against the fortress at Fort-Royal due Causation to its location high on the cliffs , and there were no suitable landing Arriving places nearby .

The fleet Motion bombarded Attack various fortified pirate cities in present-day Libya , Tunisia , and Algeria , ultimately extracting Getting concessions of fair passage from their rulers .

When Thomas Jefferson became Becoming President of the United States in March 1801 , he refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to pay Commerce_pay tribute and sent Sending a United States Naval fleet to the Mediterranean .

British naval forces in North America and the West Indies were weaker Cause_change_of_strength than the combined Cause_to_amalgamate fleets of France and Spain , and , after some critical decisions Deciding and tactical missteps by British naval commanders , the French fleet of Paul de Grasse gained Getting control Control over Chesapeake Bay , blockading Cornwallis from naval support and delivering Sending additional land forces to blockade him on land .

The German ships evaded Escaping the British fleet and passed Motion_directional through the Dardanelles to reach Arriving Constantinople , where they were eventually handed over Giving to the Ottoman Empire .