The Spanish Armada ( ) was a Habsburg Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed Self_motion from Corunna in late May 1588 , under the command Control of the Duke of Medina Sidonia , with the purpose of escorting Patrolling an army from Flanders to invade England .

In the ensuing Battle of Gravelines , the Spanish fleet was further damaged Damaging and was in risk of running Self_motion aground on the Dutch coast when the wind changed Change .

The Armada , driven Motion by southwest winds , withdrew Escaping north , with the English fleet harrying it up the east coast of England .

the first serious attempt was the siege Besieging of malacca in 1606 by the third voc fleet from holland with eleven ships , led Conquering by admiral cornelis unk de jonge that lead to Causation the naval battle of cape unk .

although the dutch were routed , the portuguese fleet of martim afonso de castro , the viceroy of portuguese india , suffered Catastrophe heavier casualties Catastrophe and the battle Hostile_encounter rallied Filling the forces Causation of the sultanate of johor in an alliance with the dutch .

The campaign followed directly from the Trafalgar campaign of the year before , in which the French Mediterranean fleet had crossed Motion_directional the Atlantic , returned Arriving to Europe and joined Connect with the Spanish fleet .

The campaign followed directly from the Trafalgar campaign of the year before , in which the French Mediterranean fleet had crossed Motion_directional the Atlantic , returned Arriving to Europe and joined Connect with the Spanish fleet .

on 21 october 1805 , this combined force was destroyed Destroying by a british fleet under lord nelson at the battle of trafalgar , although the campaign did not end Process_end until the battle of cape ortegal on 4 november 1805 .

Barham had miscalculated Judgment_communication – the French Atlantic fleet , based Presence at Brest , had not been involved Participation in the Trafalgar campaign and was therefore at full strength .

The losses Earnings_and_losses suffered Bodily_harm by the Brest fleet weakened Cause_change_of_strength it so severely that it would not participate Participation in a major operation until 1809 , when an attempt to break out Process_start of Brest ended Process_end in defeat at the Battle of Basque Roads .

The campaign Military_operation involved Cause_to_be_included commerce raiding Attack by detached forces Causation and two minor engagements Hostile_encounter , eventually culminating Process_end in the full fleet action of the Glorious First of June 1794 , at which both fleets were badly mauled Bodily_harm and both Britain and France claimed Statement victory Earnings_and_losses .

The French lost Earnings_and_losses seven battleships ; the British none , but the battle Hostile_encounter distracted Hindering the British fleet long enough for the French convoy to safely reach Arriving port .

However , political upheaval Hindering had severely reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the French Navy 's ability to fight Hostile_encounter coherently and supply Supply shortages Confronting_problem had devastated Destroying its morale , significantly weakening Cause_change_of_strength the fleet .

Two partial but inconclusive fleet actions on 28 and 29 May followed , during which Howe seized Conquering the weather gage from Villaret , granting Giving him freedom to choose Choosing the time and place of his next attack Attack .

In the battle Hostile_encounter , the British fleet inflicted Causation a heavy defeat Conquering on the French after a bitterly contested Quarreling day of fighting Hostile_encounter .

That fort and York Factory trading post both surrendered Surrendering without a fight , although some of the furs stored Preserving at York were spirited away by a company ship that evaded Escaping the French fleet .

Men on La Pérouse 's fleet , which had sailed Motion with minimal winter provisioning to maintain secrecy , suffered Bodily_harm hardships Confronting_problem including scurvy and other diseases .

previous raids Attack on unk conducted Action by fleet air arm aircraft had involved Cause_to_be_included only one air attack Attack ; in operation goodwood several attacks Attack were made Action in a single week .

The British fleet departed Departing its base on 18 August and launched Attack the first raid against Kaafjord on the morning of 22 August .

historians regard Judgment_communication operation goodwood as a significant failure for the fleet air arm and attribute its results Causation to the shortcomings of the force 's aircraft and their armament .

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 .

Meanwhile , the Allied fleet arrived Arriving off Singapore on 4 September and accepted Receiving the surrender of the Japanese forces stationed on the island .

The accident led to Causation the temporary grounding of the rest of the six-plane Qantas A380 fleet .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Rügen was a naval battle Hostile_encounter near the island of Rügen ( in modern Germany ) , that took place Process_start on 21 May 1565 between an allied fleet of 6 Danish and 3 Lübeck ships , and a Swedish fleet of 48 ships with a total of 1,638 guns and 8,000 men under Klas Horn .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Rügen was a naval battle Hostile_encounter near the island of Rügen ( in modern Germany ) , that took place Process_start on 21 May 1565 between an allied fleet of 6 Danish and 3 Lübeck ships , and a Swedish fleet of 48 ships with a total of 1,638 guns and 8,000 men under Klas Horn .

The Swedish fleet was victorious , and 4 of the allied ships were burned Destroying , while the remaining 5 were captured Conquering .

The Capture of Muscat occurred Coming_to_be in 1552 , when an Ottoman fleet under Piri Reis attacked Attack Old Muscat , in modern Oman , and plundered Robbery the town from the Portuguese .

The city , before then a possession of the King of Hormuz , had been in Portuguese hands since 1507 , when a Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque attacked Attack the city , destroyed Destroying it , and then came back Arriving soon after to occupy Control it .

The city was again attacked Attack by the Ottomans in 1552 with a larger fleet under Piri Reis and Seydi Ali Reis .

The Ottomans failed however in 1553 against a Portuguese fleet at sea near al-Fahl .

The invasion of Algiers began Process_start on 5 July 1830 with a naval bombardment by a fleet under Admiral Duperré , and a landing by troops under Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisne , comte de Bourmont .

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 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Lepanto was a naval engagement Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start on 7 October 1571 when a fleet Military_operation of the Holy League , a coalition of European Catholic states arranged Arranging by Pope Pius V , inflicted a major defeat on the fleet Military_operation of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Lepanto was a naval engagement Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start on 7 October 1571 when a fleet Military_operation of the Holy League , a coalition of European Catholic states arranged Arranging by Pope Pius V , inflicted a major defeat on the fleet Military_operation of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras .

The Ottoman forces Military_operation were sailing Motion westward from their naval station in `` Lepanto '' ( the Venetian name of ancient `` Naupactus '' , Ottoman `` '' ) when they met Come_together the fleet Military_operation of the Holy League which was sailing Motion east from Messina , Sicily .

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 combatants Hostile_encounter were a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Joseph Paul , the Comte de Grasse .

The combatants Hostile_encounter were a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Joseph Paul , the Comte de Grasse .

He sailed Self_motion south from Sandy Hook , New Jersey , outside New York Harbor , with 19 ships of the line and arrived at Arriving the mouth of the Chesapeake early on 5 September to see Perception_active de Grasse 's fleet already at anchor Temporary_stay in the bay .

De Grasse hastily prepared GetReady most of his fleet for battle—24 ships of the line—and sailed Self_motion out to meet Come_together him .

several days after unloading Removing the cargo , while sailing Self_motion to cadiz for repairs , `` glorioso '' was attacked Attack successively near cape st vincent by four british privateer frigates and the ships of the line hms `` dartmouth '' and hms `` russell '' from admiral john byng 's fleet .

Northwest Airlines sold Commerce_sell off its fleet of Electras soon after this accident .

Still , her resistance enabled Preventing_or_letting most of the merchant fleet to escape Escaping .

The expedition reached Arriving the Gulf of Saint Lawrence without incident , but foggy conditions , tricky currents , and strong winds combined Cause_to_amalgamate to drive Motion the fleet toward the north shore of the river near a place now called Pointe-aux-Anglais , where the ships were wrecked Destroying .

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 Action of 9 August 1780 was a naval engagement Hostile_encounter of the Anglo-Spanish War , in which a Spanish fleet , led Conquering by Admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova , along with a squadron of French ships Sending , encountered Hostile_encounter a large British convoy .

On 9 August , they encountered Hostile_encounter the Spanish fleet .