during the course of the interdiction operation , an air battle Hostile_encounter known as the 18 april `` unk unk '' ( `` palm sunday massacre Killing '' ) took place Process_start , in which the german junkers ju 52 transport fleets suffered Bodily_harm heavy losses Earnings_and_losses over cape bon while evacuating Removing `` heer '' ( german army ) forces Military_operation escaping Escaping from the allied ground offensive Hostile_encounter operation `` vulcan '' .

Along with the attempted airlift during the Battle Hostile_encounter of Stalingrad , Operation Flax inflicted Causation such grievous losses Earnings_and_losses on the German transport Sending fleets that they were unable to recover Recovering .

The two fleets Patrolling battled Hostile_encounter the next day .

The French severely damaged Damaging several British ships ; however , both fleets Patrolling successfully returned Arriving to their bases .

In the aftermath of the battle both fleets were left shattered Destroying ; in no condition for further combat , Howe and Villaret returned Motion to their home ports .

Both admirals were faced Confronting_problem with disobedience Hindering from their captains , along with ill-discipline and poor training among their shorthanded crews , and they failed to control Control their fleets effectively during the height of the combat .

The Ottoman admiral , Hussein Pasha , seeing Traveling his tail threatened Warning , turned Self_motion north and came back Motion parallel to the Russians , who followed suit so the two fleets ended up Process_end on paralleled Motion tracks , heading Self_motion north-east .

Arab raids Attack reached Arriving a peak in the 9th and early 10th centuries , after the conquests of Crete , Malta and Sicily , with their fleets reaching Arriving the coasts of France and Dalmatia and even the suburbs of Constantinople .

The Siege of Algeciras ( 1342–44 ) was undertaken during the Reconquest of Spain by the Castillian forces of Alfonso XI assisted Assistance by the fleets of the Kingdom of Aragon and the Republic of Genoa .

VORTEX1 and VORTEX2 involved Cause_to_be_included large surface fleets of instrumented vehicles as well as aircraft and mobile radars .

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 Newfoundland expedition ( French : `` Expédition à Terre-Neuve '' , Spanish : `` Expedición a Terranova '' ) was a series of fleet manoeuvres and amphibious landings in the coasts of Newfoundland , Labrador and Saint Pierre and Miquelon carried out Action by the combined French and Spanish fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars .

The blockade failed because two relief Assistance convoys entered Arriving unmolested—the first under Admiral George Rodney in 1780 and the second under Admiral George Darby in 1781—despite the presence of the Spanish fleets .

Operations against Newport were planned Arranging in conjunction with a French fleet and troops , but they were frustrated Hindering in part by difficult relations between the commanders , as well as by a storm Catastrophe that damaged Damaging both French and British fleets shortly before joint Collaboration operations were to begin Process_start .

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 .

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 .

It also led to Causation groundings , inspections and engine replacements on some other Rolls-Royce powered Influence A380s in service with Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines , but not in the A380 fleets of Air France or Emirates , which were powered Influence by Engine Alliance engines .

Small boats , along with aircraft from RAF Bomber Command , simulated invasion fleets approaching Self_motion Cap d'Antifer , Pas-de-Calais and Normandy .

The lines of the two fleets did not completely meet Come_together ; only the forward and center sections fully engaged Hostile_encounter .

The two fleets sailed Self_motion within view Perception_active of each other for several days , but de Grasse preferred Choosing to lure Influence the British away from the bay where de Barras was expected to arrive Arriving carrying Carry_goods vital siege Besieging equipment .

While the main fleets manoeuvered Hold around one another , `` Castor '' was detached in pursuit of a Dutch merchant ship and on 29 May encountered Hostile_encounter the smaller independently cruising British frigate HMS `` Carysfort '' .