After the request Request was snubbed Judgment_communication by Sri Lanka , the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi ordered Arranging a flotilla of ships be sent Sending to relieve Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the LTTE .

On that day , `` Virginia '' was able to destroy Destroying two ships of the federal flotilla , and , and was about to attack Attack a third , , which had run Self_motion aground .

The Spaniards , under Vice-Admiral Mazarredo , organized Arranging a flotilla of small gunboats converted from yachts .

It was fought Hostile_encounter between a British Royal Navy destroyer flotilla and a `` Kriegsmarine '' force Military_operation of two corvettes and a destroyer .

The German flotilla was deployed Arranging to escort a convoy Patrolling retreating Escaping from Šibenik to Fiume ( present-day Rijeka ) .

Some were ferried Sending to the larger ships Sending by what came to be known as the Little Ships of Dunkirk , a flotilla of hundreds of merchant marine boats , fishing boats , pleasure Change_sentiment craft , yachts , and lifeboats called Request into service Supply from Britain .

He was joined Becoming_a_member in the show of force by a French flotilla as well .

Spanish support was blocked Hindering at sea by a flotilla of 12 Dutch and 10 English warships , and on land by the war in Mantua .

As Russia had no full-fledged navy to intercept Preventing_or_letting reinforcements coming to Motion the Swedish garrison across the Baltic , Riga managed Control to hold Defending out until October , when foreign officers commanding Control a small Russian flotilla defected Escaping to the other side and the Russians had to lift Process_end the siege .