The East Indiamen reached Arriving Whampoa Anchorage having lost Earnings_and_losses only one ship , which wrecked Destroying in the Flores Sea in a storm the day after the encounter .

On 8 September , while the French were removing Removing supplies from a captured British merchant ship east of Banda Aceh , two large sails were spotted Know .

Later in the day , three ships of the squadron launched Motion their ship 's boats and instigated a boarding action against the anchored ships , in defiance of Genoese neutrality .

The Japanese also sank Motion_directional or damaged Damaging three cruisers , three destroyers , an anti-aircraft training ship Sending , and one minelayer .

Saumarez immediately moved Motion to engage Hostile_encounter the French ship and managed Control to isolate Removing the frigate and subject Using it to a fierce barrage Use_firearm of fire for more than two hours .

In a heavy engagement fought Hostile_encounter in calm weather in the close confines of Algeciras Bay , the British force had been becalmed and battered , suffering Bodily_harm heavy casualties and losing Earnings_and_losses the 74-gun ship HMS `` Hannibal '' .

The fastest ship was HMS `` Superb '' under Captain Richard Goodwin Keats , which sailed Motion through the Spanish rearguard as a moonless night fell .

Unable to determine Deciding friend from foe in the darkness , `` Real Carlos '' inadvertently engaged Participation the Spanish ship `` San Hermenegildo '' , spreading Dispersal the fire to its compatriot .

A second stage of the battle then developed Cause_to_make_progress , as HMS `` Venerable '' took the lead of the British line , attacking Attack the rearmost French ship `` Formidable '' under Captain Amable Troude .

In France , despite the heavy Spanish losses Earnings_and_losses , the battle was celebrated Social_event as a victory , with Troude widely praised and promoted Cause_to_make_progress for the defence of his ship .

Determined to complete the destruction Destroying of `` Minnesota '' , Catesby ap Roger Jones , acting as captain in Buchanan 's absence Presence , returned Self_motion the ship to the fray the next morning , March 9 .

The plan was for Israel to ship Sending weapons to Iran , for the United States to resupply Supply Israel , and for Israel to pay Commerce_pay the United States .

The crew saved Rescuing their ship with no loss of life , and the `` Samuel B. Roberts '' was towed Sending to Dubai , United Arab Emirates on 16 April .

The sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean , four days into the ship 's maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City .

The largest ocean liner in service at the time , `` Titanic '' had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck Attack an iceberg at around 23:40 ( ship 's time ) on Sunday , 14 April 1912 .

Her sinking Motion two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 ( ship 's time ; 05:18 GMT ) on Monday , 15 April , resulted Causation in the deaths of more than 1,500 people , making it one of the deadliest peacetime marine disasters Catastrophe in history .

Unable to turn quickly enough , the ship suffered Bodily_harm a glancing blow that buckled Connect her starboard side and opened Openness six of her sixteen compartments to the sea ( the forepeak , all three holds , and boiler rooms 5 and 6 ) .

`` Titanic '' had been designed Create_artwork to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but no more , and the crew soon realised Coming_to_believe that the ship would sink Removing .

In accordance with existing practice , `` Titanic '' lifeboat system was designed Create_artwork to ferry passengers to nearby rescue vessels , not to hold Defending everyone on board simultaneously ; therefore , with the ship sinking Motion rapidly and help still hours away , there was no safe refuge for many of the passengers and crew .

The captured Conquering `` Sensible '' was initially fitted Building out as an active warship , but on arrival in Britain in 1799 the ship was downgraded Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to a transport .

a british ship of the line , hms `` swiftsure '' under captain benjamin hallowell was passing Motion_directional westwards through the southern mediterranean near cape derna when it encountered Hostile_encounter a much larger french squadron under contre-amiral UNK ganteaume that was also returning Arriving westwards after a failed attempt to reinforce the besieged Besieging french garrison in egypt .

although hallowell immediately recognised Know the danger his vessel was in and turned Change to flee Escaping , the french ships were much faster and soon closed Self_motion with his ship .

Turning Change towards the enemy , Hallowell found Know that his sluggish ship was unable to respond Response rapidly to French manoeuvres Self_motion and within two hours `` Swiftsure '' was surrounded Surrounding .

`` Swiftsure '' was later commissioned into the French Navy and fought Hostile_encounter at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Trafalgar in 1805 , where the ship was recaptured Conquering by the British and rejoined Becoming_a_member the Royal Navy .

Hallowell was subsequently court martialed for the loss Earnings_and_losses of his ship , but was honourably acquitted Legal_rulings and returned Arriving to naval service Supply .

As it was transitioning Change to an extratropical cyclone southwest of the Azores , the German ship Pamir encountered Hostile_encounter the storm Catastrophe and capsized on September 21 , resulting in Causation the deaths Death of 80 crew members on board .

The Alraigo Incident Catastrophe occurred Coming_to_be on 7 June 1983 , when a lost British Royal Navy Sea Harrier fighter aircraft landed Arriving on the deck of a Spanish container ship .

Running Motion low on fuel , and with his radio having stopped Process_end working , Watson headed Motion towards a nearby shipping lane , where he made visual contact Connect with the container ship `` Alraigo '' .

The ship was carrying Carry_goods a base plate for a telescope being delivered Sending to the La Palma Observatory in the Canary Islands .

The aircraft was salvageable , and the ship 's crew and owners were awarded Giving £570,000 compensation .

It detonated Attack above the target fleet and caused Causation less than the expected amount of ship damage because it missed its aim point by .

Between the air attacks and surface ship attacks over the two days of Operation `` Hailstone '' , the worst blow Motion against the Japanese was about 250 warplanes destroyed Destroying , with the concurrent irreplaceable loss Earnings_and_losses of experienced pilots .

The small British ship of the line escorted Patrolling the convoy , which otherwise had to rely on the ships ' individual armament to protect Preventing_or_letting them from attack .

After an hour and a half in pursuit Self_motion , with darkness falling Motion_directional , the East Indiaman came Arriving alongside the French `` Médée '' , giving Giving the impression by use of lights that she was a large ship of the line .

The first two opponents were driven Motion off , but the third succeeded in coming Motion alongside and , in a fierce and close fought Hostile_encounter duel , compelled Action Captain Richard Rodney Bligh to surrender Surrendering his ship in the face of overwhelming odds .

St Nazaire was targeted Aiming because the loss of its dry dock would force Request any large German warship in need of repairs , such as , sister ship of , to return Motion to home waters by running Self_motion the gauntlet of the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy and other British forces , via the English Channel or the GIUK gap .

The ship had been packed Filling with delayed-action explosives , well-hidden within a steel and concrete case , that detonated Damaging later that day , putting Causation the dock out of service until 1948 .

`` Forte '' was an exceptionally large and powerful ship engaged Hostile_encounter on a commerce raiding operation Military_operation against British merchant shipping Sending off the port of Calcutta in British India .

For unclear reasons the French captain Hubert Le Loup de Beaulieu did not properly prepare GetReady `` Forte '' to receive Receiving the attack Attack from Cooke 's frigate and he was consequently killed Killing in the first raking broadside from the British ship .

`` Forte '' s crew continued to resist Defending for more than two hours , only surrendering Surrendering when their ship had been reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to a battered wreck and more than a third of the crew killed Killing or wounded Bodily_harm .

Fernando Pereira , a photographer , drowned Death on the sinking Motion_directional ship .

A cargo ship was abandoned GiveUp after it was damaged Damaging by high winds offshore .

Banks , businesses , schools , and government offices closed in advance of the storm Catastrophe , while the Royal Navy ship HMS `` Argyll '' left its post in the Caribbean to provide Bermuda with emergency assistance Assistance .

The `` Maersk Alabama '' hijacking Kidnapping was a series of maritime events that began Process_start on 8 April 2009 with four pirates in the Indian Ocean seizing the cargo ship southeast of Eyl , Somalia .

It was the first successful pirate seizure of a ship registered Writing under the American flag since the early 19th century — many news reports referenced Adducing the last pirate seizure as being during the Second Barbary War in 1815 , although other incidents had occurred Coming_to_be as late as 1821 .

Eventually the wounded Bodily_harm Thompson surrendered Surrendering his dismasted ship Sending by ordering Request his men to wave Body_movement a French tricolour on a pike .

The Action of 18 August 1798 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter , fought Hostile_encounter between the British fourth rate ship HMS `` Leander '' and the French ship of the line `` Généreux '' .

The Action of 18 August 1798 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter , fought Hostile_encounter between the British fourth rate ship HMS `` Leander '' and the French ship of the line `` Généreux '' .

Captain Thomas Thompson on `` Leander '' initially tried to escape Escaping the much larger French ship , but it rapidly became Becoming clear that `` Généreux '' was faster than his vessel .

As French sailors took Getting possession of the British ship , Lejoille encouraged Influence systematic looting Robbery of the sailors ' personal possessions , even confiscating the surgeon 's tools in the middle of an operation Military_operation .