Besides the aforementioned knights , infantry , and siege Besieging engines , Alfonso also blockaded Besieging the city with ships on the river Adour .

Nearby ships felt the initial explosion Attack and a second , much larger , explosion Attack , yet the Russian Navy did not realise Know that an accident had occurred Presence and did not initiate Process_start a search Scrutiny for the sub for more than six hours .

According to sources , at night the Bulgarian ruler sent Sending boats to burn Destroying the anchored Ottoman ships and soon after he defeated Conquering the army of Kantakouzenos at Mosynopolis .

Seeing them running Self_motion from the mound , the Norwegians on the beach believed Know they were retreating Escaping , and fled Escaping back towards the ships .

The Scots withdrew Escaping from the scene and the Norwegians reboarded Self_motion their ships .

In July this force sailed Self_motion on a commerce raiding cruise off British Ceylon , but a subsequent attack into the Straits of Malacca was driven Motion off in an inconclusive engagement with two British ships of the line off Northeastern Sumatra .

As Sercey left Departing Batavia he turned eastward along the northern coast of Java to avoid Preventing_or_letting the British commander in the region , Admiral Peter Rainier , who was escorting Patrolling four ships through the Straits of Malacca to the west .

The EIC Commodore , James Farquharson , captain of , knew Know that if he fled Escaping the French would rapidly overwhelm Destroying his ships so he decided Deciding to try a bluff .

He would attempt to lead Causation Sercey into believing that the convoy was formed Coming_to_be not from lightly armed East Indiamen , but from the powerful ships of the line that the Indiamen resembled Change_sentiment .

Farquharson ordered Arranging his ships to advance Self_motion in line of battle .

Sercey did momentarily reconsider Deciding when the British ships equally declined Agree_or_refuse_to_act to attack Attack the temporarily disabled frigate `` Forte '' , but eventually withdrew Escaping completely .

The Attack Attack on Mers-el-Kébir ( 3 July 1940 ) also known as the Battle Military_operation of Mers-el-Kébir , was part of Operation Military_operation Catapult , a British naval attack Attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir on the coast of French Algeria .

The bombardment Attack killed Killing 1,297 French servicemen , sank a battleship and damaged Damaging five ships , for a British loss Earnings_and_losses of five aircraft shot Use_firearm down and two crewmen killed Killing .

Of particular significance to the British were the five battleships of the `` Bretagne '' and `` Richelieu '' classes , and the two fast battleships of the Dunkerque class , the second largest force of capital ships in Europe after the Royal Navy .

The British War Cabinet feared Change_sentiment that France would hand Giving the ships to the German Navy ( `` Kriegsmarine '' ) , giving Giving the Axis assistance Assistance in the Battle Military_operation of the Atlantic or Battle Military_operation of the Mediterranean .

On 27 November 1942 , after Operation Military_operation Torch , the Allied invasion Attack of Morocco and French Algeria had begun Process_start , the French navy foiled Removing a German attempt to capture Conquering the rest of the French fleet ( Operation Military_operation Anton ) by scuttling Destroying their ships in Toulon Harbour .

The British force consisted of two 74-gun ships of the line hastily paired to oppose Agree_or_refuse_to_act the eastward advance Self_motion of the French squadron .

although the british ships were substantially larger than any individual french vessel , the frigates were more numerous and more manoeuvrable .

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 .

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 .

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 22 November 1595 Drake and John Hawkins tried to invade Attack San Juan with 27 ships and 2,500 men .

In response Response France authorized Preventing_or_letting privateers to conduct Action attacks Attack on American shipping , seizing Self_motion numerous merchant ships , and ultimately leading Causation the U.S. to retaliate Revenge .

On 13 November 1918 , a French brigade entered Arriving the city to begin the Occupation of Constantinople and its immediate dependencies , followed Self_motion by a fleet consisting Cause_to_be_included of British , French , Italian and Greek ships deploying Arranging soldiers on the ground the next day .

The Corfu Channel Incident Incident consists of three separate Forming_relationships events involving Cause_to_be_included Royal Navy ships in the Channel of Corfu which took place Process_start in 1946 , and it is considered an early episode of the Cold War Military_operation .

During the first incident Incident , Royal Navy ships came under fire Attack from Albanian fortifications .

The second incident Incident involved Cause_to_be_included Royal Navy ships striking Attack mines and the third incident Hostile_encounter occurred Coming_to_be when the Royal Navy conducted Action mine-clearing operations Military_operation in the Corfu Channel , but in Albanian territorial waters , and Albania complained Judgment_communication about them to the United Nations .

Rough seas sank several ships and killed Killing nine people in the region .

The Second Battle Hostile_encounter of Algeciras ( also known as the Battle of the Gut of Gibraltar ) was a naval battle Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter on the night of 12 July 1801 ( 23 messidor an IX of the French Republican Calendar ) between a squadron of British Royal Navy ships of the line and a larger squadron of ships from the Spanish Navy and French Navy in the Gut of Gibraltar .

The Second Battle Hostile_encounter of Algeciras ( also known as the Battle of the Gut of Gibraltar ) was a naval battle Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter on the night of 12 July 1801 ( 23 messidor an IX of the French Republican Calendar ) between a squadron of British Royal Navy ships of the line and a larger squadron of ships from the Spanish Navy and French Navy in the Gut of Gibraltar .

Retiring for repairs , both sides called up Request reinforcements , the French receiving Receiving support Supporting first , from the Spanish fleet based at Cadiz , which sent Sending six ships of the line to escort the French squadron to safety .

Finding Know that his ships were falling Motion_directional behind , Saumarez instructed Request his captains to separate Forming_relationships and attack Attack the combined squadron as best they were able to .

`` Superb '' fired on the rearmost ships , setting Placing the 112-gun `` Real Carlos '' on fire and capturing Conquering the `` Saint Antoine '' .

Both ships subsequently exploded Attack with enormous loss Earnings_and_losses of life .

In the aftermath of the action Response , `` Venerable '' was towed Body_movement off the shoreline and back to Gibraltar for repairs , while the remainder of the British squadron restored Recovering the British blockade of the French and Spanish ships in Cadiz , returning Arriving the situation to that in place before the battle .

On the first day of battle Hostile_encounter , they were opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act by several conventional , wooden-hulled ships of the Union Navy .

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 ships did not fight Hostile_encounter again , and the blockade Besieging remained in place .

The preeminent naval powers Influence , Great Britain and France , halted Process_end further construction Building of wooden-hulled ships , and others followed suit .

The western nations built Building ever more sophisticated and expensive ships which the Barbary pirates could not match Competition in numbers or technology .

It also marked Recording the U.S. Navy 's first exchange of anti-ship missiles with opposing ships and the only occasion since World War II on which the US Navy sank a major surface combatant .

In addition , more than 230 deaths Death occurred Presence on water craft along Northern European coasts as well as on ships in deeper waters of the North Sea .

Hugh IV of Cyprus and the Order of the Hospital joined Participation and on 2 November 1342 , the Pope sent Sending letters to engage Participation the men and ships of Venice .

Of the 173-192 fatalities in Canada , most of them occurred Coming_to_be due to damaged or missing ships , with two boats losing Earnings_and_losses their entire crew .

Overall , the hurricane sank Motion nine small ships , and nine fishermen were killed Killing .

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 .

at 14:00 , three french vessels were within long gunshot Attack and hallowell decided Deciding that his only hope of escape Escaping lay in disabling Destroying the three ships before the rest Preserving of the french squadron could join Participation the engagement Hostile_encounter .

The battle Hostile_encounter is historically significant as the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other , as well as the first in which the opposing Agree_or_refuse_to_act ships neither sighted Know nor fired Attack directly upon one another .

although a tactical victory for the japanese in terms of ships sunk , the battle Hostile_encounter would prove Convincing to be a strategic victory for the allies for several reasons Protest .

Jervis ' ships besieged Besieging Cádiz but were repelled Removing by unexpected Spanish resistance .