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

Captain François A. Dénian on `` Réunion '' responded Response , but aside from inflicting Causation minor damage Damaging to Saumarez 's rigging achieved Achieve little while his own vessel was heavily battered Damaging , suffering Bodily_harm severe damage Damaging to rigging masts and hull and more than 80 and possibly as many as 120 casualties Death .

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 .

He initially planned Arranging to eject Motion in sight of the vessel , but noticed Know that its cargo provided Supply a flat landing Motion surface .

Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel `` Daigo Fukuryū Maru '' ( `` Lucky Dragon No .

The action is the only occasion during the war Military_operation in which a British merchant vessel captured Conquering a large French warship .

It was the sixth vessel in a week to be attacked Attack by pirates who had previously extorted Kidnapping ransoms in the tens of millions of dollars .

The story of the incident was reported Reporting in the 2010 book `` A Captain 's Duty : Somali Pirates , Navy SEALs , and Dangerous Days at Sea '' by Stephan Talty and Captain Richard Phillips , who had been master of the vessel at the time of the incident .

The Croatian Navy later towed Self_motion the grounded `` Mukos '' to Šibenik , repaired Recovering the vessel and put her into service Supply as OB-62 `` Šolta '' .

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 .

`` Paquete de Maule '' was a 400-ton sidewheel steamer built Building by Lawrence & Foulks in 1861 at Williamsburg , New York for G. K. Stevenson & Co. , who planned Arranging to operate Being_in_operation the vessel between Valparaiso and Maule .

An explosion and resulting oil and gas fires destroyed Destroying Piper Alpha on 6 July 1988 , killing Killing 167 people , including two crewmen of a rescue vessel ; 61 workers escaped Escaping and survived .

This was followed by a reduction of the Confederate fleet to a single vessel , ironclad CSS `` Tennessee '' .

Just off the coast , an unidentified vessel went Self_motion down with her entire crew in the hostile conditions .

The damaged Damaging `` Elisa '' remained Temporary_stay at anchor until 6 December , when an attack Attack by a British bomb vessel forced Causation the frigate to move Self_motion further inshore , becoming Becoming grounded Connect once more .

The Norwegian vessel collided Motion with , a French cargo ship laden with high explosives , in the Narrows , a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin , causing Causation a large explosion Catastrophe on the French freighter , devastating Destroying the Richmond district of Halifax .

Cruising near the Little Basses Reef on the Southern coast of Ceylon , the 34-gun privateer `` Bellone '' was sighted Hold by the 16-gun British brig HMS `` Rattlesnake '' , which began Process_start chasing Motion the larger French vessel .

The strong wave action killed Killing two people when it capsized a fishing vessel .

Munitions detonated Destroying while being loaded Filling onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations , killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others .

The vessel went Self_motion down off the Old Head of Kinsale , Ireland , killing Killing 1,198 and leaving Departing 761 survivors .

On August 13 , 1950 , the steamer Mayakovsky ( named Name_conferral for Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky ) sank Motion_directional at around 12:00 pm local time due Causation to overloading Filling of the vessel with too many people .

Hunley '' became Becoming renowned as the first submarine to successfully sink Motion_directional an enemy vessel in combat , and was the direct progenitor of what would eventually become Becoming international submarine warfare , although the victory was Pyrrhic and short-lived , since the submarine did not survive Preserving the attack Attack and was lost Earnings_and_losses with all eight Confederate crewmen .

If , therefore , with a view Perception_active to violate such blockade , a vessel shall approach Arriving , or shall attempt to leave either of the said ports , she will be duly warned Warning by the Commander of one of the blockading vessels , who will endorse on her register the fact and date of such warning Warning , and if the same vessel shall again attempt to enter or leave Departing the blockaded port , she will be captured Conquering and sent Sending to the nearest convenient port , for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize , as may be deemed Coming_to_believe advisable .

If , therefore , with a view Perception_active to violate such blockade , a vessel shall approach Arriving , or shall attempt to leave either of the said ports , she will be duly warned Warning by the Commander of one of the blockading vessels , who will endorse on her register the fact and date of such warning Warning , and if the same vessel shall again attempt to enter or leave Departing the blockaded port , she will be captured Conquering and sent Sending to the nearest convenient port , for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize , as may be deemed Coming_to_believe advisable .

And I hereby proclaim Statement and declare Expressing_publicly that if any person , under the pretended authority of the said States , or under any other pretense , shall molest a vessel of the United States , or the persons or cargo on board of her , such person will be held Defending amenable to the laws of the United States for the prevention and punishment of piracy .

The French had already been defeated Preventing_or_letting at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Tory Island and the Dutch suffered Confronting_problem a similar outcome , both ships defeated Preventing_or_letting in turn by the larger and better armed British vessel .

Turning his attention on the larger vessel , `` Furie '' , King rapidly overhauled Reforming_a_system her as well and opened Openness a heavy fire Use_firearm , to which `` Furie '' was only able to ineffectively reply Response .

After a short confrontation , Moore was fatally wounded Bodily_harm , and his vessel and crew were captured Conquering .

To assist Assistance in managing Control vessel traffic , Chodkiewicz hired Employment a few sailors , mainly Livonian .

The British captain , George Courtenay of HMS `` Boston '' , had arrived Arriving off New York City on 28 May and deliberately disguised Wearing his ship as a French vessel , fooling a French officer into coming Arriving aboard and making Action him a prisoner Prison of war .

While India suffered Bodily_harm no losses , Pakistan lost Earnings_and_losses a minesweeper , a destroyer , a cargo vessel carrying Carry_goods ammunition , and fuel storage Preserving tanks in Karachi .

However , after she boarded Temporary_stay some British merchant ships , British authorities sent Sending Rear Admiral de Horsey to capture Conquering the vessel .

The convoy of 70 British merchant vessels left Departing Malmö Roads under the escort of three Royal Navy brigs and one bomb vessel .