On the night of 1 September , during a bout of stormy weather , several Norwegian vessels were driven Motion aground on the Ayrshire coast , near present-day Largs .

On 2 October , while the Norwegians were salvaging Rescuing their vessels , the main Scottish army arrived Arriving on the scene .

The French crews resisted Defending , but the British boarding parties successfully captured Conquering all three vessels without suffering Bodily_harm any casualties Killing .

Israeli government is convinced Coming_to_believe that Iran is interested in creating Creating territorial contiguity from Iran to the Mediterranean and in transferring Military_operation military forces – including naval vessels , fighter planes and thousands of troops – to permanent bases in Syria and is trying to `` Lebanonize '' Syria and take over Military_operation using Using Shi'ite militias , as it had done with Hezbollah in Lebanon .

The Confederate fleet consisted Cause_to_be_included of the ironclad ram `` Virginia '' ( built Building from the remnants of the under-construction steam frigate , newest warship for the United States Navy / Union Navy ) and several supporting vessels .

William Shaler was the US commissioner in Algiers who had negotiated Communication alongside Decatur , but he had to flee Escaping aboard British vessels and watch Motion rockets and cannon shot fly over his house `` like hail '' during the Bombardment of Algiers ( 1816 ) .

during the first world war Hostile_encounter the neutral united states under president wilson pushed Motion for the major antagonists to respect the treaty , hoping that the good protection in the declaration Expressing_publicly for neutral vessels would be enforced Action .

however , the international court of justice dismissed Agree_or_refuse_to_act iran 's claim that the attack by united states navy was a breach of the 1955 treaty Statement of amity between the two countries as it only pertained to vessels , not platforms .

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 British frigate was one of a number of vessels detached Removing from the main British Mediterranean Fleet in the Tagus River , sent Sending to augment Cause_change_of_strength the fleet under Sir Horatio Nelson that was actively hunting Aiming the French convoy .

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 hurricane Catastrophe caused Causation significant impact Influence even before coming Motion ashore : many vessels were damaged Damaging , grounded Connect , capsized Destroying , or destroyed Destroying offshore throughout the course of the storm Catastrophe .

`` Tally-Ho '' was patrolling Patrolling from her base at Trincomalee , Ceylon searching Scrutiny for Japanese vessels and on 9 January , sighted Know the Japanese light cruiser `` Kuma '' off Penang .

With a clear advantage in the harbour 's shallow waters , these vessels manoeuvred Practice in the darkness and savaged Attack Jervis ' heavy ships of the line , striking Attack at their vulnerable areas with impunity .

The admiral sent Sending two reconnoitring frigates which surprised and caught two French and Spanish vessels in a night-time raid .

Sea vessels took the brunt of the storm , with many having become Becoming stranded Removing or damaged Damaging .

Also , about forty ships — two light cruisers , four destroyers , nine auxiliary ships , and about two dozen cargo vessels — were sunk Motion .

A French frigate force that had been raiding Attack British commerce off West Africa approached Self_motion and attempted to attack Attack a convoy of valuable East Indiamen , large and heavily armed merchant vessels sailing Motion from Britain to British India and China , two ships sailing Motion for Botany Bay , and a whaler sailing Motion for the South Seas ' whale fishery .

The 12th , 13th and 14th Minesweeping Flotillas from Malta , two groups of minesweeping trawlers and smaller vessels cleared Emptying a channel through the minefields of the Sicilian Channel to Tripoli , removing Removing nearly 200 moored mines .

The German vessels were largely undamaged Damaging but the French lost Earnings_and_losses their gunboat .

The next day , a group of Yugoslav Navy vessels deployed Arranging to the Split Channel , organised Arranging into the Kaštela tactical group ( TG ) and bombarded Attack the city of Split in retaliation Revenge for the loss Earnings_and_losses of `` Mukos '' .

To draw Motion off some of the artillery fire , the Yugoslav Navy deployed Arranging another group of vessels from the island of Vis , organised Arranging as the Vis TG , south of Šolta where the TG was engaged Hostile_encounter by more Croatian artillery .

Both vessels then served Supply with the French Atlantic Fleet , `` Tamise '' until 8 June 1796 , when the British recaptured Conquering her off the Scilly Isles , and `` Tartu '' until 30 December 1796 when the British captured Conquering her during the `` Expédition d'Irlande '' .

During the battle , Howe defied Agree_or_refuse_to_act naval convention by ordering his fleet to turn Motion towards the French and for each of his vessels to rake and engage their immediate opponent .

In May , Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced Expressing_publicly that the straits would be closed to Having_or_lacking_access Israeli vessels , and he mobilized Influence Egyptian forces along its border with Israel .

Within minutes two additional British vessels arrived Arriving , attracted Influence by the sound of gunfire Use_firearm , and helped Assistance secure Getting the badly damaged `` Thétis '' for the journey Motion to Britain .

This force comprised Forming_relationships three ships of the line and six smaller vessels , all under the command Control of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas .

The Action of 13 September 1810 was an inconclusive frigate engagement Hostile_encounter during the Napoleonic Wars between British Royal Navy and French Navy frigates during which a British frigate was defeated Conquering by two French vessels near Isle de France ( now Mauritius ) , but British reinforcements were able to recapture Conquering the ship before the French could secure her .

The small Haitian Navy defected Escaping to Borgella , who crewed the vessels with a collection of sailors from various countries , led by a notorious privateer named Name_conferral Gaspard .

Anchored Connect in Manila Bay , Cooke pretended that his ships were French vessels and successfully lured Convincing successive boatloads of Spanish officials aboard , taking Conquering them prisoner in turn .

A British blockading force , which had been conducting Action patrols Patrolling in the region in the aftermath of the battle Hostile_encounter of St Marcou earlier in the month , encountered Hostile_encounter two French vessels attempting Hold to sail Self_motion unnoticed between Le Havre and Cherbourg .

The attacking Attack force Military_operation rescued Rescuing 90 , and an additional 20 sailors were rescued Rescuing two days later by German vessels sent Sending to search for survivors .

The convoy Patrolling of 19 landing Arriving craft , which was expected to be escorted Patrolling by the three vessels sunk Removing by the Royal Navy , was not intercepted and it reached Arriving its destination by 2 November .

With naval supplies Supply severely limited Limiting , their ability to operate Control at sea for long periods of time was hampered Hindering and by late 1810 few of their vessels were still seaworthy .

On 9 February 1945 , a force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffered Bodily_harm many losses Earnings_and_losses , during an attack Attack on the German destroyer `` Z33 '' and its escorting Patrolling vessels ; the operation was called Name_conferral `` 'Black Friday ' '' by the Allied survivors .

The French blockading fleet was under command Control of Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis , Archbishop of Bordeaux , and consisted both of sailing and rowing vessels .

The worsening of the situation inside Tarragona after the battle , caused Causation largely because the vessels that had entered Arriving the port remained blocked , adding hundreds of mouths to feed , compelled Philip IV of Spain to order Arranging the assembling of a second relief Assistance fleet .

This time , the number of vessels gathered Come_together was much larger , after the joining Becoming_a_member of Fernandina 's squadron with another one commanded Control by the Duke of Maqueda .

A pressure wave snapped Destroying trees , bent Change iron rails , demolished Destroying buildings , grounded Connect vessels ( including `` Imo '' , which was washed ashore by the ensuing tsunami ) , and scattered Dispersal fragments of `` Mont-Blanc '' for kilometres .

The initial judicial inquiry Criminal_investigation found Know `` Mont-Blanc '' to have been responsible for the disaster Catastrophe , but a later appeal Protest determined Coming_to_believe that both vessels were to blame Judgment_communication .

French privateers operating Control from the Indian Ocean islands of Île Bonaparte and Île de France were a serious threat to British trade across the Indian Ocean during the Wars Hostile_encounter , and the British deployed Arranging numerous methods of intercepting them , including disguising warships as merchant vessels to lure Hold privateers into unequal engagements Hostile_encounter with more powerful warships .

The privateer was later taken Conquering into British service Supply as a sixth rate frigate and prize money was paid Commerce_pay for the captured vessels , but the action Response prompted Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale questions in subsequent histories about the lack of efficiency in British gunnery .

The Barbary pirates demanded Request tribute from American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean Sea .

The late season storm Catastrophe surprised maritime interests , and two barges broke Destroying free from towing Self_motion vessels .

In addition to tropical cyclone watches Motion and warnings Warning , about 950,000 people were evacuated Removing from the Carolinas , and the military evacuated Removing and relocated Removing hundreds of aircraft and vessels from the storm 's projected path .

Around 700 men were lost Death in engineering units , 70th Tank Battalion , and seaborne vessels sunk by the enemy .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Kowloon was a skirmish Hostile_encounter between British and Chinese vessels off the Kowloon Peninsula , China , on 4 September 1839 , located in Hong Kong , although Kowloon was then part of the Guangdong province .

The British admiral in command of the eastern Indian Ocean , Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew , led a force of four ships of the line , two frigates and brig to the capital of Java at Batavia ( later renamed Djakarta ) , in search of the squadron , which was reported Reporting to consist Cause_to_be_included of a number of Dutch ships of the line and several smaller vessels .

The raid was the third of series of actions intended to eliminate Removing the threat posed to British trade routes by the Dutch squadron : at the Action of 26 July 1806 and the Action of 18 October 1806 , British frigates sent Sending on reconnaissance missions to the region succeeded in attacking Attack and capturing Conquering two Dutch frigates and a number of other vessels .

On 28 August 1796 this combined Franco-Spanish squadron of 20 vessels , carrying 1,500 regular troops , appeared Presence off the coast of Newfoundland .