England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

Shortly before this battle the Spartan navy, of which he had received the supreme command, was totally defeated off Cnidus by a powerful Persian fleet under Conon and Pharnabazus.

After traveling up the River Stour, the fleet was met by Danish vessels that numbered 13 or 16 ( sources vary on the number ) and a battle ensued.

The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

The Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

His fleet of 25 galleys was met by the Genoese ships sent by Visconti, led by Biagio Assereto.

In exchange for this support, Amyntas granted them rights to Macedonian timber, which was sent back to Athens to help fortify their fleet.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

Phillip had a very difficult time assembling the fleet which was to make the eight-month sea voyage to Australia.

However, the fleet was uncooperative.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

During the naval expansion of Aegina during the Archaic Period, Kydonia was an ideal maritime stop for Aegina's fleet on its way to other Mediterranean ports controlled by the emerging sea-power Aegina.

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian ( Herod.

At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 by which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War.

When the Greek fleet was preparing at Aulis to depart for Troy to begin the Trojan War, Artemis becalmed the winds.

The projected F6D Missileer was intended to fulfill this mission and oppose the attack far from the fleet it was defending.

*, was a Cumberland-class fleet oiler acquired by the US Navy 28 November 1956 and transferred to the US Army in 1967

At 5: 47 the fleet oiler USS Mississinewa, at anchor in the harbor, was struck and sunk.

It was powered by the " side oiler " Ford 427 engine ( 7. 0 L ) rated at, which provided a top speed of 164 mph ( 262 km / h ) in the standard model and with a top speed of in the competition model.

*, a transport oiler, was returned to her owner on 1 May 1984

* was a fleet replenishment oiler in service from 1970 to 1995

* The second Ponchatoula ( AO-148 ), later T-AO-148, was a fleet oiler in service from 1956 to 1992.

* The second was a fleet oiler purchased in 1940 and on active service until 1969.

* USS Mississinewa ( AO-144 ) was a United States Navy Neosho-class fleet oiler commissioned in 1955

* was acquired in 1940 as a fleet oiler, converted to an escort aircraft carrier in 1942, and in service until 1946.

* The second was a fleet oiler converted to an escort aircraft carrier during World War II.

* The third was an oiler in service from 1943 to 1957.

* The fourth was also an oiler, in service from 1971 to 1994.

* RFA Brambleleaf was an oiler launched in 1916 under the name RFA Rumol.

* RFA Bayleaf was an oiler, previously the civilian vessel Cervic.

* RFA Olwen was an oiler launched in 1917 as RFA British Light.

* RFA Olwen was an oiler launched in 1964 as RFA Olynthus.

* RFA Olna ( X47 ) was an oiler launched in 1921 and beached at Crete in 1941 after being bombed.

* RFA Olna ( A216 ) was an oiler launched in 1944 and scrapped in 1967.

* RFA Derwentdale was a Dale-class oiler and landing ship, gantry launched in 1941 and sold in 1960.

The navy oiler was the first fleet-support ship to be placed under MSC control.

He was assigned to the, an oiler ship operating in the Pacific theater.

* USNS Mission San Luis Rey ( T-AO-128 ) was a United States Navy Mission Buenaventura class fleet oiler fleet oilers during World War II

* was a fleet replenishment oiler from 1956 to 1957

* was a replenishment oiler in service from 1976 to 1995