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.

Bonaparte demanded that his fleet be permitted entry to the fortified harbour of Valletta, and when the demand was refused the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.

It happened because the German aircraft industry lacked the experience to build a long-range bomber fleet quickly, and because Hitler was insistent on the very rapid creation of a numerically large force.

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

Antony's fleet numbered 500, of which 230 were large war galleys furnished with towers full of armed men.

After Mark Antony lost his fleet, his army, which had been equal to that of Octavian, deserted in large numbers.

To implement this doctrine, which the Air Force and its supporters regarded as the highest national priority, the Air Force proposed that it should be funded by the Congress to build a large fleet of U. S. based long-range strategic heavy bombers.

Pointing to the overwhelming dominance of the aircraft carrier in the Pacific Theater, they asked the United States Congress to fund a large fleet of " supercarriers " and their supporting battle groups, beginning with the USS United States ( CVA-58 ).

This is often a case of asset sweating, by using a single large combined fleet for intercity and regional services.

In the Royal Navy, the position was introduced to combat the cost of appointing more admirals — a costly business with a fleet as large as the Royal Navy's at that time.

Vanderbilt University's intercollegiate athletics teams are nicknamed the " Commodores ", a reference to Cornelius Vanderbilt's self-appointed title ( he was the master of a large shipping fleet ).

By 1943 however, large numbers of fleet and light carriers became available, which required larger formations of three or four carriers.

The UN operates a large fleet of aircraft and helicopters, and compared to other African countries the DRC has a large number of small domestic airlines and air charter companies.

It has a membership of around 120 and has a large selection of dinghies and a small fleet of keelboats, including Solings, which are former Olympic boats.

After consolidating political and financial support, William crossed the North Sea and English Channel with a large invasion fleet in November 1688, landing at Torbay.

After the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir in 1940, where the British fleet destroyed a large part of the French navy, still under command of Vichy France, that killed about 1, 100 sailors, there was nationwide indignation and a feeling of distrust in the French forces, leading to the events of the Battle of Dakar.

When the threat of invasion faded, John formed a large military force in England intended for Poitou, and a large fleet with soldiers under his own command intended for Normandy.

That year, Manuel sent a large Byzantine fleet of some 300 ships to assist Amalric, and the town of Damietta was placed under siege.

They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

It authorised the maintenance of a fleet of 19 battleships, 8 armoured cruisers, 12 large cruisers and 30 light cruisers to be constructed by 1 April 1904.

In all the fleet would have five squadrons of eight battleships, twelve large cruisers and thirty small, plus additional cruisers for overseas duties.

Tirpitz intended that with the rolling program of replacements, the existing coastal defence squadron of old ships would become a sixth fleet squadron, while the eight existing battlecruisers would be joined by eight more as replacements for the large cruisers presently in the overseas squadrons.

There is still a large military presence on the peninsula ; the home base of Russia's Pacific submarine fleet is across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at the Rybachy base.

The Dart-powered Vickers Viscount was the first turboprop aircraft of any kind to go into production and sold in large numbers.

During the First World War Erith was an extremely important area for the manufacture of guns and ammunition, largely due to the presence of the large Vickers works in the Fraser Road area.

A fabric covering over the structure completed the aerodynamic shell ( see the Vickers Wellington for an example of a large warplane which uses this process ).

Another initiative was taken in the early 1990s by the developers Trafalgar Brookmount Ltd who commissioned an artist to design and produce two large brown terracotta ' gate statements '; these are located at the east end of Wellington Way and the south end of Sopwith Drive and feature representative images of Brooklands ' pre-1940 history namely the Napier-Railton, Vickers Vimy and the two former Clubhouses.

For this task large numbers of De Havilland Tiger Moth, Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard were manufactured or assembled locally and second-hand biplanes were acquired — such as Hawker Hinds and Vickers Vincents — as well as other types for specialised training such as Avro Ansons and Supermarine Walrus.

During World War II, fifteen British Vickers Wellington bombers were modified to carry a large magnetic induction loop and an electrical generator.

Equipped with a quick-change barrel and fed with belts or large magazines, the MG 34 could fire for much longer periods of time than weapons like the Browning Automatic Rifle, Japanese Type 11, British Bren and French Châtellerault LMG, while being much lighter than crew-served weapons like the Vickers machine gun and M1917 Browning machine gun.

Image: Pillbox embrasures, Large, on Taunton Stop Line. JPG | Vickers medium machine gun emplacement with large, stepped embrasure.

* Vickers machine gun: earlier Maxims had been chambered for earlier British service cartridges, but the Vickers was produced for export available in most of the different calibres and cartridges used by countries around the world, and including a large caliber (. 50 inch ) as used on Royal Navy warships.

Consequently there were a relatively large number of aircraft offered by manufacturers in this sector of the market, pushing older 1950s designs from Fokker, Vickers and others into retirement.

In the United Kingdom, traditionally a maritime nation, a large number of amphibians were built between the wars, starting from 1918 with the Vickers Viking and the early 1920s Supermarine Seagull and were used for exploration and military duties including search and rescue, artillery spotting and anti-submarine patrol.

As late as 1972, this airfield was in service as a satellite fit-out and flight test centre for Vickers and latterly the British Aircraft Corporation, linked to their main factory and airfield at nearby Brooklands, Weybridge, capable of taking aircraft as large as the VC10.

Vickers became renowned as a manufacturer of large aircraft at its main factory at Brooklands in Surrey.

The company was historically the Naval Construction Works of Vickers Armstrongs and has a heritage of building large naval warships and armaments.

Local enterprises manufactured or assembled large numbers of De Havilland Tiger Moth, Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard training aircraft, and the RNZAF also acquired second-hand biplanes such as Hawker Hinds and Vickers Vincents, as well as other types for specialised training such as Avro Ansons and Supermarine Walruses.

A series of fourteen coastal defense guns, including four large Vickers 8-inch guns purchased during the Russo-Japanese War from the British, were secured in concrete bunkers and located around the island to guard the open water and the approaches into the lagoon.

In March 1941 a Vickers Wellington DWI that conveniently already had the necessary generator on board, ( it had been used for anti-magnetic mining operations using a large electromagnet ) was modified with a retractable " dustbin " holding the lamp, and proved the concept sound.

In 1914, the Electric & Ordnance Accessories Company Ltd ( Vickers, Sons & Maxim ) constructed a large factory between Common Lane and Drews Lane in the Ward End area of Washwood Heath.

* The Vickers VC10, which was designed to meet BOAC requirements for a large airliner that could operate medium range flights from short runways in southern Asia and Africa.

It occupies the site of the former Vickers Ruwolt engineering works which manufactured large industrial components and was the location of some iconic photography by Wolfgang Sievers.

A large variety of aircraft were used through Essendon in the 1960s-Lockheed Electras, Vickers Viscounts, Fokker Friendships, Douglas DC-3s, DC-4s, and DC-6s, De Havilland Comets, and from 1964, Boeing 727s.

When Whitehead retired, the Whitehead family sold the company to two large British armaments companies, Vickers and Armstrong-Whitworth.

During the 1930s Metropolitan Vickers produced two dozen very large diameter ( 3m / 10 ft ) three-phase AC traction motors for the Hungarian railway's V40 and V60 electric locomotives.