The Allied fleet then sailed to the Thracian Chersonese, still held by the Persians, and besieged and captured the town of Sestos.

Phillip's fleet sailed from Portsmouth in May 1787.

" By 24 July his fleet was resupplied and, having determined that the French must be somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean, Nelson sailed again in the direction of Morea.

In the immediate aftermath of the battle, Herodotus says that the Persian fleet sailed around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly.

The Chinese armies conquered Vietnam for around 20 years, while the Chinese fleet sailed the China seas and the Indian Ocean, cruising as far as the east coast of Africa.

In 1667, when Defoe was probably about seven years old, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked Chatham.

In 845, a fleet of 600 Viking ships sailed up the River Elbe and destroyed Hamburg which, at that time, was a town of around 500 inhabitants.

On the outbreak of hostilities on 18 October, the Greek fleet, placed under the newly promoted Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, sailed for the island of Lemnos, occupying it three days later ( although fighting continued on the island until 27 October ) and establishing an anchorage at Moudros Bay.

The Ottoman fleet, with four battleships, nine destroyers and six torpedo boats, sailed to the entrance of the straits.

However, the Byzantine fleet sailed with enough provisions for only three months.

Seizing its opportunity, the Spartan fleet sailed at once to the Hellespont, the source of Athens ' grain.

In 1655, he sailed into the Delaware River with a fleet of seven vessels and about 700 men and took possession of the colony of New Sweden, which was renamed " New Amstel.

Thus, in August 480 BC, when the Persian army was approaching Thessaly, the Allied fleet sailed to Artemisium, and the Allied army marched to Thermopylae.

From Artemisium, the Allied fleet sailed to the island of Salamis, where the Athenian ships helped with the final evacuation of Athens.

He sailed with the Venetian fleet under James Malatesta via Cyprus.

Although William of Poitiers and William of Jumieges disagree about where the fleet was built – Poitiers states it was constructed at the mouth of the River Dives while Jumieges states it was built at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – both agree that it eventually sailed from Valery-sur-Somme.

De Grasse hastily prepared most of his fleet, 24 ships of the line, for battle and sailed out to meet Graves.

Taking on 3, 200 troops, he sailed from Cap-Français with his entire fleet, 28 ships of the line.

Rodney, who was ill, sailed for Europe with the rest of his fleet in order to recover, refit his fleet, and to avoid the Atlantic hurricane season.

Taking command of the combined fleet, now 19 ships, Graves sailed south, and arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake on 5 September.

While Nelson was searching the Mediterranean for him, erroneously supposing that Villeneuve intended to make for Egypt, Villeneuve passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, rendezvoused with the Spanish fleet, and sailed as planned to the Caribbean.

The British, intending to blockade French ports, sent out their fleet in February 1755, but the French fleet had already sailed.

On 4 September 1804, Somers assumed command of fire ship Intrepid which had been fitted out as a " floating volcano " to be sailed into Tripoli harbor and blown up in the midst of the corsair fleet close under the walls of the city.

After being defeated, Naxos is believed ( based on similar, later revolts ) to have been forced to tear down its walls, and lost its fleet and its vote in the League.

Placing the guns at close range he used them to keep off the British fleet while he battered down the walls of Toulon.

Nelson then gave orders for his leading ships to slow down in order to allow the British fleet to approach in a more organised formation.

Nelson ordered the fleet to slow down at 16: 00 to allow his ships to rig " springs " on their anchor cables, a system of attaching the bow anchor that increased stability and allowed his ships to swing their broadsides to face an enemy while stationary.

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

In July 2009, GM had shut down Hummer production of the H3, but the automaker had a special fleet order from Avis Rent a Car System.

* 1283 – War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet defeats a Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta.

He had had a fleet built of over 1, 000 ships at Samosata in order to supply his army for a march down the Euphrates and of 50 pontoon ships to facilitate river crossings.

Attempts were made to play down the perceived threat to Britain, but once the German fleet reached the position of equalling the other second-rank navies, it became impossible to avoid mention of the one great fleet it was intended to challenge.

The Syracusan cavalry rode them down mercilessly, eventually killing or enslaving all who were left of the mighty Athenian fleet.

A common story is that Queen Victoria having been saluted by a naval individual with a dirty palm, decreed the sailors of the fleet would salute palm down, palm rotated 90 degrees of a typical salute with the palm now pointing towards the member's shoulder.

For long periods of the last millennium Britain had the largest merchant fleet in the world, but it has slipped down the rankings as Flag of convenience has grown.

Until it shut down in February 2012, the Hovensa oil refinery produced, supplied by a fleet of tankers import.

** orders his coastal provinces to build a vast fleet of ships, with construction centered at Longjiang near Nanjing ; the inland provinces are to provide wood and float it down the Yangzi River.

* 1283 – July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.

One British observer wrote, " To the astonishment of the whole fleet, the French center were permitted without molestation to bear down to support their van.

Evidently believing the main Aragonese fleet was raiding down the coast, he hoped to destroy the blockading squadron and return to Naples before it returned.

This was especially crucial as in a democratic society, particularly after the Three Mile Island nuclear power station crisis in March 1979, a host of nuclear accidents or well-publicized near misses could have shut down the nuclear fleet completely.

* July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.

After discussions broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur, a naval base in the Liaotung province leased to Russia by China, which led to war.

Herodotus reports that there were 378 triremes in the Allied fleet, and then breaks the numbers down by city state ( as indicated in the table ).