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Sjöstierna and Swedish
Main Swedish fleet arrived in 3 June from Sweden under Admiral Sjöstierna and consisted of 15 ships of the line, 5 frigates.

Sjöstierna and fleet
Lewenhaupt who arrived ten days after the defeat at Villmanstrand tried to organize joint operation by both land and naval forces towards Vyborg but Admiral Aron Sjöstierna who took von Rajalins positions made it clear that fleet would not be able to do it.

sailed and home
Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.
He sailed for home on 10 August 1250.
The arrival of the Second and Third Fleets placed new pressures on the scarce local resources, but by the time Phillip sailed home in December 1792, the colony was taking shape, with official land-grants and systematic farming and water-supply.
As the ship sailed home, Newton began to read the Bible and other religious literature.
After seven years, the gods decided to send Odysseus home ; on a small raft, he sailed to Scheria, the home of the Phaeacians, who gave him passage to Ithaca.
Those in home waters sailed to the British submarine base at Harwich.
In 1589, he took part in Francis Drake's English Armada, which sailed to Spain in an unsuccessful attempt to press home the English advantage following the defeat of the Spanish Armada ; the Queen had ordered him not to take part in the expedition, but he only returned upon the failure to take Lisbon.
Anson then sailed home, eventually arriving back in London more than three and a half years after he had set out, having circumnavigated the globe in the process.
Gaunt had no funds with which to pay them, and despite his entreaties none were sent from England, so in April 1374 he abandoned the enterprise and sailed for home.
In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.
) They sailed down the Euphrates to Emar ( Meskene ) and then returned home via Mitanni.
For centuries Marstal vessels have sailed the seven seas, and even today the town is the home port for a considerable number of coasters.
It did, however, resolve that hostilities should cease, and the British abandoned Fort Bowyer and sailed home to their base in the West Indies.
The Sicilians landed near Alexandria but when they realised that their expected allies would not be coming ( due to King Amalric I of Jerusalem's death ) and with Saladin's army approaching they returned to their ships and sailed home.
He sailed back to Britain from Nova Scotia aboard a Royal Navy ship arriving home in November 1804.
He sailed home from Korean waters aboard battleship, but was not part of the ship's company.
" Earlier, on 12 September 1731, Rear Admiral Stewart had written to the Governor of Havana to complain of the " violence and villainies " of a Guarda Costa commander named Fandino who, " about the 20th April last sailed out of your harbor in one of those Guarda Costas, and met a ship of this island bound for England ; and after using the captain in a most barbarous inhuman manner, taking all his money, cutting off one of his ears, plundering him of those necessaries which were to carry the ship safe home ...".
Every day, the fleet sailed out to Lampsacus in battle formation, and waited outside the harbor ; when Lysander refused to emerge, they returned home.
Because of the long periods often spent at sea and poor conditions on board, many of the crew sometimes perished during the voyage ; therefore advanced rigging systems were developed so that the vessel could be sailed home by an active sailing crew a fraction of the size aboard at departure.
His father worked in Canada from 1903, and sailed home to collect his family to emigrate to Canada in 1907.
In 1936 Eric de Bisschop built a Polynesian " double canoe " in Hawaii and sailed it home to a hero's welcome in France.
He sailed these in a sitting position and not as a windsurfer standing up, near his home on the Swan River in Perth.

sailed and already
Before the Little Ice Age, Norwegian Vikings sailed as far north and west as Ellesmere Island, Skraeling Island and Ruin Island for hunting expeditions and trading with the Inuit groups who already inhabited the region.
The British, intending to blockade French ports, sent out their fleet in February 1755, but the French fleet had already sailed.
The ship's captain, Thomas, was ordered by the revelers to overtake the king's ship which had already sailed.
After the victory at Mycale, the Allied fleet sailed to the Hellespont to break down the pontoon bridges, but found that this was already done.
" This anxiety was groundless, for Mrs. Copley and the children had already sailed on May 27, 1775 from Marblehead in a ship crowded with refugees.
The colonists, however, sailed to the south where some buildings had already been prepared for them at a place newly named Charlestown.
However, by the time Macquarie arrived in Sydney in December 1809, both Macarthur and Johnston had already sailed for England to defend themselves.
Shortly after Mycale, the Allied fleet sailed to the Hellespont to break down the pontoon bridges, but found that this had already been done.
Once the departure of the German ships was discovered, Admiral Sir John Tovey, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet, sailed with the King George V, Victorious and their escorts to support those already at sea.
The Athenian fleet sailed for Potidaea, but when it arrived, Archestratus attacked the Macedonians instead, as the Potidaeans had already revolted and allied with Perdiccas.
Torrington sailed from the Nore already convinced the French would be stronger – much of the Royal Navy had been diverted to protect their maritime commerce from privateers, and the Allied fleet now only had 56 English and Dutch ships of the line, totalling 4, 153 guns, to Tourville's fleet of 4, 600 guns.
However, by the time this letter arrived in Havana, Muir had already sailed for Spain.
Louis, already Duke of Anjou, was in this group and sailed to England in October 1360.
When a submarine sailor ordered to serve a tour ashore returns to sea duty ( or whenever ordered from boat to another submarine of a class on which he has not already sailed and earned his qualifications ), he is again required to " re-qualify " on the new submarine, but will never again be a NUB or Non-qualified Useless Body.
As Walker's Group had already sailed, the sailors who undertook the procession and funeral and burial at sea were mostly Canadian.
* Fire ship: A ship loaded with flammable materials and explosives and sailed into an enemy port or fleet either already burning or ready to be set alight by its crew ( who would then abandon it ) in order to collide with and set fire to enemy ships.
Some supported the move believing they were simply professional sailors who had already previously sailed in non-New Zealand campaigns in other sailing events ( including Butterworth's own participation in the 1983 Australian team in the America's Cup ), while many others regarded this move as a betrayal particularly since the America's Cup was-at that time-running with predominantly nationality-based teams.
From Butuan the fleet sailed for Cebu making a brief stop at a way station he called " Dimasaua ", an invented word meaning " this is not the Mazagua of Antonio de Herrera where supposedly an Easter Sunday mass was held which I already said happened in Butuan.
Unfortunately the Guelderland had already sailed, so during the night the British sent in boats in an attempt to attack other shipping in the harbour.
They sailed to the Washington area and, together with Royal Marines already under Cockburn's command, Ross landed at Benedict, Maryland on August 19.
After looking for Vandalia at Madeira, Tenerife, and Porto Praia, Somers arrived at Monrovia, Liberia, on November 10 only to discover that the frigate had already sailed for home.
In 36 BC Mark Antony abandoned Octavia and her children in Rome and sailed to Alexandria to rejoin his former lover Cleopatra VII ( they had already met in 41 BC and had twins ).
According to tradition, Norman's grandmother sailed to Montreal in 1779 to meet her husband, but by the time she got there he was already dead.

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