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Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from this base which was also a major base for German U-boats as headquarters of 12th U-boat Flotilla.

The first shot of the war at sea was fired on 5 August 1914 by a destroyer of the 2nd Flotilla,, in an engagement with the German auxiliary minelayer.

When war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten became commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla aboard his ship Kelly, which was famous for its many daring exploits.

On the night 9 May / 10 May 1940, Kelly was torpedoed amidships by a German E-boat S 31 of the Dutch coast and Mountbatten subsequently commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin.

Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was also in service along the Ayeyarwady River in the 20th century, until 2003.

*, a block sloop in commission from 1812 to 1814 that was part of Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla in the War of 1812

In 1731 the Siberian Military Flotilla was established here.

Italy's most renowned commando unit of World War II was Decima Flottiglia MAS (" 10th Assault Vehicle Flotilla "), which, from mid-1940, sank or damaged a considerable tonnage of Allied ships in the Mediterranean.

The larger, newer bunker was built from 1979 to 1986 and acted as a command post for the Sixth Flotilla, stationed on Bug, and the Baltic Fleet ( VOF ).

Late in 1915, Bristol was assigned the duties of aide and torpedo officer on the staff of Commander, Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet and, in the winter of 1916, he became aide and flag secretary to the Commander, Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet.

* The was a 3-gun sloop purchased April 1813 at Philadelphia and attached to the Delaware Flotilla.

Flotilla Admiral Otto Kretschmer ( 1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998 ) was a German U-boat commander in the Second World War and later an admiral in the Bundesmarine.

However, in August 1944, when Romania left the Axis, the 30th Flotilla was stranded with no way to return to Germany.

In support of these wars, New Zealand developed its first " navy ", the Waikato Flotilla, run by an Australian Francis Cadell who was recognised for his spendid service by the presentation by the New Zealand government of a gold watch and diamonds.

In 2011, Feiler was involved in the Freedom Flotilla II, and was among the 15 activists arrested by Israeli authorities aboard the boat Dignité.

This was cancelled, however, and he took command of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla which consisted of two destroyers, HMS Broke and HMS Malcolm, assigned to Operation Torch, the allied invasion of French North Africa.

In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town, especially after Tsar Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696.

She served with the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla and as a convoy escort in World War I and was broken up in 1922.

In April 1945, the British 4th Submarine Flotilla was transferred to the major Allied submarine base at Fremantle, Western Australia, as part of BPF.

Italy was allied to the Axis powers during World War II and Massawa was the homeport for the Red Sea Flotilla of the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina ).

The Waikato Flotilla operated from 1860, and at the same time a Naval Artillery Volunteer corps was established to provide harbour defence.

In early June, this was swept aside by the gunboats of the Western Gunboat Flotilla ( soon thereafter to be transformed into the Mississippi River Squadron ) and a collection of War Department rams, and the Mississippi was open down to Vicksburg.

* 10th Flotilla:, and commanded by Commander Hec.

* 14th Flotilla:,, and commanded by Philip Mack

The heavy cruisers Trieste ( carrying Vice-Admiral Luigi Sansonetti ), Trento and Bolzano were accompanied by three destroyers of the 12th Flotilla ( Ascari, Corazziere and Carabiniere ), plus the light cruisers ( Vice-Admiral A. Legnano ) and ( 7th cruiser division ) and two destroyers of the 16th Flotilla ( namely Emanuele Pessagno and Nicoloso de Recco ) from Brindisi.

The military section of the airport is currently used by the 90th Airlift Flotilla of the Romanian Air Force.

In August 1814, Commodore Joshua Barney and his Chesapeake Bay Flotilla were trapped in the Patuxent by the British fleet under Admiral Sir George Cockburn.

Supported by the 6th Destroyer Flotilla and two troop transports of the Royal Navy, the force made an unopposed landing and generally continued to meet no opposition.

On May 15 – 16, 1945, the British executed Operation Dukedom and the 26th Destroyer Flotilla ( HMS Saumarez, Venus, Verulam, Vigilant and Virago ) sank the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro in the Malacca Straits by torpedo attack.

Named Kommuna and towed by a sidewheel paddle tug, she and her aircraft actively support operations of the Bolshevik Volga River Flotilla during the Russian Civil War.

The Federal gunboats were members of the Western Gunboat Flotilla, commanded directly by Flag Officer Charles H. Davis, who reported to Major General Henry W. Halleck.

On the night of 15 / 16 April 1941 Axis ships were intercepted by Commander P. J Mack's 14th Destroyer Flotilla, comprising destroyers, HMS Janus, Jervis, Mohawk, Juno and Nubian.

The number fired by the 10th Flotilla was 1, 289, with a hit rate of 30 per cent.

* Battle of Ushant ( 1944 ), a battle among the British, Canadian and Polish destroyers of the 10th Flotilla and the German destroyers of the 8th Narvik Flotilla, won by the allies

He commanded the James River Flotilla, including the USS Galena, the ironclad, and the 90-day gunboat in an expedition up the James River in May 1862, which was stopped eight miles shy of Richmond by Confederate fortifications at Drewry's Bluff.

Meanwhile, Terran Federation Survey Flotilla 19, last seen headed into unknown space and cut off from Alliance territory by the Bug counter-offensive, runs a desperate gauntlet to try and find a way back to friendly territory, whilst fending off almost continuous Bug attacks.

Attached to Layforce they moved to the Middle East, they later worked with the 1st Submarine Flotilla based at Alexandria and carried out beach reconnaissance of Rhodes, evacuated troops left behind on Crete and a number of small-scale raids and other operations.

In 1964 U. S. Navy seventh fleet reconnaissance aircraft, the seaplane tender Currituck ( AV-7 ), and Mine Flotilla 1 units carried out hydrographic and beach surveys and explored sites for facilities ashore.

As a Commander in the Kriegsmarine, Bey led the 4th Destroyer Flotilla, consisting of the destroyers Z11 Bernd von Arnim, Z12 Erich Giese and Z13 Erich Koellner, as part of Commodore Friedrich Bonte's force that carried General Eduard Dietl's mountain troops for the occupation of Narvik during the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940.

The leader of the 12th Flotilla, Fearless loomed out of the mist and collided with K17 which sank within a few minutes, although most of her crew were able to jump overboard.

Recently, Cherif has spoken out in support of the Gaza Flotilla.

In 1773 the vessels of the Azov Flotilla ( created anew in 1771 ) sailed out into the Black Sea.

He was particularly active during the War of 1812, carrying out several successful attacks on American towns and shipping in the Penobscot River region, and helping to destroy the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla.