The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.

He saw them in fleet images as they came rolling and now burst across the ridge.

Although he now had enough ships to challenge the French fleet, Nelson suffered two great disadvantages: he had no intelligence regarding the destination of the French, and no frigates to scout ahead of his force.

Shortly after the French order to set sails was abandoned, the British fleet began rapidly approaching once more and Brueys, now expecting to come under attack on that night, ordered each of his ships to also place springs on their anchor cables and prepare for action.

Cleopatra now earnestly advised that garrisons should be put into strong towns, and that the main fleet should return to Alexandria.

A navy now had the potential to destroy a superior enemy battle fleet using steam launches to drop torpedoes.

Port-Gentil is now the center of operations for the industrial fleet.

A peace with Sparta might have been possible, but the Athenian fleet, now based on the island of Samos, refused to accept the change.

In 1987 the Navy consisted ( as it does now ) of the naval headquarters in Beijing ; three fleet commands – the North Sea Fleet, based at Qingdao, Shandong ; the East Sea Fleet, based at Ningbo ; and the South Sea Fleet, based at Zhanjiang, Guangdong – and about 2, 000 ships.

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia describes a fleet of sixteen ships and five hundred Osilians ravaging the area that is now southern Sweden, then belonging to Denmark.

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.

The introduction of MIRV systems dramatically upset this in the favour of the attack ; missiles now carried several warheads that would be dispersed over wide areas, so now every new ICBM built would require a small fleet of ABMs to counter it.

Aristides told Themistocles that the Persian fleet had encircled the Allies, which greatly pleased Themistocles, as he now knew that the Persians had walked into his trap.

* June – James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin ( now Aceh ), Sumatra to deal with the local ruler.

Since either of these options would require the assistance of the French fleet then in the West Indies, a ship was dispatched to meet with French Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse who was expected at Cap-Français ( now known as Cap-Haïtien, Haiti ), outlining the possibilities and requesting his assistance.

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

Since the space shuttle fleet has retired ( while Hubble still has many years of service life ahead ), there will be no existing or planned spacecraft capable of returning the Hubble to Earth intact, so it is now very unlikely it will ever be on the ground again.

On the outgoing journey, sailing with the summer monsoon wind, it had taken Gama's fleet only 23 days to cross the Indian Ocean ; now, on the return trip, sailing against the wind, it took 132 days.

But this hope failed, as the Cypriot towns and the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, who possessed a large fleet, now preferred to join the Persians, and the commander of the Greek troops, Phanes of Halicarnassus, went over to them.

The simultaneous Battle of Artemisium was up to that point a stalemate ; however, when news of Thermopylae reached them, the Allied fleet also retreated, since holding the straits of Artemisium was now a moot point.

The Allied fleet now sailed from Artemisium to Salamis to assist with the final evacuation of Athens ; en route Themistocles left inscriptions addressed to the Ionian Greek crews of the Persian fleet on all springs of water that they might stop at, asking them to defect to the Allied cause.

Raeder further added that now was the best time for Japan to enter the war because with " the whole English fleet contained, the unpreparedness of the USA for war with Japan and the inferiority of the U. S. fleet compared to the Japanese ".

Returning to the fleet at the Tagus in late April 1798, he was ordered to collect the squadron stationed at Gibraltar and sail for the Ligurian Sea.

This was partly a consequence of his ships being stationed at Rosyth, rather than Scapa Flow with the main fleet, since local facilities at Rosyth were limited, but this was a problem identified months before Jutland which Beatty had failed to correct.

Some fleet units are stationed in the Red Sea, but the bulk of the force remains in the Mediterranean.

Sinon, an Achaean spy, signaled the fleet stationed at Tenedos when " it was midnight and the clear moon was rising " and the soldiers from inside the horse emerged and killed the guards.

The fleet is stationed in the Lake of Tunis.

On 9 August, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft, commander of the 1st Pacific Squadron, was ordered to sortie his fleet to Vladivostok, link up with the Squadron stationed there, and then engage the IJN in decisive battle.

* Philip V of Macedon captures Samos and the Egyptian fleet stationed there.

La Rochelle was for the Templars their largest base on the Atlantic Ocean, and where they stationed their main fleet.

His forces comprised not only his fleet, augmented by new ships he had built, and the three legions stationed in Britain, but a legion he had seized in Gaul, a number of foreign auxiliary units, a levy of Gaulish merchant ships, and barbarian mercenaries attracted by the prospect of booty.

During the American Civil War the Confederate States had a small fleet stationed at Elizabeth City.

A Reserve Division was stationed behind ( that is, to the west of ) the main fleet, to lend support wherever it might be needed.

On the far right, General Bousquet's division, supported by the guns of the French fleet, crossed the river, scaled the cliffs and were able to expel the Russian infantry and artillery stationed there.

Finally in May 1853, Aberdeen was forced to make a show of force, by sending a fleet under Admiral Armar Lowry Corry stationed in the Bay of Biscay to the island of Malta to join up with a squadron under Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas.

The war began with a surprise attack on the Russian Eastern fleet stationed at Port Arthur, which was followed by the Battle of Port Arthur.

Several US Navy destroyers were stationed offshore near Guantánamo Bay to give the appearance of an impending invasion fleet.

Any German ships seeking to leave their home ports on the German coast must either pass the-wide Straits of Dover, defended by British submarines and mines, or the North Sea, where the British fleet was stationed around its main wartime base at Scapa Flow in Scotland, defending the-wide narrowest point between Britain and Norway.

Not risking an assault, Ireton systematically constructed trenches to bring his siege guns within range of the walls and stationed a Parliamentary fleet off the city to prevent its re-supply.

Swedish galley fleet was stationed east of Helsingfors but judged its position to be untenable and withdraw into the town as well allowing Russian galley fleet to completely surround the town after 20 August.

Per Royal Navy Lieutenant William Ferdinand Tyler, stationed on the Dingyuan, Admiral Ding ordered his ships to change course in such a way that would have exposed his ship, the flagship, but put the rest of the squadron in a good position to fire on the Japanese fleet ; however, that Dingyuan ’ s captain out of cowardice deliberately did not acknowledge this order or pass it on to the rest of the fleet.

However, in 330, the capital of the Empire was transferred to Constantinople, so with the fleet that stationed at Ravenna, thus weakened the coastal defence in the Adriatic.

: Hernando de Heredia, Rio de la Hacha public notary and councilman hereby stated: During the course of the first 19 days of May, Sir Juan Haquines, commander of the English fleet stationed in Rio de la Hacha, carried out commercial operations with all residents by trading slaves and goods ...

In 1995, Royal Roads Military College at Hatley Memorial Park on the Esquimalt Lagoon, where Canada's Pacific naval fleet is stationed, was closed and the government of British Columbia granted Royal Roads University license to open as a public university with an applied and professional focus.

Lee was buried with full military honors provided by an American fleet stationed near St. Marys.