In the early 1970s, setbacks to US military capabilities in the region including the fall of Saigon, victory of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the closure of the Peshawar Air Station listening post in Pakistan and Kagnew Station in Ethiopia, the Mayaguez incident, and the build-up of Soviet Naval presence in Aden and a Soviet Air Base at Berbera, Somalia, caused the US to request, and the UK to approve, permission to build a fleet anchorage and enlarged airfield on Diego Garcia, and the Seabees doubled the number of workers constructing these facilities.

In 1513, the first Portuguese trading fleet to reach Maluku set up a trading post on Bacan which at the time was subservient to the Sultan of Ternate.

He was intended, by the King and Queen, for the office of Lord High Admiral, and, in 1740, he sailed, as a volunteer, in the fleet under the command of Sir John Norris, but he quickly became dissatisfied with the Navy, and, instead secured the post of colonel of the First Regiment of Foot Guards on 20 February 1741.

In the post war period the RNZAF dealt progressively with demobilisation and disposal of its large obsolete fleet, rearmament to support the cold war, some loss of training opportunities with the American suspension of ANZUS Treaty obligations in protest at New Zealand becoming a nuclear free zone, social changes which saw women become combat pilots, and most recently loss of fast jets as part of the continuing funding cuts, that have seen the air force decline from over a thousand aircraft to just fifty.

However on 7 June Russian fleet led by Admiral Nikolai Fedorovich Golovin managed to draw Swedish fleet out of its post while not actually surrendering into a fight.

* Mail ( The UK post office operates a fleet of 33, 000 bicycles, mainly the Pashley MailStar )

The Leningrad Post Association was created in 1988, and included the General Leningrad Post-Office, 13 regional post offices, 345 post offices, 11 automatized post offices, and a fleet of cars.

He tried to initiate some reforms that would contribute towards Self-Strengthening: he advocated for the establishment of a national mint and post office, as well as trying to help China organize a modern naval fleet.

Also, during his four years in this post, several of the large Forrestal class aircraft carriers entered the U. S. Navy's fleet to give it a large amount of conventional and nuclear striking power, especially in the Western Pacific Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea.

This is necessary because any one of an entire fleet of ambulances, for example, could be pressed into service as command post at a major incident.

When he learns that the Narn have diverted the majority of their fleet to destroy a vital supply post on Gorash 7, he needles Londo into tasking his Shadow forces to destroy the fleet so that the Centauri forces have a clear line of attack on the Narn homeworld.

Brunei is understood to have a fleet of 19 CVR ( T ) s, which comprises 16 Scorpions, two Sultan command post variants and one Samson armoured recovery vehicle.

He was the Russian plenipotentiary at the Peace of Adrianople, and in 1833 was appointed Russian ambassador at Constantinople, holding at the same time the post of commander-in-chief of the Black Sea fleet.

In 1578 Cecilia became involved with the Spanish ambassador, Francisco de Eraso, to give her fleet of pirates to the Spanish King in exchange for the post of governor in Luxembourg or some other Spanish province.

Historical fleet ( post war ):

Upon receiving his new post, Shepard discovers Lütjens is the fleet commander on the Bismarck.

A Escort Destroyer ( DDE ) is a US Navy post World War II classification for destroyers ( DD ) modified for and assigned to a fleet escort role.

Unlike a " captain of the fleet ", a flag-captain was generally a fairly junior post-captain, as he had the Admiral to keep an eye on him, but – like a " captain of the fleet " – a " flag captain " was a post rather than a rank.

It also contained a summer garden, winter garden and roof garden, an enormous restaurant and several smaller eating areas, its own laundry, a theatre and concert booking office, its own bank, whose strongrooms were underground at the eastern end of the building ( and generated their own history decades later ), and a large fleet of private delivery vehicles.

A computer system in the central office manages the fleet in real time under control of a team of dispatchers.

n. Nero, consul in 202 BC, had Africa as his province ; but his fleet was delayed by storms, and he was forced to winter in Sardinia until the expiration of his year of office.

The office was created by Alexios I Komnenos, when he amalgamated the remnants of the imperial and thematic fleets into a single imperial fleet.

The hangar and accompanying office area nearly doubles space at the site, allowing Gulfstream Luton technicians to more efficiently service Gulfstream ’ s entire fleet, including the all-new G650, the company ’ s flagship aircraft.

Prior to holding elected office Sullivan worked in the private sector for Love Travel Centers as a Regional Sales Manager and for BAMA Transportation as a fleet manager.

The office was then tasked with the command of fleet units operating as transports, blockade runners, auxiliary cruisers and supply shipping.

The 1952-1953 edition of Jane's All The World's Aircraft lists the head office address as Suite 309, Kass Building, 711 14th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., with the footnote that the company had reregistered in the U. S. The president is given as Whiting Willauer, and the fleet, which consisted of 23 Curtiss C-46 Commando and 4 Douglas DC-3 aircraft.

They provide communications, office space, and accommodations for a fleet commander and his staff, and serve to coordinate fleet activities.

In the Byzantine navy, doukes of the fleet appear in the 1070s, and the office of megas doux (" grand duke ") was created in the 1090s as the commander-in-chief of the entire navy.

He accepted the office of assistant-secretary on board Admiral Geary's flagship, and made two cruises with the grand fleet.

In 2005 PDVSA opened its first office in China, and announced plans to nearly triple its fleet of oil tankers, to 58.

During her time in office, Bentley was a strong advocate for protectionist trade policies in support of U. S. manufacturing and the U. S. Merchant Marine fleet.

Although the FAM received 18 surplus Bell 206s from the Attorney General's office ( PGR ) in the mid-1990s, the main need identified by the FAM High Command was for a new fleet of transport helicopters that would allow it to support the Army with an adequate airlift capability.

The company often uses its fleet of six open-top buses on these routes during the summer, although usually only two are used with the roofs removed and three are used for sightseeing around the city, with one as the ticket office ( Scania Citizen 781 and Dennis Trident 808 both now permanent open-top ).

Instead he was employed at the Nortraship office in Montreal, negotiating with American authorities about renewals of the Norwegian fleet, repairs and indemnity.

She was the daughter of the Saite Period twenty-sixth dynasty Egyptian king Psamtik I. Psamtik I dispatched a powerful naval fleet in March 656 BC to Thebes and compelled the serving God's Wife of Amun Shepenupet II, a daughter of Piye to adopt his daughter Nitocris I as her heir to this office in the well known Adoption Stela.

In his sworn affidavit, Durai said that the office fleet was used by officers who had to visit NKF facilities to attend to the needs of the centres and patients.

After the fleet is reunited after their escape from New Caprica, Vice President Tom Zarek ascends to the presidency in light of Baltar's abandonment of the office during the exodus.

* 363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships.

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.

However, the submarine fleet was greatly expanded and posed a major threat to the British supply system.

They took part in fleet actions and they worked in smaller groups and singly to harry enemy supply lines.

The Vandal fleet raid the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, and blockade the grain and oil supply to Italy.

Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships.

* Julian builds in Gaul a fleet to secure the corn supply from Britain for the garrisons ( castella ) of the Rhine.

Naval planners informed Raeder that the Z Plan fleet would require ten million cubic metres of storage to be built in order to supply enough oil to last a year.

Cyrus, being especially pleased, once again started to supply the Spartan fleet with cash-even allowing Lysander to run his satrapy in his absence.

Alarmed by the sudden reappearance of something resembling the Athenian empire that had driven them from the Aegean in the 5th century BC, the Persians began supporting Sparta, and a Persian fleet was soon in the Hellespont, threatening Athens ' grain supply.

Tryon and Henry Duncan led a fleet of 26 ships carrying 2, 000 men to Westport's Compo Beach to raid Continental Army supply depots in Danbury on April 22, 1777.

In July 1816, a supply fleet for Fort Scott reached the Apalachicola River.

The supply fleet met Clinch at the Negro Fort, and its two gunboats took positions across the river from the fort.

Probably the best-known explanation holds that when an early group of Jamestown colonists left to return to England after the Starving Time during the winter of 1609 – 1610 aboard a ship of Captain Christopher Newport, they encountered another fleet of supply ships under the new Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr in the James River off Mulberry Island with reinforcements of men and supplies.

During the siege in Fredrikshald the Swedish supply fleet was defeated by Tordenskjold at the Battle of Dynekilen.

Within the camp was everything imaginable to run a large oil and gas company: a rail spur from the line running through Taft, steel and timber for derrick construction and maintenance, pipe, valves, numerous offices, an expansive and highly specialized machine shop, a plethora of supply shops, the car and truck fleet, bunkhouses for workers, and dozens of company homes for employees.

The French fleet never arrived, because France's naval hopes were smashed at Quiberon Bay the previous fall and the few supply ships sent from France were lost in the Bay of Chaleur in the Battle of Restigouche.

Prior to the arrival of the British, a small fleet of supply ships had arrived in Quebec with much-needed supplies.

By 1916, after the Battle of Jutland, the Germans were forced to concede that the Imperial German Navy's surface fleet could not challenge the strength of the Royal Navy on the high seas, so great faith was placed in the U-Boat to strangle British supply lines in the Atlantic.

Because Porto Alegre has a ready supply of natural gas, the city's taxi fleet is gradually being converted to it from gasoline.

Calm winds and French booms prevented him from sailing his fleet of 30 warships, nine supply ships, and 15 transports into the harbor.

* The supply ship Altmark played by the fleet oiler Olna.

Pashley continues to supply the Royal Mail although vans and trolleys are replacing much of the bike fleet.