England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

Shortly before this battle the Spartan navy, of which he had received the supreme command, was totally defeated off Cnidus by a powerful Persian fleet under Conon and Pharnabazus.

After traveling up the River Stour, the fleet was met by Danish vessels that numbered 13 or 16 ( sources vary on the number ) and a battle ensued.

The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

The Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

His fleet of 25 galleys was met by the Genoese ships sent by Visconti, led by Biagio Assereto.

In exchange for this support, Amyntas granted them rights to Macedonian timber, which was sent back to Athens to help fortify their fleet.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

Phillip had a very difficult time assembling the fleet which was to make the eight-month sea voyage to Australia.

However, the fleet was uncooperative.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

During the naval expansion of Aegina during the Archaic Period, Kydonia was an ideal maritime stop for Aegina's fleet on its way to other Mediterranean ports controlled by the emerging sea-power Aegina.

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian ( Herod.

At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 by which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War.

When the Greek fleet was preparing at Aulis to depart for Troy to begin the Trojan War, Artemis becalmed the winds.

The projected F6D Missileer was intended to fulfill this mission and oppose the attack far from the fleet it was defending.

Peter did not immediately intervene ; he sailed with the fleet to Tunis, where he discovered that the would-be convert on whose behalf the crusade had ostensibly been undertaken had been caught and executed.

Charles of Salerno sent a newly raised Provençal fleet to the relief of Malta ; but it was caught by the main Aragonese fleet under Roger of Lauria and destroyed in the Battle of Malta.

The Royal Navy blockaded Villeneuve in Cádiz until he left for Naples on 19 October ; the British squadron subsequently caught and overwhelmingly defeated his fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October ( the British commander, Lord Nelson, died in the battle ).

On 30 November 1853, Russian Admiral Nakhimov caught the Turkish fleet in the harbor at Sinope and destroyed the Turkish fleet.

* July – Octavian's fleet ( 102 warships ) embarked from Puteoli and tried to invade Sicily, it is caught in a storm and forced to return at Vibo.

Turning north to pursue Blake, Tromp caught up with the English fleet off the Shetland Islands but a storm scattered his ships and there was no battle.

Scipio had been caught in a storm with his fleet off Corsica, and the building of the temple was in fulfillment of a vow made in asking for deliverance.

The Athenian fleet caught up with Lysander shortly after he had taken Lampsacus, and established a base at Sestos.

In the event, the small force was immediately defeated, and the remainder of the fleet was caught unprepared on the beach.

Thus they were caught by surprise when it commenced, with submarines which might have been ordered to attack the British transports away on patrols seeking the main British fleet.

In addition, as the war caught the fleet in the middle of its expansion and reorganization, fully a third of the fleet ( the six new destroyers and the submarine Delfin ) only reached Greece after hostilities had started, necessitating a reshuffling of crews and leading to a lack of necessary familiarization and training time.

The Spanish fleet was caught by a cyclone soon after ; during a week-long storm Revenge and 15 Spanish warships and merchant vessels were lost.

They caught up with the enemy fleet again, which was hampered by towing damaged ships, and the unmanouvrable Poder was abandoned and scuttled by the French.

After the tsunami, spilled fuel from the town's fishing fleet caught fire and burned for four days.

Recent studies from the U. S. and Canada show that the albacore caught by the American albacore fishing fleet off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California have far lower mercury levels than in previous years.

However, " dolphin friendly " does not mean that dolphins were not killed in the production of a particular tin of tuna, but that the fleet which caught the tuna did not specifically target a feeding pod of dolphins, but relied on other methods to spot tuna schools.

In 425, the Athenians planned to reinforce their contingent with an additional forty triremes, but that fleet never reached Sicily, as it became caught up in the pivotal Battle of Pylos on the way there.

Whelks were caught by a small fleet of whelk boats.

The current Chilean TAC for the industrial fleet is 3, 090t that is caught by 11 vessels from 4 companies.

In 427, when they finally did send a fleet, the commander was so afraid of being caught at sea by the Athenians that he fled home without accomplishing anything.

After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.

Having abandoned a plan to occupy Sicily and North Africa after the destruction of his fleet in a storm, Alaric died as the Visigoths were marching northward.

There, Alfred blockaded them, and with a relief fleet having been scattered by a storm, the Danes were forced to submit.

Although the Romans defeated the Carthaginian fleet and were successful in rescuing its army in Africa, a storm destroyed nearly the entire Roman fleet on the trip home ; the number of casualties in the disaster may have exceeded 90, 000 men.

* 254 BC: A new fleet of 140 Roman ships is constructed to substitute the one lost in the storm and a new army is levied.

With his main objectives reached and with winter approaching Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet occasioning some damage by a storm in the North Sea.

During the night, a fierce storm destroyed his fleet and about a third of his men were lost.

The party arrives in Cyprus to find that a storm has destroyed the Turkish fleet.

But a storm dispersed the fleet.

But a sortie of the garrison of Astrakhan drove back the besiegers ; a Russian relief army of 15, 000 attacked and scattered the workmen and the Tatar force sent for their protection ; and finally, the Ottoman fleet was destroyed by a storm.

A previous pro-Carthaginian uprising had been defeated while a storm had blown the Carthaginian fleet to the Balearic Islands.

A storm fell on the returning fleet off Tenos island.

This ship was blown off course by a storm, and ended up at Naxos, which an Athenian fleet was in the process of besieging.

Book 1 ( at the head of the Odyssean section ) opens with a storm which Juno, Aeneas ' enemy throughout the poem, stirs up against the fleet.

The fleet however is struck by a storm on its way back and loses many ships, while the Chersonites, again with the aid of the Khazars, rebel anew.

But a storm destroyed his Gothic fleet and many of his soldiers drowned.

* 1274 – November 20 – The Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan attempts the first of several invasions of Japan ; after capturing outlying islands, the Yuan forces are repulsed on the main island at the Battle of Bun ' ei by amassed Japanese warriors and a strong storm which batters their forces and fleet.

His flagship Ville de Paris was lost at sea in a storm while being conducted back to England as part of a fleet commanded by Admiral Graves.

Illness continued to plague the army, however, and a storm devastated the fleet of 18 men-of-war and innumerable smaller vessels as it returned to Sicily.

With his main objectives reached and winter approaching, Germanicus ordered his army back to their winter camps, with the fleet incurring some damage from a storm in the North Sea.

* November 20 – Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty attempts the first of several invasions of Japan ( 30, 000 soldiers and support personnel sails from Korea ); after the Mongols capture outlying islands, they are repulsed on the main island at the Battle of Bun ' ei by amassed Japanese warriors and a strong storm which batters their forces and fleet.

In 1009 Wulfnoth was accused of unknown crimes at a muster of Æthelred the Unready's fleet and fled with twenty ships ; the ships sent to pursue him were destroyed in a storm.

The fleet of more or less seventy ships rusn into a storm in the Mediterranean and is never seen again.