In addition, the decreasing strategic importance of Malta to the Royal Navy meant that the British government was increasingly reluctant to maintain the naval dockyards.

Rochford ’ s alertness uncovered a French plot to set fire to British naval dockyards, a scheme which was postponed until 1770.

Pepys ' job as a naval administrator brought him into daily contact with the naval dockyards and he was responsible for various aspects of their administration.

In doing so, they ran the six major naval dockyards in England, Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Plymouth, as well as smaller operations elsewhere.

* March 20 – The Luftwaffes Fliegerkorps II further escalates its bombing campaign against Malta as truly massive air raids begin with a goal of forcing the islands antiaircraft artillery to exhaust its ammunition and personnel, followed by large attacks on airfields and aircraft on the ground, and finally the destruction of naval forces, dockyards, and other military installations.

The Raid on the Medway, sometimes called the Battle of the Medway, Raid on Chatham or the Battle of Chatham, was a successful Dutch attack on the largest English naval ships, laid up in the dockyards of their main naval base Chatham, that took place in June 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Among other public buildings are the naval hospital, the British seamen's hospital ( established in 1867 ), the civic hospital, admiralty ( founded 1785 ), arsenal, dockyards and foundries, school of marine engineering, and the English church.

Lever's familiar expression, " MATTHEW WALKER ' S KNOT ," suggests that he may have known the inventor, who was possibly a master rigger in one of the British naval dockyards.

Its brief was to enquire into the state and sufficiency of fortifications existing and planned for defending the UK, with a specific focus on naval dockyards.

The DP-64 is a Russian special-purpose double-barreled over / under grenade launcher designed to protect ships, dockyards, water development works, and other coastal installations from combat swimmers and naval special forces.

The Royal Navy remained the primary naval force in Australian waters until 1913, when the Australia Station ceased and responsibility handed over to the Royal Australian Navy ; the Royal Navy's depots, dockyards and structures were gifted to the Australian people.

It was built on the former site of the Hong Kong naval dockyards, which was built in 1878 and demolished in the 1970s.

He was self-taught and his leanings towards monumental, metallic sculptures may have been influenced by the sights he grew up with in the naval dockyards.

By 1942, the island had one " Major Full Time Battery " of two 6 " guns covering the North side of the island, two 6 " guns covering the South side and the water between the island and Leith, a further two 6 " guns in the West Fort, and two 9. 2 " guns, tasked to defend the dockyards further upstream against naval bombardment.

The civil branches of the navy tributary to the controller are those of the director of naval construction, the engineer-in-chief, the directors of naval ordnance, of dockyards and of stores, and the inspector of dockyard expense accounts.

It deserves to be noticed, however, that a certain obscurity exists in regard, to the relative duties of the director of naval construction and the director of dockyards touching constructive works in the yards.

) that the responsibility of the controller devolves in regard to the management of dockyards and naval establishments at home and abroad, and to the performance of work in these estab lishments, ship and boat building, maintenance, repairs and refits.

The Naval Store Department is charged with the custody and issue of naval, as distinguished from victualling and ordnance stores, to be used in naval dockyards and establishments for the building, fitting and repairing of warships.

In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

This is causing problems for fishermen due to there being an undefined area where the naval police of each country may patrol.

The naval history of China was centered more to the south, where mountains, rivers, and large lakes necessitated the employment of a large and well-kept navy.

Although an amphibious invasion was never in question, blockading by Union naval forces was common, particularly at Halifax, where Confederate navy ships sought refuge and reprovisioning.

On the outskirts of the town is the Royal Navy's officer training college ( Britannia Royal Naval College ), where all officers of the Royal Navy and many foreign naval officers are trained.

He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

His flight ended in the court of Bithynia, where he achieved an outstanding naval victory against a fleet from Pergamon.

YY was to be a reserve position where if the weather was good enough, submarines could be diverted from XX to be sunk by naval forces.

Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain, where opportunities for career advancement were both limited and keenly sought after by ambitious officers.

Barbarossa pillaged the coast of Naples and Sicily before reaching France where Francis made Toulon the Ottoman admirals naval headquarters.

He attended Harvard University, where he studied biology, boxed and developed an interest in naval affairs.

The first large-scale naval battle where triremes participated was the Battle of Lade during the Ionian Revolt, where the combined fleets of the Greek Ionian cities were defeated by the Persian fleet, composed of squadrons from their Phoenician, Carian, Cypriot and Egyptian subjects.

However, the decisive naval clash occurred at Salamis, where Xerxes ' invasion fleet was decisively defeated.

In 1781, the combined action of Continental and French land and naval forces trapped the British army on the Virginia Peninsula, where troops under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau defeated British General Cornwallis in the Siege of Yorktown.

The President was more successful in Argentina, where agreements were reached whereby the U. S. provided loans to enable Argentina to acquire battleships ; some naval construction and design secrets were sacrificed in the arrangement.

* May 8 – WWII: The Battle of the Coral Sea ( first battle in naval history where 2 enemy fleets fight without seeing each other's fleets ) ends in an Allied victory.

* In 919, the first use of gunpowder in battle occurred with the Chinese Battle of Lang-shan Jiang ( Wolf Mountain River ), where the naval fleet of the Wen-Mu-King defeated Chien Yuan Kuan because Wen had used ' fire oil ' ( huo yóu, 火油 ) of gunpowder-fuse ignited flamethrowers to burn Chien's fleet.

Utzon was born in Copenhagen, the son of a naval engineer, and grew up in Aalborg, Denmark, where he became interested in ships and a possible naval career.

HEU is also used in fast neutron reactors, whose cores require about 20 % or more of fissile material, as well as in naval reactors, where it often contains at least 50 % < sup > 235 </ sup > U, but typically does not exceed 90 %.

Nautilus sailed with Preble on 6 October to Tangier where the display of American naval strength induced the Europeans of Morocco to renew the treaty of 1786.

The bunker is the secure, undisclosed location where former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9 / 11 attacks: according to Clift's report, entitled " Shining Light on Cheney's Hideaway " Biden said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.

The French Marines and naval infantry tasked with the invasion of northern Germany were subsequently dispatched to bolster the French Army of Châlons, where they were captured at the Battle of Sedan along with Napoleon III.