On the way to the fort, he defeated three ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Hudson's Bay, the largest naval battle in the history of the North American Arctic.

1580 a small fort, Skansin, was built by the Faroese naval hero and trader Magnus Heinason at the north end of the harbour.

There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.

Various articles in publications like Florida Historical Quarterly relate how the fort site later held a Government " naval " hospital to meet yellow fever emergencies in the merchant marine.

Within sight of the fort, the first naval battle of the American Revolution took place on 14 May 1775.

As Denmark needed a naval base in the central Baltic Sea, a fort was built on Christiansø and Frederiksø in 1684 which served as an outpost for the Danish Navy until 1855.

Housed in a 17th century stone fort and tower, this museum presents a collection of Napoleonic memorabilia, paintings and naval models.

Pontchartrain, the minister for naval affairs and colonies gave Iberville the task of relocating the mouth of the Mississippi which La Salle had failed to find on his last voyage and to build a fort which would block the river to other nations.

An American force supported by a naval flotilla landed on the lake shore to the west, defeated the defending British force and captured the fort, town and dockyard.

The Marathas seized the fort, seeking to turn it into a naval base, but in April 1682 were ejected from the fort by a detachment of 200 Portuguese.

Outside the fort were built other structures, namely: a military infirmary, school, ayuntamiento ( city hall ), corps of engineers ’ building, storehouses and dependencies of the naval station, barracks for the marine infantry, gunpowder storehouse, and the Jesuit church and convent.

The fort and naval hospital were demolished in 20th century, when they were reduced to rubble by American bombs during World War II.

In fact, Datu Mursalun and his family watched, without much interest, the American bombings of the Spanish fort and naval hospital in Isabela which signaled the retaking of Basilan by joint Filipino and American troops in 1945.

The fort had been designed to withstand a naval assault, and naval warships of the time did not mount guns capable of elevating to shoot over the walls of the fort ; however, the land-based cannons manned by the Confederates were capable of landing such indirect fire on Fort Sumter.

From here it passed to the naval fort of Trekroner guarding the harbour of Copenhagen.

A combination of effective naval gunfire and the poor siting of the fort, almost completely inundated by rising river waters, caused its commander, Brig.

) On February 14, U. S. Navy gunboats under Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote attempted to reduce the fort with naval gunfire, but were forced to withdraw after sustaining heavy damage from Donelson's water batteries.

The fort was strategically positioned to protect New York City from naval attack through Long Island Sound, guarding the eastern entrance to New York Harbor.

The naval squadron suffered greatly due to musket-fire from the fort.

Also within sight of the fort, the first naval battle of the American Revolution took place on May 14, 1775.

Sheerness began as a fort built in the 16th century to protect the River Medway from naval invasion.

Alfred also tried his hand at naval design.

Some historians have speculated that since Rome lacked advanced naval technology the design of the warships was probably copied verbatim from captured Carthaginian triremes and quinqueremes or from ships that had beached on Roman shores due to storms.

The term " frigate " implied a long hull design, which relates directly to speed ( see hull speed ) and also, in turn, helped the development of the broadside tactic in naval warfare.

The design was not a uniquely British concept as similar ships were being built around the world, nor was it uniquely intended as a counter to German naval expansion, but the effect was to immediately require Germany to reconsider its naval building program.

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.

The War Committee meeting on 15 February 1916 decided to immediately establish a standing joint naval and military committee to co-ordinate both the design and the supply of materiel for the two air services.

The naval vessel ’ s survivability is a complicated subject affecting the whole life cycle of the vessel, and should be considered from the initial design phase of every war ship.

Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.

The American Elmer Sperry followed with his own design later that year, and other nations soon realized the military importance of the invention — in an age in which naval prowess was the most significant measure of military power — and created their own gyroscope industries.

Since then, the Kamov Design Bureau ( design office prefix Ka ) has specialised in compact helicopters of coaxial rotor design, suitable for naval

For Raeder, the bigger the battleship the better, and throughout his tenure as a Commander-in-Chief, Raeder was forever pressuring naval architects to design bigger and bigger battleships ; by 1937, Raeder was planning on building 100, 000-ton battleships.

Krupp's Director of design, Professor Fritz Rausenberger, designed the Big Bertha, while the Japanese naval guns were built by the British ( as were their battleships ).

During World War I, Louis conceived a multi-hull naval armor design which incorporated buffer zones, shocks and deflectors.

The first design, also by Bolas, was another naval aircraft: the Puffin.

More successful was Bolas's next design, the Plover naval fighter, a single bay wooden biplane powered by one 436 hp Bristol Jupiter IV engine.

* 1866: Minenschiff, the first self-propelled ( locomotive ) torpedo, developed by Robert Whitehead ( to a design by Captain Luppis, Austrian Navy ), is demonstrated for the imperial naval commission on December 21.

" It appears on a design devised by the lawyer, writer, editor, encyclopedist and naval academy graduate ( 1867 ), Park Benjamin, Jr.

Also at this time a highly secret separate design office, the " X-Department ", was set up to work on Dennistoun Burney's ideas for naval aircraft.

A naval architect is an engineer who is responsible for the design, construction, and / or repair of ships, boats, other marine vessels, and offshore structures, both commercial and military, including:

In addition to this leadership role, a naval architect also has a specialist function in ensuring that a safe, economic, and seaworthy design is produced.

A further advance in military naval technology was the design of the submarine and its weapon, the torpedo.

Named for naval officer Commodore Thomas MacDonough and founded in 1823 around a traditional town square design.

The naval battle happened more by accident than by design as a result of a manoeuvre by the Allied commander-in-chief, Admiral Edward Codrington, aimed at coercing the Ottoman commander to obey Allied instructions.