Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

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?

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

* 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.

" Historian and novelist C. S. Forester, writing in 1929, compared the Nile to the great naval actions in history and concluded that " it still only stands rivalled by Tsu-Shima as an example of the annihilation of one fleet by another of approximately equal material force ".

As an undergraduate, Parkinson developed an interest in naval history, which he pursued when the Pellew family gave him access to family papers at the recently established National Maritime Museum.

* 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF. 7 hydroplane.

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.

After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

On 3 May 1945, one of the biggest disasters in naval history occurred in the Bay of Lübeck when RAF bombers sank three ships-the SS Cap Arcona, the SS Deutschland, and the SS Thielbek-which, unknown to them, were packed with concentration-camp inmates.

The United States had a long history of intervening in Liberia's internal affairs, occasionally sending naval vessels to help the Americo-Liberian ( freed slave ) ruling minority put down insurrections by indigenous tribes ( in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910, and 1915 ).

The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.

* 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.

However, his naval forces had a history of failure against the Romans.

Roosevelt had always been fascinated by naval history.

* The Battle of Lake Poyang, a naval conflict between Chinese rebel groups led by Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, took place in August to October of 1363, and was one of the largest naval battles in history.

* 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.

* 1132: The Southern Song Dynasty establishes China's first permanent standing navy, although China had a long naval history prior.

** WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.

" China has an ongoing military-military relationship with Cameroon, which includes training for Cameroonian military students each year in China, technical advisors to assist in repairing Cameroonian military vehicles and naval vessels, and Chinese military sales.

Between October and December 1928 a number of naval families, including Hubbard's, traveled from Guam to China aboard the USS Gold Star.

The Chinese also employed the use of the naval mine at sea and on the rivers of China and elsewhere in maritime battles.

However, after 1986, China withdrew support for the CPB and began supplying the military junta with the majority of its arms in exchange for increased access to Burmese markets and a rumoured naval base on Coco Islands in the Andaman Sea.

China is supposed to have an intelligence gathering station on the Great Coco Island to monitor Indian naval activity as well as ISRO & DRDO missile and space launch activities.

In ancient China, large naval battles were known since the Qin Dynasty ( also see Battle of Red Cliffs, 208 ), employing the war junk during the Han Dynasty.

The People's Liberation Army Navy ( PLAN or PLA Navy ) is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army, the armed forces of the People's Republic of China.

By 1954 an estimated 2, 500 Soviet naval advisers were in China — possibly one adviser to every thirty Chinese naval personnel — and the Soviet Union began providing modern ships.

Examples of the expansion of China's capabilities were the 1980 recovery of an intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) in the Western Pacific by a twenty-ship fleet, extended naval operations in the South China Sea in 1984 and 1985, and the visit of two naval ships to three South Asian nations in 1985.

According to the Western news media the base is reportedly to help China project seapower well into the Pacific Ocean area, including challenging United States naval power.

In 1998 China purchased the discarded Ukrainian ship Varyag and began retrofitting it for naval deployment.

In ancient China, sieges of city walls ( along with naval battles ) were portrayed on bronze ' hu ' vessels, like those found in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1965 which have been dated to the Warring States Period ( 5th century BC to 3rd century BC ).

In China, by the time of the Zhou Dynasty ship technologies such as stern mounted rudders were developed, and by the Han Dynasty, a well kept naval fleet was an integral part of the military.

The Seychelles government in November 2011 offered China rights to establish a naval base to supply its anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden.

One of the oldest references to the mobile siege tower in ancient China was ironically a written dialogue primarily discussing naval warfare.

:“ To the assistance and information which you and Mr. Jardine so handsomely afforded us it was mainly owing that we were able to give our affairs naval, military and diplomatic, in China those detailed instructions which have led to these satisfactory results .”

** Routine U. S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin.

* 663: The Tang Dynasty of China and Korean Silla Kingdom gain victory against the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies in the naval Battle of Baekgang.

* Japan signs a naval arms limitation treaty with the Western powers and returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.

* After the completion of the Grand Canal of China, Emperor Yang of Sui led a recorded long naval flotilla of ships from the north down to his southern capital at Yangzhou.