The navy's priority re-equipment plans for the 1990s included the receipt of new Inhaúma-class corvettes, the construction of Tupi-class submarines, the refurbishing of the Niterói-class frigates, the acquisition of nine new Super Lynx and up to six former United States Navy Sikorsky SH-3G / H Sea King helicopters, the construction of the conventional SNAC-1 submarine prototype, and the development of nuclear-propulsion technology.

His duties included lecturing, and negotiating the purchase of the navy's first Whitehead self-propelling torpedo.

Units which used the 1944 regimental colour design but adapted for the navy's guards units included air and marine units.

*, a torpedo boat of the Ottoman Navy that entered service in 1910 ; transferred to the Turkish Navy upon that navy's creation ; taken out of service in 1923 ; scrapped, 1953

After the Naval Battle of Iquique, the Peruvian ironclad Huascar made several incursions into Chilean waters, challenging the Chilean navy's domination along its entire coast ; the Huascar attacked ports and captured transports.

Compounding the navy's frustration, very few of the supplies carried on these missions actually reached Japanese army forces on the island.

The Japanese navy's strongest tactic was to board enemy ships and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

The panokseon was slower than the Japanese ships so Yi had little room for error to negate the Japanese navy's most dangerous tactic.

He then changed ships several times, taking part in the navy's annual trip to protect the British fishing fleet off Newfoundland in 1738.

The navy's ships were built primarily in Italy, Britain, France, and Spain and were operated by over 600 officers and 7760 seamen.

These officers were better able to manage and communicate between the ships they commanded than the merchant crews that often comprised large parts of a navy's force.

Although Britain's navy was superior in ships and experience, perhaps the German navy's " best opportunity for a successful battle was in the first two or three weeks of the war ".

The navy's aircraft carriers were roundly disliked by the air force, as they were an aviation asset which the air force could not control and also considered obsolete in a nuclear world, and Johnson, who was a staunch proponent of the new nuclear air force, consequently sought to limit as much as possible the navy's procurement of these ships as driven by a limited peacetime budget.

The first Harpoons, Tomahawks, and AGM-88 HARM missiles all debuted on the navy's ships.

A hallmark of a true blue-water navy is the ability to replenish at sea, and the commissioning of underway replenishment ships is a strong sign of a navy's blue-water ambitions.

The navy's vessels served almost exclusively on the Delaware River, and were active ( in conjunction with ships of the Continental Navy ) in first defending the approaches to the city of Philadelphia during the British campaign that successfully occupied the city in 1777, and then preventing ( at least for a time ) the Royal Navy from resupplying the occupying army.

Most of the ships lost in Philip II's expedition of 1588 had been armed merchantmen, while the core of the armada — the galleons of the Spanish navy's Atlantic fleet — survived their voyage home and docked in Spain's Atlantic ports for a refit, where they lay for months, vulnerable to attack.

The Royal Canadian Navy formed a Ships Badge Committee in 1942, and commissioned Beddoe to design official badges for the navy's ships.

Instead, he took the time to sail on the French navy's Mediterranean flagship, the cruiser Colbert, so that he could arrive in Quebec City, the province of Quebec's capital city.

Forgetting his and the navy's own prior emphasis on the French ports as the best base for Atlantic operations, and fearful that that the war might end before he could demonstrate to Hitler's satisfaction the great value of a battleship navy, he ordered the two available battleships into operations off the Norwegian coasts in late May and June 1940.

The resolution led to the de-commissioning of all the navy's destroyers and frigates, though the non-military measures the government intended to use to protect shipping have never been specified.

But the course of World War I changed ideas about the place of the navy, as the refusal of the German fleet to engage in a decisive battle, the Dardanelles expedition of 1915, the development of submarine warfare, and the organization of convoys all showed the navy's new role in combined operations with the army.

The total displacement of all the navy's vessels is approximately 150, 000 tons.

Although Italy could extend its control to almost all of the 2, 000 km of the Libyan coast between April and early August 1912, its ground forces could not venture beyond the protection of the navy's guns and were thus limited to a thin coastal strip.

-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.

It has a hull patterned on that of the United States navy's Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine.

But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

Although it is involved in " brown-water " ( riverine and coastal ) operations, the navy's primary goal has been to become an effective " blue-water " navy, able to project power on the high seas.

In addition, the navy's riverine brigade has been patrolling waterways more aggressively in order to establish safer river transport in the more remote areas in the south and east of the country that are controlled by rebel groups.

It is usually — but incorrectly — referred to as " navy commodore ", to avoid confusion with the " air force commodore ", which is equivalent to the navy's captain and army's colonel.

The navy's forces increased from approximately 45, 000 men to approximately 65, 000 men.

The Russian flagship, the battleship Tsesarevich, which had her nets deployed, had at least four enemy torpedoes " hung up " in them, other warships were similarly saved from further damage by the Russian navy's proper use of torpedo nets.

In addition, Göring regarded any other branch of the German military developing its own aviation as an encroachment on his authority and continually frustrated the navy's attempts to build its own airpower.

This innovative Roman tactic reduced the Carthaginian navy's advantage in ship-to-ship engagements, and allowed Rome's superior infantry to be brought to bear in naval conflicts.

Recognizing the need to reassert the navy's preeminence in the Mediterranean, Suleiman appointed an exceptional naval commander in the form of Khair ad Din, known to Europeans as Barbarossa.

All of these games were meant to be accessible to the general public, but actual play was made difficult owing to the expense of purchasing an army or navy's worth of miniatures.

** The German navy's Enigma messages are decoded almost in real time.

At present, Bermuda is able to take advantage of its status as part of the United Kingdom to attract overseas shipping operators to its register, although it does not contribute to the navy's budget.

These elements, along with the Navy's long-term Anglophobia and antidemocratic posture and its belief that Germany's and the navy's defeat in World War I had been the result of a " stab in the back " formed its revisionist outlook from 1918 to 1933.

The Armilla Patrol, which started in 1980, is the navy's primary commitment the Gulf region.

The badge of the Royal Canadian Navy, bearing at its apex a St Edward's Crown | St. Edward's Crown, indicating the sovereign as the navy's source of authority

The Royal Swedish Navy was improved with the founding of the Karlskrona naval base in 1680, that became the navy's stronghold since then.

The Standing Fleet ( also known as the Readiness Fleet ) contained the navy's most modern and combat-capable warships.