During his time as Minister of Marine he worked with the navy's chief of staff Henri Salaun in unsuccessful attempts to gain naval re-armament priority for government funding over army rearmament such as the Maginot Line.

`` 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.

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

Ricks, a former slave from Tennessee, had saved for more than fifty years, to afford the voyage from Liberia to England to personally thank the Queen for the British navy's actions against the slave trade.

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 ".

Since he is now addicted to heroin, the result of the navy's efforts to keep its dolphins loyal, Molly gives him a batch in exchange for finding the password.

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

Apart from carrying out successful bombardment of the coastal town of Dwaraka – codenamed Operation Dwarka, the navy's submarine Ghazi was deployed, Pakistan's first submarine and remaining the flagship submarine for Pakistan Navy until deployed against Indian Navy's western fleet at Bombay ( Mumbai ) port.

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.

Through the use of the newly invented " Greek fire ", the Byzantine navy's best-known and feared secret weapon, Constantinople was saved from several sieges and numerous naval engagements were won for the Byzantines.

At the same time however, the Isaurian emperors undermined Byzantium's naval strength: with the Arab threat gone for the moment, and with the largely iconodule naval themes staunchly opposed to their iconoclastic policies, the emperors reduced the navy's size and downgraded the naval themes.

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.

The navy's grave afflictions included loss of a strategic vision ; loss of self-confidence, and morale ; a prolonged starvation of resources, leaving vast shortfalls in capability to do the job ; and too few ships to cover a sea so great, all resulting in cynicism, exhaustion, and an undercurrent of defeatism.

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

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 navy's part in securing victory was not fully understood by French public opinion in 1918, but a synthesis of old and new ideas arose from the lessons of the war, especially by admiral Raoul Castex ( 1878 – 1968 ), from 1927 to 1935, who synthesized in his five-volume Théories Stratégiques the classical and materialist schools of naval theory.

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.

Fisher was appointed at the end of October 1914 and favoured a new campaign in northern Europe, which perhaps reflected the navy's traditional concern of controlling Channel waters.

The new navy's baptism of fire came on 20 July 1866 at the Battle of Lissa during the Third Italian War of Independence ( parallel to the Seven Weeks War ).

In 2011 the loch hosted Exercise Joint Warrior, the largest war games staged in the UK, involving the navy's new flagship, the assault ship HMS Bulwark.

He was given command of the Alfred, the flagship of the new navy's commodore, Esek Hopkins.

When the state established a new constitution, with a Supreme Executive Council as its executive, the navy's administration was assigned to the Council of Safety.

During this time, command and field appointments in certain key assignments in Naval Combatant Headquarters ( NHQ ) were given to native officers to replace the admirals of Royal Navy. First, Commander Khalid Jamil was appointed as navy's first native Deputy Chief of Naval Staff ( DCNS ) while Rear-Admiral James Wilfred Jefford served as first chief of naval staff until 1953. The chief of naval staff was assisted in the matters of navy by Deputy Chief of Staff Commander M. A. Alavi whilst other administrative positions were also re-designed and created by the Pakistan Government. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance awarded contracts to Corps of Engineers of Pakistan Army to led the construction of NHQ in Karachi and the Karachi Naval Dockyard in mid 1950s.

The Soviet Navy laid 16, 179 mines and 2, 441 mine sweeping obstacles, the Finnish navy 6, 382 mines, and the German navy's vessels, submarines and aircraft laid some 45, 000 mines, of which 3, 000 were magnetic mines.

The 4 ballistic missile submarines ( SSBN ) of the navy's Strategic Oceanic Force provide the backbone of the French nuclear deterrent.

At least a portion of these missiles will be installed on the navy's Hai-Lung class submarines.

The United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent is carried aboard the navy's Vanguard-class of four nuclear ballistic-missile submarines.

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.

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.

Apart from the Type 45 destroyer recently entering service the Type 23 makes up the majority of the navy's escort fleet.

Under the direction of former Commander of Navy, Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, the navy's presence in East Pakistan was tripled.

A small number of these fighters are in service, and are capable of being inflight refuelled by the navy's own H-6DU tankers, modified from former navy H-6D missile bombers.

-- 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.

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.

During World War II she chaired the Advisory Council of the navy's women's unit, the WAVES and following the war she was appointed to the United Nations Charter Committee.

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 IJN's dive bombing moment of success was during their Indian Ocean Raids in April 1942, and the Japanese carriers launched strikes against the British navy's battle squadrons stationed near Ceylon and India, and Aichi D3As sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes

*, 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

From its first years, the Washington Navy Yard became the navy's largest shipbuilding and shipfitting facility, with 22 vessels constructed there, ranging from small 70-foot ( 21 m ) gunboats to the 246-foot ( 75 m ) steam frigate USS Minnesota.

Both animals have in their heads the navy's golden crown, symbol of the heroic deeds of the Chilean Navy in the Pacific Ocean.

The U. S. Navy attacks the Chinese mainland's coastal defenses and destroys much of the Chinese navy's aging fleet while it lies in port.