A good example of an old naval battle is the Battle of Salamis.

It derives its name from the old toll bridge ( adjacent to a naval saw mill ) across the creek between Eldad Hill and Molesworth Road, at one time the principal link between Plymouth and Devonport.

in Persian " nav " ( ship ) probably from shenav or ashenav ( swim ) from avesta ( old Iranian language ) " sna " in Sanskrit " sna " ( The word " naval " came from Latin navalis, " pertaining to ship "; cf.

* February 24 – The, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch 213, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor, a 19 year old man, making it the largest exclusively civilian naval disaster of the war.

The event severely damaged Sparta's naval power but did not end its aspirations of invading further into Persia, until Conon the Athenian ravaged the Spartan coastline and provoked the old Spartan fear of a helot revolt.

The new citadel was until recently a restricted area due to the presence of a naval garrison, but old restrictions have been lifted and it is now open to the public, with tours possible through the maze of medieval corridors and fortifications.

Raeder used his old college Magnus von Levetzow, who worked as Adolf Hitler's naval adviser in the late 1920s and early 1930s to leak Reichsmarine material to the Nazis out of hope that this might win the Nazis over to navalism.

This was naval history's only decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets, the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy played a critically important role, and has been characterized as the " dying echo of the old era – for the last time in the history of naval warfare ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas.

He spoke English fluently ( as well as four other foreign languages ) and as a naval officer of the old school, he respected Great Britain's Royal Navy despite the rivalry between the two nations.

The ceremonies involved are often rooted in centuries old naval tradition.

In the graveyard there is a memorial to the Finnish prisoners kept in the old naval prison in the 19th century.

Because of Kingston's military tradition and the fact that several military buildings already existed at the old naval dockyard, Point Frederick was chosen as the location for Canada's first military college, the Royal Military College of Canada ( RMC ).

Historically, the main British naval bases were located near the English Channel to better face England's old enemies, France, Spain, and the Netherlands.

In addition, the great naval division of the Carabisians or Karabisianoi ( Kαραβισιάνοι, from κάραβις, " ship "), first mentioned in 680, was probably formed of the remains of the Army of the Illyricum or, more likely, the old quaestura exercitus.

After years of development, community input and revisions, the Noisette Community Master Plan for the old naval base was finalized in a contractual agreement in early 2004.

The old churchyard contains war graves of 5 soldiers of World War I and the churchyard extension those of 4 soldiers and a naval officer of World War II.

He was the son of naval officer Louis Barthes, who was killed in a battle in the North Sea before his son was one year old.

The concept of a naval task force is as old as navies, but the term came into extensive use originally by the U. S. Navy around the beginning of 1941, as a way to increase operational flexibility.

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.

He wore the Surgeon General's ceremonial military uniform ( a naval admiral's dress uniform, complete with medals ) during much of his day-to-day work, reviving an old practice.

They are ' inline ' hammocks ; like the canvas naval hammocks of old, the occupant sleeps along the length of the hammock, rather than across it.

Changes to these regulations were made during 1863, when a new naval jack, battle ensign, and commissioning pennant design was introduced aboard all Confederate ships, echoing the Confederacys change of its national flag from the old Stars and Bars to the new Stainless Banner ( as pictured above right ).

The U. S. Supreme Court held that Kentucky's jurisdiction ( and, implicitly, that of West Virginia ) extended only to the low-water mark of 1793 ( important because the river has been extensively dammed for navigation, so that the present river bank is north of the old low-water mark.

The old navigations were abandoned and the head race constructed from Lough Derg which also served for navigation.

Although the old town bridge there restricts navigation to craft with an airdraft of less than, its quay beyond that abruptly changes the nature of the river from a gentle rural feature to a gateway to the North Sea.

In 1742, Worcester County was carved out of the eastern half of old Somerset County and Snow Hill, centrally located in the new county and at the head of navigation on the Pocomoke River, was made the county seat.

The complete structure was then pushed into position by hydraulic jacks in a six-day operation, after which the navigation was diverted over it, although the old aqueduct was left in place and can still be used.

The last of the old Birkenhead steamers had gone by the time the Overchurch arrived, built at the Birkenhead shipyard of Cammell Laird and Co., Overchurch was of all welded construction and also had a bridge that was completely enclosed rather than a wheelhouse and navigation boxes like Mountwood and Woodchurch.

Exhibits include the history of sea fishing, sea animals, the town and its region, and old navigation equipment.

The estuary is a highly dynamic environment, ranging from the high outflows of freshwater during the spring freshet, to the low outflow and rising saltwater content during the summer period, to fall ocean storms and nor ' easters which reshape the barrier islands and the old river channel which forms the navigation channel for ocean-going ships heading to ports at Chatham and Newcastle, to the winter covering of sea ice which encases the entire estuary.

Therefore, old or uncorrected charts should never be used for navigation.

A marine chart dated 1590 gives Brightlingsea Church as a navigation mark ; Canon Arthur Pertwee, who was the vicar from 1872 to 1917, even in his old age climbed the tower to give a guiding light to the fishing fleet entering the harbour.

The island is supplied with navigation equipment, including a 150-year old lighthouse.

The right column heading for Chunuk Bair had a simpler navigation task as their route was to some degree visible from the old Anzac perimeter.

... The connection of the two seas with a canal is not only a necessity for free trade by shortening the route between Europe and the old rich countries of the Indian Ocean but also for increase of coastal navigation and economic prosperity of this blessed country ( Egypt )... ( eLibrary Austria Project ( translated from the German text ))

Though the concept of " off-course navigation " ( steering to one side so you know which way the error is ) is probably as old as navigation, Chichester was the first to utilise it in a methodical manner in an aircraft.

This part of the Lune is also the site of the old Port of Lancaster, probably a port from Roman times ; the Lancaster Port Commission was established in 1750 to improve navigation on the estuary.

When he was 15 years old Sven Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Swedish Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route.

Benbow was highly regarded as a specialist in both navigation and pilotage, and his evidence given in July 1690 to the preliminary investigation strongly favoured his old patron, Torrington.

Along its lower course, it is lined by sandy banks and old plantation homes, providing an important navigation channel with a unique geography, flowing roughly parallel to the coast.

were able to settle along the coasts of Batangas into the inner lake region of Taal which was accessible to navigation through the Pansipit River, thus, the possibility of miscegenetic marriages and cross culture among the aboriginal inhabitants, the old settlers and the latter Dumangsil and Balkasusa Clans.

More than 35, 000 tons of concrete and 7, 000 tons of steel went into the bridge, which replaced the narrow 54-year old swing bridge, declared a menace to navigation on the busy Keweenaw Waterway.

" Menzies proposes an explanation for why the old maps locate Antillia in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean Sea, arguing that the combination of the Portuguese dead-reckoning navigation technique and the Atlantic ocean currents caused navigators to mis-calculate Antillia's location on their maps.

Whales have beached throughout human history, so many strandings can be attributed to natural and environmental factors, such as rough weather, weakness due to old age or infection, difficulty giving birth, hunting too close to shore and navigation errors.