The ships are firing on eight ships flying the British flag that are steadily approaching them from the right of the picture.

Shortly after the French order to set sails was abandoned, the British fleet began rapidly approaching once more and Brueys, now expecting to come under attack on that night, ordered each of his ships to also place springs on their anchor cables and prepare for action.

Within five minutes Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s foremast had fallen, to cheers from the crews of the approaching British ships.

* Upon approaching the port, ships must display a quarantine flag, which has the letter ' Q ' on it, and wait for admittance into the port.

They kept the British ships from approaching Germany, spotted when and where the British were laying sea-mines, and later aided in the destruction of those mines.

The two lines were approaching at an angle so that the leading ships of the vans of both lines were within range of each other, while the ships at the rear were too far apart to engage.

The format is that of the Arch of Titus in Rome, but made taller, so that the bronze figures surmounting it, of Trajan, his wife Plotina and sister Marciana, would figure as a landmark for ships approaching Rome's greatest Adriatic port.

Cruceta El Vigia marks the spot where during the 17th through 19th centuries a guard watched for merchant as well as enemy ships approaching the Ponce harbor 3 miles away.

The term " Woods Hole " refers to a passage for ships between Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay known for its extremely strong current, approaching four knots.

The Tower is cited on the Federal Maritime Chart as the " Red Tower ", and serves as a warning to ships traveling south along the Hudson that they are approaching New York Bay.

The Sicilians landed near Alexandria but when they realised that their expected allies would not be coming ( due to King Amalric I of Jerusalem's death ) and with Saladin's army approaching they returned to their ships and sailed home.

In addition to providing information on approaching ships, the Duke used the system to relay military commands, especially as they related to troop discipline.

Instead, they designed defensive minefields to prevent enemy ships approaching and freed up the destroyers for duties escorting larger ships.

Near the beach there is a lighthouse, named " Faro de Ciudad Madero "-although this has been replaced by a red beacon light atop a small tower, to guide approaching ships in to the channel of the Río Pánuco.

Upon sighting the approaching Korean fleet, some of the Japanese who had been busying themselves with plundering got back to their ships, and began to flee.

Thomas Painter, a teenaged militiaman watching for the approaching British ships while standing atop Savin Rock, is depicted on the city seal.

The U. S. ships retired to the south to get out of range of any approaching Japanese warships.

Several troop ships were blown off course and ended up in New York, and Vice Admiral Samuel Graves, commanding the fleet in Boston, refused to release ships to transport troops from there to Quebec because the approaching winter would close the Saint Lawrence River.

In addition to approaching Guadalcanal with the objective of engaging any Japanese ships that might come into range, the U. S. task force was protecting an Allied transport ship convoy carrying replacement troops there.

Both these events raised the hopes of the British that an easy victory might be had, but as a consequence the Turks set about laying mines through the channels to prevent ships approaching and strengthened the fortifications.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

The British ships rolled at anchor, sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London.

At times, three ships a day from the Soviet bloc are unloading in Cuban ports.

Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.

Balanced properly between optimism and practicality, the nondefeatist attitude of the shell people led them to extricate themselves, their ships and personnel, from bizarre situations.

Bruce gained his early reputation from the production of large-scale commercial anchors for ships and fixed installations such as oil rigs.

He made the ships from Meluhha, the ships from Magan ( and ) the ships from Dilmun tie up alongside the quay of Agade.

Ajax argues that because of his strength and the fighting he has done for the Greeks, including saving the ships from Hector, and driving him off with a massive rock, he deserves the armor.

Immediately on his return from Finland, Alexei was dispatched by his father to Staraya Russa and Lake Ladoga to see to the building of new ships.

Recreating the fyrd into a standing army, ringing Wessex with some thirty garrisoned fortified towns, and constructing new and larger ships for the royal fleet were costly endeavours that provoked resistance from noble and peasant alike.

Andronikos also assembled a fleet of 100 ships to stop the Norman fleet from entering the Sea of Marmara.

Athens also switched from accepting ships, men and weapons as dues from league members, to only accepting money.

The Persians followed up their victory by sending a fleet to re-establish their control over Cyprus, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under Cimon, who returned from ostracism in 451 BC.

They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

* 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

Players earn victory points for connecting their settlements with settlements ( not necessarily theirs ) from the opposite island using ships, or to another player's shipping lines which connect two settlements together.

In the summer of 1522, taking advantage of the navy he inherited from his father, Suleiman dispatched an armada of some 400 ships while personally leading an army of 100, 000 across Asia Minor to a point opposite the island.

He too was represented as a two headed being, with each head facing opposite directions, on coins and as figurehead of ships.

However, he returned to Norwich in 1824, hoping to improve his financial position, and moved into a large house in St Martin's Plain, opposite the Bishop's Palace, where he built up a collection of prints, books and armour, and had a many models of ships to help him with his compositions.

The harbour, about which on both sides a sheer cliff runs continuously, and projecting headlands opposite to one another stretch out at the mouth, and the entrance is narrow, ..., and the ships were moored within the hollow harbour, for therein no wave ever swelled, great or small, but all about was a bright calm ......

In 1728, a royal expedition under Major Claus Paarss arrived with four supply ships and relocated the Kangeq colony to the mainland opposite, establishing a fort named Godt-Haab (" Good Hope "), the future Godthåb.

The position opposite the mouth of the River Cart was to also to prove important as the shipyard grew, since it enabled the company to build much bigger, heavier ships than would otherwise have been possible that far up the Clyde.

Drawn into the narrow waters of the Corinthian gulf to protect Naupactus, the Athenians were initially routed and divided, but 11 Athenian ships which were pursued into Naupactus were able to turn about on their pursuers and defeat the numerically superior force opposite them.

Because the largest ships traveling in opposite directions cannot pass safely within the Gaillard Cut, the canal effectively operates an alternating one-way system for these ships.

The second was opposite Fort Thompson and consisted of a row of hulks and chevaux de frise, which would force ships to pass under the guns of the fort.

A private beach on the opposite side of the island is reserved for the ships crew and staff.

For some years after the destruction of the island it remained deserted, but was re-occupied in 1774 by new settlers from the opposite coast of Peloponnese after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca that allowed the Russian free movement of ships in the Mediterranean and the recreation of the powerful commercial fleet by using the Russian flag to establish trade routes with neighboring countries.

Dutch people drifted to this lagoon as their ships got stuck on the shores of the Karimanal Village, on the opposite side of the mouth of the lake, from where the coast line got the name ‘ Coramandal ’.

FiringSquad described it as a " total thrill " to be among 20 fighters flying in between opposing capital ships with beams, missiles, and flak all around, while warnings are going off as they try to seek out and destroy their opposite numbers, a view which GameSpot agreed with.

The high platform on which the temple was built served as a rostra ( Rostra ad divi Iuli ) and, like the rostra at the opposite end of the Forum, was decorated with the beaks of ships taken at the battle of Actium.

The Japanese surged into the strait on a favorable tide, and Admiral Yi was waiting for them at the opposite end, using the shadows of the hills to obscure his ships.

alt = A peninsula with eight ships beached on the shore in the foreground and over eleven ships anchored off the opposite shore.

Dance made use of the delay to gather the smaller country ships on the opposite side of his line from the French, the brig Ganges shepherding them into position and collecting volunteers from their crews to augment the sailors on board the Indiamen.

The British ships then turned about and tacked across in the opposite direction, cannonading the fleeing French with their starboard batteries.

The Echinades are mentioned by Homer, who, in the Iliad, says that Meges, son of Phyleus, led 40 ships to Troy from Dulichium and the sacred islands Echinae, which are situated beyond the sea, opposite Elis.

He then ordered his ships to go about and come alongside their opposite numbers in the French fleet.