Turner planned, however, to unload as many supplies as possible on Guadalcanal and Tulagi throughout the night of August 8 and then depart with his ships early on August 9.

After a successful landing, they remained in the south Pacific area charged with guarding the line of communication between the major Allied bases at New Caledonia and Espiritu Santo, supporting the Allied ground forces at Guadalcanal and Tulagi against any Japanese counteroffensives, covering the movement of supply ships to Guadalcanal, and engaging and destroying any Japanese warships that came within range.

At this location, the carriers were charged with guarding the line of communication between the major Allied bases at New Caledonia and Espiritu Santo, supporting the Allied ground forces at Guadalcanal and Tulagi against any Japanese counteroffensives, covering the movement of supply ships to Guadalcanal, and engaging and destroying any Japanese warships, especially carriers, that came within range.

* May 4 – launches three air strikes against Japanese shipping at Tulagi, sinking a minesweeper and damaging a destroyer and a few other ships.

On hearing the enemy was occupying Tulagi, TF 17 attacked the landing beaches, sinking several small ships before rejoining Lexington and an Australian cruiser force under Rear Admiral John Gregory Crace on May 5.

Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

The U. S. Navy keeps a small squadron of its ships at the harbor of Praia da Vitória, three kilometers southeast of Lajes Field.

Havana's inability to resist invaders was dramatically exposed in 1628, when a Dutch fleet led by Piet Heyn plundered the Spanish ships in the city's harbor.

There are no coral reefs along the coast, and the island lacks a good harbor for ships.

Incoming ships were quarantined in Boston harbor, and any smallpox patients in town were held under guard or in a " pesthouse.

A harbor or harbour ( see spelling differences ), or haven, is a place where ships, boats, and barges can seek shelter through stormy weather, or else are stored for future use.

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique ( then belonging to Peru ) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

All of Odysseus ’ s ships except his own entered the harbor of the Laestrygonians ’ Island and were immediately destroyed.

Previously, the bay waters and harbor facilities only allowed for ships with a draft of, but dredging activities undertaken by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with the Port of Oakland succeeded in providing access for vessels with a draft.

This statue is believed to have been over high, and it similarly stood at a harbor entrance and carried a light to guide ships.

A wharf or quay (, US also or ) is a structure on the shore of a harbor where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

The Portuguese admiral later manages to enter in the harbor of Ceuta and destroy a number of Muslim ships.

By 31 August, Graves had moved his five ships of the line out of New York harbor to meet with Hood's force.

* While trying to enter by surprise in the harbor of Ceuta to sink Muslim ships, the Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho is spotted and killed.

This 1755 copper engraving shows the ruins of Lisbon in flames and a tsunami overwhelming the ships in the harbor.

The town is traditionally associated with Saint Paul, who changed ships in its harbor.

They were later adapted to pilot boats ( small ships that took a pilot out to a ship, to guide it into a harbor ).

During the War of 1812, the British attacked Essex, Connecticut, and burned the ships in the harbor, due to the construction there of a number of privateers.

The Spanish were desirous of reinforcing their presence in Alta California as a buffer against Russian colonization of the Americas advancing from the north, and possibly establish a harbor that would give shelter to Spanish ships.

It also provided amphibious assault ships to land supplies, as a sunken ROC naval vessel was blocking the harbor.

During WWII, a German U-boat sailed into Castries harbor and sank two allied ships.

Upgrading the Port Zante harbor complex in Basseterre enables large container ships to call, further enhancing St. Kitts ' attractiveness as an offshore manufacturing base.

It is famous as a deep-water harbor that was once a haven for pirates and is now a frequent port of call for cruise ships, with about 1. 5 million cruise ship passengers landing there in 2004.

Bering reached Avacha Bay in late 1740 and laid the foundation stone for the harbor town, naming the new settlement " Petropavlovsk " ( Peter and Paul ) after his two ships, the St. Peter and the St. Paul, built in Okhotsk for his second expedition.

In 1742 there were 57 buildings, 45 other buildings in the Bering's " expedition settlement " and eight ships in the harbor.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

The larger ships were near Paulus Hook, already being called, by a few, Jersey City.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

Merchant ships illuminated in the light of the flares, made to seem like stones imbedded in a lake of polished mud, were impossible to miss.

But men willing to sail at all into waters where wooden ships could be crushed like eggs were hard to find.

The concessionaires also had to pay a tax of one-tenth on the goods they traded, and all pelts were to be taken to company stores and shipped to France in company ships.

Brain ships were, of course, long past the experimental stages.

Nearly 3, 700 Allied ships were sunk at a cost of 783 German U-boats.

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

Nearly all of them were passengers on 16 commercial ( nongovernmental ) ships and several yachts that made 116 trips during the summer.

In 1099, a Byzantine fleet of 10 ships were sent to assist the Crusaders in capturing Laodicea and other coastal towns as far as Tripoli.

Two of the ships were destroyed and the others surrendered to Alfred ’ s forces.

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.

The chronicler flattered his royal patron by boasting that Alfred's ships were not only larger, but swifter, steadier and rode higher in the water than either Danish or Frisian ships.

When that occurred, the Danes rushed back to their boats, which being lighter, with shallower drafts, were freed before Alfred's ships.

In result, the fortification walls of Thasos were torn down, their land and naval ships were confiscated by Athens.

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.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.