The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

The Allied fleet then sailed to the Thracian Chersonese, still held by the Persians, and besieged and captured the town of Sestos.

On 9 June the fleet arrived off Malta, then under the ownership of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, ruled by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim.

Nelson then gave orders for his leading ships to slow down in order to allow the British fleet to approach in a more organised formation.

The U-boats were to surrender to Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt at Harwich, under the supervision of the Harwich Force, then the surface fleet was to sail to the Firth of Forth and surrender personally to Beatty.

However, a Franco-Spanish fleet was defeated at Trafalgar ( 21 October 1805 ) and all plans to invade Britain were then made impossible.

" Tirpitz argued that if the fleet could achieve two-thirds the number of capital ships possessed by Britain then it stood a chance of winning in a conflict.

The Spanish ships were met offshore by the native Chamorros, who delivered refreshments and then helped themselves to a small boat belonging to Magellan's fleet.

These ships were then released, and served as the core of the Athenians ' fleet throughout the rest of the war.

The French fleet, reportedly numbering some 1, 700 ships proceeded first to Gravelines and then to the port of Dam.

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia describes a fleet of sixteen ships and five hundred Osilians ravaging the area that is now southern Sweden, then belonging to Denmark.

He was then able to travel to a meeting of the Allies, at which he proposed his strategy ; with the Athenian fleet fully committed to the defence of Greece, the other Allies accepted his proposals.

Since either of these options would require the assistance of the French fleet then in the West Indies, a ship was dispatched to meet with French Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse who was expected at Cap-Français ( now known as Cap-Haïtien, Haiti ), outlining the possibilities and requesting his assistance.

" Graves then turned his battered fleet toward New York, arriving off Sandy Hook on 20 September.

He repels a Muslim fleet near the Tagus river, he then attacks Sintra ; Lisbon and Alcácer do Sal and finally defeats a second Muslim fleet further south.

* A Portuguese fleet attacks Kilwa and then Mombasa.

He then installed a Spiritual Franciscan, Pietro Rainalducci as Antipope Nicholas V, but both fled Rome in August 1328, after Robert, King of Naples had sent both a fleet and an army against them.

They would then return, assist the fleet in Brest to emerge from the blockade, and together clear the English Channel of Royal Navy ships, ensuring a safe passage for the invasion barges.

He then set about rebuilding the fortifications of the city, and his fleet sought shelter in the lake of Tunis, five miles ( 8 km ) south of Carthage.

Signs of military decline began with two disastrous battles: the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in Morocco in 1578 and Spain's abortive attempt to conquer England in 1588-Portugal was then in a dynastic union with Spain, and contributed ships to the Spanish invasion fleet.

The fleet initially inched north along the Indian coast, and then anchored in at Anjediva island for a spell.

The Portuguese fleet then bombarded the city for nearly two days from the sea shore.

If Thermopylae / Artemisium occurred in September, then this may be the case, but it is probably more likely that the Persians spent two or three weeks capturing Athens, refitting the fleet, and resupplying.

Herodotus reports that there were 378 triremes in the Allied fleet, and then breaks the numbers down by city state ( as indicated in the table ).

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

The following spring, as Maximian prepared a fleet for an expedition against Carausius, Diocletian returned from the East to meet Maximian.

A plan had been prepared in Constantinople for uniting the Volga and Don by a canal, and in the summer of 1569 a large force of Janissaries and cavalry were sent to lay siege to Astrakhan and begin the canal works, while an Ottoman fleet besieged Azov.

Already gunned into a wreck, Admiral Togo, the IJN commander, had ordered his torpedo boats to finish off the enemy flagship as he prepared to pursue the remnants of the Russian battle fleet.

* January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against king Louis XIII with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.

The Ostrogoths help him with supplies and the fleet is prepared for the final attack.

De Grasse hastily prepared most of his fleet, 24 ships of the line, for battle and sailed out to meet Graves.

In 1149, Manuel recovered Corfu and prepared to take the offensive against the Normans, while Roger II sent George of Antioch with a fleet of 40 ships to pillage Constantinople's suburbs.

The Allies prepared to defend the Isthmus of Corinth whilst the fleet was withdrawn to nearby Salamis Island.

The military expedition prepared at Dunkirk to cross under cover of De Roquefeuil's fleet naturally did not start.

In 1281, he himself prepared to lead a fleet of 140 ships with men to invade Tunisia on behalf of the governor of Constantine.

He now prepared a large army and a formidable fleet, the command of which he gave to Demetrius, and hastened to attack Ptolemy in his own dominions.

SLC-6 was still being prepared for its first Shuttle launch, mission STS-62-A targeted for October 15, 1986, when the Challenger disaster grounded the Shuttle fleet and set in motion a chain of events that finally led to the decision to cancel all West Coast shuttle launches.

While the vessels were being prepared for the voyage to Toulon all the hostages in the castles were liberated save four ; but on 24 June 1799 Nelson arrived with his fleet, and on hearing of the capitulation he refused to recognise it except insofar as it concerned the French.

The German fleet had expected that Britain would adopt its traditional approach, and had prepared by investing in submarines and coastal defences.

With the Spanish King threatening to make a separate peace with France unless the Allies came to his assistance William III prepared the Anglo-Dutch fleet for action.

The British Admiralty had been considering armored warships since 1856 and prepared a draft design for an armored corvette in 1857 ; however, in early 1859 the Royal Navy started building two iron-hulled armored frigates, and by 1861 had made the decision to move to an all-armored battle fleet.

At first, Melisende was chosen, and Raymond collected an enormous dowry, while negotiations continued for over a year ( during this time he prepared a fleet of 12 galleys to escort Melisende ).

When appointed First Sea Lord in 1904 he removed 150 ships then on active service but which were no longer useful and set about constructing modern replacements, creating a modern fleet prepared to meet Germany during World War I.

Spain ’ s response crucially depended on French support in the event of war, and France began to prepare a fleet, but the French king ’ s dismissal of Choiseul in December 1770 removed that prospect, and the recall of the British envoy Harris from Madrid showed that Britain was still prepared to go to war.

When the Spartan fleet arrived, the Spartans prepared to blockade the entrance to the harbor by placing hoplites on the island of Sphacteria, which was in the middle of the entrance, and planned to place ships in the gaps on either side of that island when the Athenian fleet arrived.

Corinth, meanwhile, assembled a fleet of ships under the command of Xenoclides and prepared to sail to Corcyra.

Royal Navy battleships of the Home Fleet were prepared for war, while British cruiser squadrons shadowed the Russian fleet as it made its way through the Bay of Biscay.