Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts. |
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After this major setback, he set sail again on 13 December aboard Pelican with four other ships and 164 men. |
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The three remaining ships of his convoy departed for the Magellan Strait at the southern tip of South America. |
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In 1562 Elizabeth sent privateers Hawkins and Drake to seize booty from Spanish and Portuguese ships off the coast of West Africa. |
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He led another voyage to the Americas the following year, but nothing was heard of him or his ships again. |
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One was military attacks on African towns and villages, the other was attacking Portuguese slave ships. |
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The book includes a wealth of detail on living conditions aboard ships at that time. |
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An expedition left Plymouth in September 1585 with Drake in command of twenty one ships with 1,800 soldiers under Christopher Carleill. |
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The Ouse was originally a tidal river, accessible to seagoing ships of the time. |
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The ships fired grape shot but to no effect. They about ship and went to sea. |
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It is the great quantities of Bulksome Commodities that multiplies ships and men. |
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Cepelinai are giant dumplings named for Zeppelin air ships. They are a Lithuanian specialty, served as a main dish. |
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The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships. |
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Magnus walked to one of the ships and put his hand on the forestem at the front. |
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It's the nature of founderings that ships have buoyancy and are afloat one second, then lose buoyancy and sink the next. |
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The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. |
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Medieval fleets, in England as elsewhere, were almost entirely composed of merchant ships enlisted into naval service in time of war. |
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For much of the war this submarine campaign was restricted by prize rules requiring merchant ships to be warned and evacuated before sinking. |
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The Washington and London Naval Treaties imposed the scrapping of some capital ships and limitations on new construction. |
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By the end of the war the Royal Navy comprised over 4,800 ships, and was the second largest fleet in the world. |
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In October 2014, the Ministry of Defence announced the names of the first three ships as HMS Forth, HMS Medway and HMS Trent. |
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The fourth and fifth ships were ordered in December 2016, these will be named HMS Spey and HMS Tamar respectively. |
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The Fleet Commander has responsibility for the provision of ships, submarines and aircraft ready for any operations that the Government requires. |
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Dockyards of the Royal Navy are harbours where ships are overhauled and refitted. |
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The Royal Navy has several formal customs and traditions including the use of ensigns and ships badges. |
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Royal Navy ships have several ensigns used when under way and when in port. |
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The British fleet formed by 195 ships, 32,000 soldiers and 3,000 artillery pieces was defeated by the Admiral Blas de Lezo. |
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After England's 1588 victory over the Spanish Armada, the ships were given permission to sail. |
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As the opium trade was illegal in China, Company ships could not carry opium to China. |
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In 1607, the Company decided to build its own ships and leased a yard on the River Thames at Deptford. |
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It was sold in 1656, although for some years East India Company ships continued to be built and repaired there under the new owners. |
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A squadron of French ships, carrying eight hundred naval infantry, attempted retaliation but made little headway. |
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The fleet was composed of 130 ships, 8,000 sailors and 18,000 soldiers, and bore 1,500 brass guns and 1,000 iron guns. |
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The English ships then used their superior speed and manoeuvrability to catch up with the Spanish fleet after a day of sailing. |
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The English then closed, firing repeated and damaging broadsides into the enemy ships. |
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The ships were close enough for sailors on the upper decks of the English and Spanish ships to exchange musket fire. |
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After eight hours, the English ships began to run out of ammunition, and some gunners began loading objects such as chains into cannons. |
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The ships were beginning to show wear from the long voyage, and some were kept together by having their hulls bundled up with cables. |
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Many of the men were near death from disease, as the conditions were very cramped and most of the ships ran out of food and water. |
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Many more later died in Spain, or on hospital ships in Spanish harbours, from diseases contracted during the voyage. |
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Goods and tackle of such ships not to be embezeled, till judgement in the Admiralty. |
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In 1776, one of the first ships commissioned to serve in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War was named Oliver Cromwell. |
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Almost all of the ships were sunk except for the flagship, Royal Charles, which was taken back to the Netherlands as a trophy. |
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On the second leg, ships made the journey of the Middle Passage from Africa to the New World. |
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Cabot led another voyage to the Americas the following year but nothing was ever heard of his ships again. |
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It needed canals only to take goods in and out from seagoing ships, where such rivers were unavailable. |
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The movement of coal to ships rapidly became a lucrative business, and the line was soon extended to a new port and town at Middlesbrough. |
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Royal Navy ships even provided artillery support against French units when fighting strayed near enough to the coastline. |
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Since his death, many towns, streets, ships, and even cartoon characters have been named after him. |
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Hinchinbrook sailed from Port Royal on 5 October 1779 and, in company with other British ships, proceeded to capture a number of American prizes. |
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He was unsuccessful as there were too few ships in the peacetime navy and Hood did not intercede on his behalf. |
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Nelson began to land guns from his ships and emplace them in the hills surrounding the town. |
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Heavily damaged, the two French ships were forced to surrender and Nelson took possession of the Censeur. |
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Nelson, having been reinforced with a number of ships from St Vincent, went in pursuit. |
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The British fleet was soon heavily engaged, passing down the French line and engaging their ships one by one. |
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Napoleon then left his army and sailed back to France, evading detection by British ships. |
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The combined French and Spanish fleet under Villeneuve's command numbered 33 ships of the line. |
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Lambert also suggests that Nelson in fact acted to put an end to the bloodshed, using his ships and men to restore order in the city. |
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Guadalcanal soon became a focal point for both sides with heavy commitments of troops and ships in the battle for Guadalcanal. |
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Dutch troops, aircraft and escaped ships continued to fight on the Allied side and also mounted a guerrilla campaign in Timor. |
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Nortraship was the world's largest shipping company, and at its height operated more than 1000 ships. |
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These are used in electrical power generation, for powering water, natural gas, or oil pumps, and providing propulsion for ships and locomotives. |
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Mogens and Morten followed him on the two knarrs, but behind them to the north two other ships could be sighted. |
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The Cross of St George was used by Edward III as banners on his ships and carried by his armies. |
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When Richard returned from captivity in Austria in May 1194, he summoned a fleet of 100 ships and an army to the port. |
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In 1416, a number of French ships blockaded Portsmouth, which housed ships that were set to invade Normandy. |
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Throughout the war, around 1200 ships were refitted in the dockyard, making it one of the most strategic ports in the empire at the time. |
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Great Western ships linked Great Britain with Ireland, the Channel Islands and France. |
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The following year the company took over the ships operated by Ford and Jackson on the route between Neyland in Wales and Waterford in Ireland. |
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This meant that large ships were more fuel efficient, something very important for long voyages across the Atlantic. |
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She was one of the first ships to be built with a double hull with watertight compartments and was the first liner to have four funnels. |
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The steamships were able to obtain a much higher rate of freight than sailing ships and the insurance premium for the cargo was less. |
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The Liberty ships were the last major steamship class equipped with reciprocating engine. |
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Most capital ships of the major navies were propelled by steam turbines burning bunker fuel in both World Wars. |
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Steam turbines were extensively applied for propulsion of large ships throughout most of the 20th century. |
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This phenomenon made possible the construction of accurate mechanical clocks and watches that could be carried on ships and people's pockets. |
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It also makes it harder for rogue ships and barges knocking out both bridges in the same accident. |
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In 1978, a deep water riverside berth was opened for large container ships on reclaimed land at Northfleet Hope. |
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The 'Ten Pound Poms' as they were known in Australia, embarked on to ships such as RMS Mooltan and set off for a new life. |
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One factor was the longer range of newer merchant ships that required less frequent refuelling stops. |
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Lack of organised naval opposition throughout Western Europe allowed Viking ships to travel freely, raiding or trading as opportunity permitted. |
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There have been several archaeological finds of Viking ships of all sizes, providing knowledge of the craftsmanship that went into building them. |
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One Viking innovation was the 'beitass', a spar mounted to the sail that allowed their ships to sail effectively against the wind. |
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It was common for seafaring Viking ships to tow or carry a smaller boat to transfer crews and cargo from the ship to shore. |
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Ship burials were also practised by Vikings abroad, as evidenced by the excavations of the Salme ships on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. |
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The remains of these ships are on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. |
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Sails for Viking ships required large amounts of wool, as evidenced by experimental archaeology. |
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One woman, named Roma, suggested that the women burn the ships out at sea to prevent their leaving. |
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Prior to the middle of the 3rd century BC, officials known as duumviri navales commanded a fleet of twenty ships used mainly to control piracy. |
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They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. |
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Magellan's voyage records how much more manoeuvrable their vessels were, as compared to the European ships. |
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Records from Magellan's voyage show that Brunei possessed more cannon than the European ships, so the Chinese must have been trading with them. |
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But the five ships on the other side of the mined zone were making mincemeat out of them anyway. |
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They were raised both as solitary stones and in formations, such as the stone ships and few stone circles. |
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These pirates often plagued early English and Dutch trading ships of the British East India Company and Dutch East India Company. |
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He then called a meeting of his fellow sailors and moved eight ships into the harbour, causing panic within the town. |
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New Providence's harbour could easily accommodate hundreds of ships, and was too shallow for the Royal Navy's larger vessels to navigate. |
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Although no confirmation exists that these two ships were controlled by Teach and Bonnet, author Angus Konstam believes it very likely they were. |
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Teach moved his fleet, and the captured ships, to within about five or six leagues from land. |
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He was a fellow of parts, quick, humorous, a clever painter, and with an eye for certain poetical effects of sea and ships. |
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He took two French ships leaving the Caribbean, moved one crew across to the other, and sailed the remaining ship back to Ocracoke. |
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What is certain though is that Adventure turned her guns on the two ships and fired. |
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In the maritime history of Europe, the carrack and caravel both incorporated the lateen sail that made ships far more maneuverable. |
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In the first place, singing while working was generally limited to merchant ships, not war ships. |
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They are the reminiscences of melodies sung by negroes stowing cotton in the holds of ships in Southern ports. |
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The United States had come to the fore as a maritime leader, especially due to the nation's design of packet ships. |
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These ships carried cargo and passengers on fixed schedules, largely operating across the Atlantic. |
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The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves. |
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The clippers belonging to the Glasgow Tobacco Lords were the fastest ships on the route to Virginia. |
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On the night of 25 October 1859, over 110 ships were destroyed off the coast of Wales when a hurricane blew in from the Atlantic. |
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As a busy shipping lane, the Channel experiences environmental problems following accidents involving ships with toxic cargo and oil spills. |
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The legend continues that, as the seer foretold, Olaf was attacked by a group of mutineers upon returning to his ships. |
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Four of the ships sank or capsized, with at least 1,450 dead, including the commanding admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. |
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Towards the end of the century the size of the helm port on large ships was much reduced by bringing the head of the rudder inside the ship. |
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A large fleet of new junk ships was prepared for these international diplomatic expeditions. |
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Evolved from fishing ships designs, they were the first that could leave the coastal cabotage navigation and sail safely on the open Atlantic. |
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In 1500, a second, larger fleet of thirteen ships and about 1500 men was sent to India. |
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Of the men who set out on five ships, only 18 completed the circumnavigation and managed to return to Spain in this single vessel led by Elcano. |
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The new governor outright rejected a third expedition and ordered two ships to bring everyone back to Panama. |
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With three ships and one hundred and eighty men they landed near Ecuador and sailed to Tumbes, finding the place destroyed. |
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His ships with the frozen crews, including Captain Willoughby and his journal, were found by Russian fishermen a year later. |
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The ships once again reached Bear Island on 1 July, which led to a disagreement. |
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Francesco Guicciardini, a Venetian envoy, stated that hundreds of ships would pass Antwerp in a day, and 2,000 carts entered the city each week. |
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The sea was choppy but not hindersome. And there was no sign of enemy ships out on the water. |
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The early ships were built of wood but in the 19th century there was a move towards building ships of iron then steel. |
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By 1790 Sunderland was building around nineteen ships per year making it the most important shipbuilding centre in the United Kingdom. |
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In 1678 Stockton was building ships and Yarm also had a shipbuilding activity at that time. |
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It was between 1790 and 1805 that Thomas Haw of Stockton was a building ships for the Napoleonic wars. |
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This group included 13 ships, five aircraft, and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy. |
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Records indicate that Alexander had several large oared ships built at Ayr, but he avoided a sea battle. |
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He acquired a total of 38 ships including the Great Michael, at that time, the largest ship in Europe. |
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Planning for a massive Spring Offensive in 1918, it resumed the sinking of all merchant ships without warning. |
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In World War II, thousands of allied troops on the little ships in the Dunkirk evacuation saw the welcoming sight of the cliffs. |
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During the civil war that followed, as many as a thousand ships were either constructed or pressed into service from Greek cities. |
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However, Caesar may have exaggerated the number of ships wrecked to magnify his own achievement in rescuing the situation. |
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His men worked day and night for approximately ten days, beaching and repairing the ships, and building a fortified camp around them. |
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Although the tide was out and the ships still beached, Commius ordered the sails raised. |
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Caesar, still some distance away, assumed the ships were afloat and called off the pursuit. |
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When some of Tiberius's ships were carried to Britain in a storm during his campaigns in Germany in 16 AD, they came back with tales of monsters. |
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A number of ships were resting in their cradles in the shipyard. |
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Alaric then moved south, intending to sail to Africa, but his ships were wrecked in a storm and he shortly died of fever. |
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And they currently have forty-two ships searching for an immotile civilization beyond the region of space we Firewalled. |
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In 851 a huge Danish army, said to have been carried on 350 ships, arrived in the Thames estuary. |
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Alfred blockaded the Viking ships in Devon, and with a relief fleet having been scattered by a storm, the Danes were forced to submit. |
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Two of the ships were destroyed and the others surrendered to Alfred's forces. |
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Finding their position in mainland Europe precarious, they crossed to England in 330 ships in two divisions. |
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The Danes had beached half their ships and gone inland, either to rest their rowers or to forage for food. |
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The three Viking ships afloat attempted to break through the English lines. |
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The one ship that escaped managed to do so only because all of Alfred's heavy ships became grounded when the tide went out. |
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When that occurred, the Danes rushed back to their boats, which being lighter, with shallower drafts, were freed before Alfred's ships. |
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Gold shone on the prows, silver also flashed on the variously shaped ships. |
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At this point Eadric Streona, the Ealdorman of Mercia, deserted Aethelred together with 40 ships and their crews and joined forces with Cnut. |
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Representations of the Sun, animals, trees, weapons, ships, and people are all strongly stylised. |
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The depicted ships, most likely represent sewn plank built canoes used for warfare, fishing and trade. |
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William and Harald at once set about assembling troops and ships to invade England. |
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King Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in early September, leading a fleet of more than 300 ships carrying perhaps 15,000 men. |
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A contemporary document claims that William had 726 ships, but this may be an inflated figure. |
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Although the army and fleet were ready by early August, adverse winds kept the ships in Normandy until late September. |
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William invaded Scotland in 1072, riding as far as Abernethy where he met up with his fleet of ships. |
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From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. |
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He led his ships in attacks on neutral Hanseatic League and Spanish ships in the Channel on flimsy grounds of sovereignty. |
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Warwick travelled to Ireland to concert plans with York, evading the royal ships commanded by the Duke of Exeter. |
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It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. |
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Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships. |
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These ships will replace the four existing River Class ships. |
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The English monarch paid a tribute to the Doge of Genoa from 1190 onwards, so that English ships could fly the flag as a means of protection when entering the Mediterranean. |
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The United States declared war on Britain because of British interference with American merchant ships and forced enlistment into the British Royal Navy. |
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It especially provided manpower, ships, machinery, fish and money. |
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While most of it is sold young within the country, the Anchor dairy company ships New Zealand Cheddars to the UK, where the blocks mature for another year or so. |
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Later, GWR road motors operated tours to popular destinations not served directly by train, and its ships offered cruises from places such as Plymouth. |
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Becoming reliable, and propelled by screw rather than paddlewheels, the technology changed the design of ships for faster, more economic propulsion. |
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Several of the most detailed are of Rye, a port for ships to the Continent, suggesting that van Dyck did them casually whilst waiting for wind or tide to improve. |
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The author Robert Lee surmised that Teach and Hands intentionally ran the ships aground to reduce the fleet's crew complement, increasing their share of the spoils. |
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Known for their unique ships, there is evidence of the Viking presence all over mainland Europe, as no lands with navigable waters or coastlines escaped their pillaging. |
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Saint Augustine quickly became a strategic defensive base for the Spanish ships full of gold and silver being sent to Spain from its New World dominions. |
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Parker claimed that Nelson had been supported by several more ships than he acknowledged, and that San Josef had already struck her colours by the time Nelson boarded her. |
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Under new king Manuel I of Portugal, on July 1497 a small exploratory fleet of four ships and about 170 men left Lisbon under the command of Vasco da Gama. |
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His competitors rapidly copied his ideas for their own new ships. |
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While waiting for the other ships, Grenville established relations with the resident Spanish while simultaneously engaging in some privateering against them. |
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In August 1526, they left with two ships, 160 men and several horses. |
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When they could find no one, the master pilot Simon Fernandez refused to let the colonists return to the ships, insisting that they establish the new colony on Roanoke. |
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The ships were scuttled there in the 11th century to block a navigation channel and thus protect Roskilde, then the Danish capital, from seaborne assault. |
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Large navigable aqueducts are used as transport links for boats or ships. |
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The following year, Prince Maurice of Orange named him chief pilot of a new expedition of six ships, loaded with merchant wares that the Dutch hoped to trade with China. |
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The last Victory ships had already been equipped with marine diesels, and diesel engine superseded both steamers and windjammers soon after the World War Two. |
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In the 1590s, Dutch ships began to trade with Brazil and the Dutch Gold Coast of Africa, and towards the Indian Ocean and the source of the lucrative spice trade. |
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Portuguese ships laden with pepper and cinnamon would unload their cargo. |
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Despite having 27 ships to Villeneuve's 33, Nelson was confident of success, declaring that he would not be satisfied with taking fewer than 20 prizes. |
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Superior English ships and seamanship foiled the invasion and led to the destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588, marking the high point of Elizabeth's reign. |
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Vincent, intercepting and destroying ships on the Spanish supply lines. |
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Whilst negotiating to resupply and repair at the Spanish port, the fleet were attacked by Spanish warships, with all but two of the English ships lost. |
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Elizabeth retaliated against Philip by supporting the Dutch revolt against Spain, as well as funding privateers to raid Spanish ships across the Atlantic. |
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A raid on Cadiz, led by Francis Drake in April 1587, had captured or destroyed some thirty ships and great quantities of supplies, setting preparations back by a year. |
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Able UK operate the biggest dry dock in the UK near Seaton Carew, Hartlepool where ships can be dismantled and oil rigs can be dismantled or refurbished. |
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Swan Hunter until 2006 made ships in Wallsend, and still designs ships. |
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We may the number of ships behold, and so proceed accordingly. |
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The galleons and great ships were concentrated in the centre and at the tips of the crescent's horns, giving cover to the transports and supply ships in between. |
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Her long reign saw Britain reach the zenith of its economic and political power, with the introduction of steam ships, railroads, photography, and the telegraph. |
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Opposing them the English were in two sections, Drake to the north in Revenge with 11 ships, and Howard to the south in Ark Royal with the bulk of the fleet. |
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As a result of him snuffing out the lantern and slipping away for the Spanish ships, the rest of his fleet became scattered and was in complete disarray by dawn. |
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For the Phaeacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that country did the rest of mankind in the management of ships. |
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Packet ships were larger and yet sailed with fewer crew than vessels of earlier eras, in addition to the fact that they were expected on strict schedules. |
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Some ships were wrecked, and many others were rendered unseaworthy by the loss of rigging or other vital equipment, threatening the return journey. |
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At one point Howard formed his ships into a line of battle, to attack at close range bringing all his guns to bear, but this was not followed through and little was achieved. |
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These barges would be protected by the large ships of the Armada. |
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They named the settlement after the woman who torched their ships. |
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Carthage was a maritime power, and the Roman lack of ships and naval experience would make the path to the victory a long and difficult one for the Roman Republic. |
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Roads and railways were blocked and ships could not leave harbour. |
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Their parents soon become the most ingenious babyproofers alive, and live, for these hectic two years, in houses that are battened down like ships. |
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Off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland the fleet ran into a series of powerful westerly winds, which drove many of the damaged ships further towards the lee shore. |
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Again, in 1052 when Edward's fleet was waiting at Sandwich to intercept Godwine's return, the ships returned to London to take on new earls and crews. |
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As a ruse towards the Knights, Napoleon asked for safe harbour to resupply his ships, and then turned his guns against his hosts once safely inside Valletta. |
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In the British Isles, Danes landed three Viking ships at the isle of Portland, Dorset in 786 AD, where they met and killed a local reeve and his men. |
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In the words of Geoffrey Parker, by 1588 'the capital ships of the Elizabethan navy constituted the most powerful battlefleet afloat anywhere in the world. |
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In 1573 English shipwrights introduced designs, first demonstrated in Dreadnought, that allowed the ships to sail faster and manoeuvre better and permitted heavier guns. |
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The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September. |
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A direct attack on the Danish lines failed but, later in the year, Alfred saw a means of obstructing the river so as to prevent the egress of the Danish ships. |
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In the one recorded naval engagement in 896, Alfred's new fleet of nine ships intercepted six Viking ships in the mouth of an unidentified river along the south of England. |
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Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships. |
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Alfred's ships immediately moved to block their escape to the sea. |
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Oakum was used for the caulking of the hulls of wooden ships. |
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Superior English ships and seamanship had foiled the invasion. |
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On one of the Velpin's screens, a flickering outline appeared around one of the abandoned ships littering the carbuncularly irregular outer hull of the Sepulcraft. |
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What ensued was a land battle between the crews of the grounded ships. |
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More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple. |
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The Royal Navy has named one ship and two shore establishments HMS King Alfred, and one of the first ships of the US Navy was named USS Alfred in his honour. |
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Unfortunately for the Danes, the fleet of reinforcements encountered a storm and lost more than 100 ships, and the Danes were forced to return to East Mercia in the north. |
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During the Second World War the city and surrounding area were a target for air raids as heavy industry was involved in the production of ships and armaments. |
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The leisure navigation and sporting activities on the river have given rise to a number of businesses including boatbuilding, marinas, ships chandlers and salvage services. |
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He retained 40 ships and their crews as a standing force in England. |
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Taylor's Bank is a large sandbank extending out to sea on the north side of the channel entrance to the river on which many ships have come to grief over the years. |
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Rapin de Thoyras, who was on board one of the ships, described it as the most magnificent and affecting spectacle that was ever seen by human eyes. |
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Norwegian merchant marine ships, often with Norwegian sailors still on board, were then sailing under the British flag and at risk of being sunk by German submarines. |
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Summing up the furious October 22-27 battle in the longest Naval communique of the war, the department identified six American ships lost in action. |
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In early 1066, Harold's exiled brother, Tostig Godwinson, raided southeastern England with a fleet he had recruited in Flanders, later joined by other ships from Orkney. |
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Many slaves died of disease in the crowded holds of the slave ships. |
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Harald of Norway and Tostig were killed, and the Norwegians suffered such horrific losses that only 24 of the original 300 ships were required to carry away the survivors. |
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Such has always been the importance of preserving the life and cargo carried by ships that pilots have been employed for centuries as freelance mariners. |
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For the transported, harsh and unhygienic conditions on the slaving ships and poor diets meant that the average mortality rate during the Middle Passage was one in seven. |
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Meanwhile, the Danish king's brother, Cnut, had finally arrived in England with a fleet of 200 ships, but he was too late as Norwich had already surrendered. |
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Harold assembled an army and a fleet to repel William's anticipated invasion force, deploying troops and ships along the English Channel for most of the summer. |
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However, the network linked with coastal port cities such as London, Liverpool, and Bristol, where cargo could be exchanged with seagoing ships for import and export. |
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Marc Isambard Brunel established the world's first mass production line at Portsmouth Block Mills making pulley blocks for rigging on the navy's ships. |
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John the Baptist, two ships, one of them from Bristol, came alongside. |
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They were the first ships that could leave the relatively placid and calm Mediterranean, Baltic or North Sea and sail safely on the open Atlantic. |
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The export of coal had become the railway's main business, but the staiths at Stockton had inadequate storage and the size of ships was limited by the depth of the Tees. |
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This enabled oceangoing ships to sail right into the Port of Manchester. |
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He embarked on a program of building ships larger than heretofore. |
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By 1963 the port of Manchester was the UK's third largest, and employed over 3,000 men, but the canal was unable to handle the increasingly large container ships. |
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In 1915, the Germans renounced these restrictions and began to sink merchant ships on sight, but later returned to the previous rules of engagement to placate neutral opinion. |
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In 1773, the tea ships moored in Boston Harbor were boarded by colonists and the tea thrown overboard, an event that became known as the Boston Tea Party. |
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In March 1718, while taking on water at Turneffe Island east of Belize, both ships spotted the Jamaican logwood cutting sloop Adventure making for the harbour. |
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The large fleet units in the Royal Navy consisted of amphibious warfare ships and aircraft carriers, until August 2014, when the last carrier was decommissioned. |
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