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The Battle of the Porpoises (Portuguese: Batalha das Toninhas) is the name given to a military blunder involving the Brazilian Navy in the Gibraltar Strait, near the end of the First World War. [1] While on patrol for potential German submarines, the crew of the Bahia slaughtered a passing shoal of porpoises, mistaking them for the periscope of ...
October 6, 1777: New York: British victory 2nd Battle of Saratoga: October 7, 1777: New York: American victory: Also called the Battle of Bemis Heights. British under Burgoyne driven back and forced to surrender 10 days later; American victory demonstrates to France that the Americans can win; Franco-American treaty follows in 1778. Battle of ...
Rear-Admiral Yves Joseph Marie de Kerguelen-Trémarec (13 February 1734 – 3 March 1797) was a French Navy officer. He discovered the Kerguelen Islands in 1772 during his first expedition to the southern Indian Ocean.
Animated map of the battle, 6–8 May. U.S. B-17 bombers based in Australia [42] and staging through Port Moresby attacked the approaching Port Moresby invasion forces, including GotÅ's warships, several times during the day on 6 May without success. MacArthur's headquarters radioed Fletcher with reports of the attacks and the locations of the ...
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HMS Porpoise was a 12-gun sloop-of-war originally built in Bilbao, Spain, as the packet ship Infanta Amelia. On 6 August 1799 HMS Argo captured her off the coast of Portugal . [ 2 ] Porpoise wrecked in 1803 on the North coast of what was then part of the Colony of New South Wales , now called Wreck Reefs , off the coast of Queensland , Australia .
HMS Porpoise (12), voyage to New South Wales 13 August 1806 – 26 January 1808: Governor of New South Wales 31 July 1808: Commodore: HMS Porpoise, Tasmania 3 April 1810 – 25 October 1810: Commodore: HMS Hindostan (50), returning to England. 31 July 1811: Appointed Rear-Admiral of the Blue (backdated to 31 July 1810) 12 August 1812
HMS Acasta was an Acasta-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, and the name ship of that class. She was built between 1911 and 1913, and was initially designated a K-class torpedo boat destroyer, having at various times the pennant numbers G40, H59 (1914) or H00 (1918). [1]