When the vessels were dispatched the wind was at force 8. The weather conditions proved too extreme for the 140-ton Firebird, the Canadian Forces' dedicated fireboat, to leave harbour. The Canadian Coast Guard vessels arrived, but the weather prohibited anything beyond standing by. and arrived several hours later.
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On 1 January 1761, a cyclone off Pondicherry, drove Newcastle, , and onshore, where they wrecked. Newcastle was able to leave harbour, but the wind shifted, impeding her and eventually driving her ashore two miles south of Pondicherry. The same storm also caught and . They tried to get out to open water, but were unable to.
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Because she already had steam up, Patrol was able to leave harbour, Forward did not and was trying to raise steam during the entire battle. When she did finally get out of Hartlepool, the German battlecruisers had already turned east to make their escape. By the time that Forward exited the harbour, they were out of sight.Massie, p.
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For five days after 15 October, the British blockading squadrons were forced to withdraw from the French coast by a storm, leaving the French invasion forces free to sail. Conflans declined to leave harbour, as he believed his fleet was not ready, and on 20 October the British returned to blockade the French Atlantic ports again.
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105 From 1996, Otama was given approval to conduct coastal surveillance operations using its specialist intelligence-gathering equipment on Indonesia in particular to obtain information on East Timor. At the end of March 1999, Otama was reassigned to in Western Australia, where the s were operating.Owens, in Centenary of Australian Submarines, pp. 103-4Subs leave harbour behind, The Daily Telegraph, p.
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Air attacks sank of shipping, with another damaged. Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison was also worried morale was breaking, noting the defeatism expressed by civilians. Other sources point out that half of the 144 berths in the port were rendered unusable and cargo unloading capability was reduced by 75 percent. Roads and railways were blocked and ships could not leave harbour.
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She returned to Portsmouth on 19 November and began loading the 45th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, and the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment two days later. Illustrious set sail on 23 November and reached Famagusta on 29 November. She returned to Portsmouth on 7 December and she did not leave harbour until 30 January 1952 when she resumed her customary role as a training ship.McCart, pp.
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On 7 July he discovered Martin's force, and Agamemnon retreated back to Hotham's fleet with the French in pursuit. On 8 July Hotham sailed to meet them, and on 13 July the Battle of the Hyères Islands resulted in a minor British victory, with one French ship sunk, and Martin retired to Toulon.Gardiner, p.117 Although a squadron sailed for the Atlantic in September, the main Toulon fleet did not leave harbour again during the course of the year.
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The Raid on Yarmouth, which took place on 3 November 1914, was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British North Sea port and town of Great Yarmouth. Little damage was done to the town since shells only landed on the beach, after German ships laying mines offshore were interrupted by British destroyers. , a submarine, was sunk by a German mine as it attempted to leave harbour and attack the German ships. A German armoured cruiser was sunk after striking two German mines outside its home port.
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PS Newcastle gathers speed to leave harbour, c1920 Typical 'sixty-miler' enters harbour in ballast for a load of coal, 1923. The formation during the nineteenth century of the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship CompanyAn Early Link with the New South Wales Railways Wylie, R.F. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, October, 1954 pp126-128 saw the establishment of regular steamship services from Morpeth and Newcastle with Sydney. The company had a fleet of freighters as well as several fast passenger vessels, including PS Newcastle and PS Namoi. Namoi had first-class cabins with the latest facilities.
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Both sides claimed victory, although it was a tactical draw given that no ships were lost on either side (with the exception of the Holland) and both convoys escaped. However strategically the battle was a British victory as the Dutch fleet retreated to Texel and did not leave harbour again during the war; in addition Dutch merchant trade remained crippled thanks to constant capture of their merchantmen by British privateers. At least one convoy did make it to the Baltic, but it flew under the Swedish flag and was accompanied by a Swedish frigate.Davies 1851, p. 472.
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"Samoa", Encyclopædia Britannica The harbour was also the site of an infamous 15 March 1889 naval standoff in which seven ships from Germany, the US, and Britain refused to leave harbour while a typhoon was clearly approaching, lest the first moved would lose face. All the ships were sunk, except the British cruiser Calliope, which barely managed to leave port at 1 mile per hour and ride out the storm. Nearly 200 American and German lives were lost, as well as six ships sunk or damaged beyond repair. Western Samoa was ruled by Germany as German Samoa from 1900 to 1914 with Apia as capital.
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McCart, pp. 39–40 Hermes and escorting a convoy in June 1940 Captain Richard F. J. Onslow relieved Captain Hutton on 25 May and Hermes continued her fruitless patrols. After returning from one such patrol on 29 June, the ship was ordered to leave harbour only nine hours after her arrival and to begin a blockade of Dakar as the Governor of French Senegal had declared the colony's allegiance to the Vichy French regime. On the night of 7/8 July, a boat from Hermes attempted to drop four depth charges underneath the French battleship Richelieus stern in conjunction with a torpedo attack by the Swordfish of 814 Squadron.
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The Raid on Yarmouth, which took place in , was an attack by the German Navy on the British North Sea port and town of Great Yarmouth. Little damage was done to the town itself, since shells only landed on the beach once German ships laying mines offshore were interrupted by British destroyers. One British submarine was sunk by a mine as it attempted to leave harbour and attack the German ships, while one German armoured cruiser was sunk after striking two mines outside its own home port.Massie (2004), pp 309–311 British propaganda fuelled by the German raid on Scarborough In December 1914, the German navy carried out attacks on the British coastal towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
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Arrestment, in Scots law, is the process by which a creditor detains the goods or effects of his debtor in the hands of third parties till the debt due to him shall be paid. It is divided into several kinds: # Arrestment in security, used when proceedings are commencing, or in other circumstances where a claim may become, but is not yet, enforceable # Arrestment in execution, following on the decree of a court, or on a registered document, under a clause or statutory power of registration, according to the custom of Scotland. # Arrestment of a ship, for a maritime claim; if the debtor fears a ship will leave harbour, he can apply for a warrant to dismantle the ship. By the process of arrestment the property covered is merely retained in place; to realize it for the satisfaction of the creditor’s claim a further proceeding called "forthcoming" is necessary.
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Onslow at the Australian National Maritime Museum, alongside the destroyer and the HM Bark Endeavour replica Onslow was decommissioned from service on 30 March 1999.Subs leave harbour behind, The Daily Telegraph, p. 4 While in service, Onslow travelled .Casey, Onslow finds new home On the same day, sister boat Otama was permanently reassigned to the submarine base at in Western Australia, clearing the way for the closure of . The submarine was gifted to the Australian National Maritime Museum in April 1999. On 3 May 1999, the submarine was towed from Platypus to the museum at Darling Harbour. Onslow was docked next to , another warship belonging to the museum, and was officially opened to the public on 1 June 1999. Onslow is the second RAN submarine to be preserved as a museum ship; the first was sister submarine , which was decommissioned at the end of 1998 and installed at the Western Australian Maritime Museum.
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