Secondly, the Supply Vessels of every size and every kind, which keep the Fleet supplied with food and fuel, munitions and repairs, and everything else a great fleet needs.
Harold of England had no great fleet in any case; and what he had was off the Yorkshire coast, where his brother had come to claim the Crown, backed by the King of Norway.
Five years after this, Maximian, proud of the vast treasures that daily flowed in upon him, fitted out a great fleet, and assembled together all the forces in Britain.
In his reign a certain king of the Picts, named Rodric, came from Scythia with a great fleet, and arrived in the north part of Britain, which is called Albania, and began to ravage that country.
For they returned in a great fleet, and with a prodigious number of men, and invaded the parts of Albania, where they destroyed both cities and inhabitants with fire and sword.
Dost tell me that a beardless youth could with one galley overcome a great fleet, commanded by the most noted captains on our coast?
It was indeed a marvellous feat for one galley thus to destroy a great fleet.
King Francis collected a great fleet in Normandy, and threatened an invasion of England.
But the governance of the Norman courtiers was hateful to the English, and when Godwine and his sons came back a year later, and sailed up the Thames with a great fleet, the whole land was well pleased.
When his coronation festivities were over, Napoleon set his mind seriously to the task of concentrating a great fleet in the Channel, to cover the crossing of his army.
By this time, August 16, summer was nearly over; and Falmouth, if taken, would offer no shelter to a great fleet.
In contrast with these Liburni, who divided their days between fishing and piracy and knew all the tricks of fighting at sea, the crews of Antony's great fleet were in many cases landsmen who had been suddenly impressed into service.
In 492 he dispatched Mardonius with an army of invasion to subdue Attica and Eretria, and at the same time sent forth a great fleet to conquer the independent island communities of the Ægean.
It is an instance such as we shall see recurring throughout naval history, in which the power of a great fleet is largely or completely neutralized by a new or device in the hands of the nation with the smaller navy.
The north, wasted and ruined, was at his feet, and the reappearance next year of Sweyn with a great fleet ended in a mere fiasco.
Next year an attempt was made to collect a great fleet at London in order to ‘entrap the army from without.
The respite was utilized for an apparently determined attempt to organize a great fleet.
There was a great Fleet with us in the Downs, and several of them were driven from their Anchors, and made the best of their way out to Sea for fear of going on shore upon the Goodwin.
Ptolemy, setting out with a great fleet, drew off many of the Greek cities.
It was a great fleet of boats that set out one bright, sunny morning on the voyage to Pingaree, carrying all the men, women and children and all the goods for refitting their homes.
They assembled a great fleetof warships and met the conqueror in the Hafrsfjord.
He glanced round the bay at Olaf's great fleet, and thought of the reward that Sweyn had offered as the price of his treachery.
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