They scored several damaging hits with gunfire and a torpedo that disabled Mainz and prompted her commander to abandon ship.
Eventually, American military commanders hope to ship supplies up the Tigris all the way to Baghdad.
1794 June 1, 1828 Zacynthus, Greece Frank Abney Hastings, (born 1794 died June 1 , 1828 Zacynthus, Ionian Islands [Greece]) British naval officer who fought in the War of Greek Independence and was the first commander to use a ship with auxiliary steam power in naval action.
At around that time, Mesudiye took a serious hit that disabled three of her 150 mm guns; this damage, coupled with boiler trouble, led the Ottoman commander to detach the ship and send her back to port.
Sailing from Malacca on 20 November, Pellew's squadron passed along the Javan coast for 15 days, reaching Panka Point on 5 December and sending a boat under a flag of truce into Griessie with instructions for the Dutch commander to surrender his ships.
Naval historian Jørgen Barfod explains that the battle was fought "in a disorganized manner from beginning to end" since Tromp had given the order for each commander to attack the enemy ship closest to him.
A torpedo from the destroyer then hit the ship on her port side, amidships; this prompted the ship's commander to order the crew to abandon the stricken cruiser.
In the letter Sessions wrote: Sessions went on to request that the governor take measures to bring the ship's commander to account.
In 1915 Germany's supreme military leader, Kaiser Wilhelm, had authorised U-boat commanders to sink any ship they had reason to believe to be British or French, and to do so without warning, while still submerged.
In the larger scheme of life, the sudden news that Commander BrownWahler is getting ready to ship out and become a rarity in the Navy -- a woman in command of a warship -- strikes Mrs. Laychak and others among the grieving Pentagon families as a bit of footnote cheer and national-security reassurance in the continuing ordeal of grief and fear.
