Besides bombarding Palaly, they took over Muttur town facing Trincomalee harbour, shelled the harbour, launched a ground attack on Muhamalai, the gateway to Jaffna, and launched amphibious assaults on islands off the coast of Jaffna.
Working motorboats include ferries, fishing boats, motor barges, tugs, coasters, passenger boats, police and harbour officials' launches, fuel and water boats, fire-fighting craft, and many others.
The day after Freight Books, a home for more than 80 authors which was named Scottish publisher of the year in 2015, formally went into liquidation, the first title from Adrian Searle's Wild Harbour Books launched in Glasgow.
Matt Smith came close to selection in the first place, but has a collision with the harbour master's launch on Friday to thank for his last-minute gatecrashing of history.
The sail-past at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard was led by HMS Medusa, a harbour defence motor launch.
The Japanese carmaker has long harboured ambitions to launch itself into aerospace.
The IS group, which uses social media in recruiting and spreading its message, is believed to harbour ambitions of launching a cyber-war against the West.
Supermarket group Morrisons harbours ambitions to launch its own internet delivery service, amid talk that it could be interested in Ocado.
A network of canals connected Bruges with the coast at Ostend and Zeebrugge, through which small warships such as destroyers, light cruisers and submarines could travel and find a safe harbour from which to launch raids into the English Channel and along the coasts of southeast England.
Adrian Searle, formerly of Freight, has launched Wild Harbour Books.
