Commandos boarded five ships without incident, but when they dropped from helicopters onto the largest, the Turkish-owned Mavi Marmara, soldiers opened fire when they said they were attacked by passengers with chains, knives, bars and clubs.
The water was pumped out and the ship refloated without incident.
The ship continued patrolling without incident except for a hangar fire that killed one aircraft mechanic on 20 September.
By the time Rainier learned of the outbreak of war, Linois was already at Isle de France, where his ships had arrived without incident on 16 August.
Meanwhile, volleys of missiles rain into Korea's east sea (never call it the sea of Japan), with no notice to shipping, although so far without incident.
F John Nicoll, a retired captain who spent years piloting the run to Puerto Rico, said he doubts the age of the El Faro was a factor, noting that there are many older ships plying US waters without incident.
Escorted by Ark Royal, three battleships, two cruisers and 10 destroyers, the ship flew them off without incident on 2 August 1940 from a point west of Sicily, although two of the Hurricanes crashed on landing.
The book was printed in England by Villiers, which shipped the first consignment to California without incident.
In any event both ships made it to Gibraltar without incident, after which MacBride was given the honour of taking Rodney's despatches back to Britain.
The military said that the ship, the Estelle, had been seized without incident and taken to the port of Ashdod, in southern Israel, and that the more than two dozen people on board, including five European lawmakers and a former Canadian legislator, would be turned over to the police.
