The Levant Schooner Flotilla was an Allied naval organisation during World War II that facilitated covert and irregular military operations in the Aegean Sea from 1942–1945. It was primarily organised by the British Royal Navy and consisted of a series of commandeered caïques, or local schooners, manned by British sailors, special forces, and Greek volunteers.
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The LevantSchoonerFlotilla was an Allied naval organisation during World War II that facilitated covert and irregular military operations in the Aegean...
and soldier in the Second World War. Seligman would create the LevantSchoonerFlotilla naval commando unit in the Aegean Sea. Seligman was born in Leatherhead...
World War II. He was deployed to the Aegean Sea as part of the LevantSchoonerFlotilla and distinguished himself through his command of modern Greek....
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(July 2, 1812): The capture on the Detroit River of the American merchant schooner Cuyahoga Packet by several members of Canadian Provincial Marine in a rowboat...
there: the sloop-of-war Queen Charlotte and the brig General Hunter. The schooner Lady Prevost was under construction and was put into service a few weeks...
7. Patterson dispatched Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones and a small flotilla to wait outside of the Rigolets heading eastward, towards the passes Mariana...
and its marines. On 9 May 1775, sailors and mariner-militiamen aboard a flotilla under the command of Colonel Benedict Arnold captured a British sloop-of-war...
of the Royal Navy led by Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson to destroy a flotilla of French vessels anchored in the port of Boulogne, a fleet which was thought...
May OS) Fredrikshamn/Hamina in Finland – Swedish galley flotilla defeats Russian galley flotilla. 3 and 4 June (23 and 24 May OS) – Action off Kronstadt...
morning of 29 August 1824, the 86 warships of the Ottoman and Egyptian flotilla detected the Greek fleet and proceeded with a pincer movement, using advantageous...
and Duke of Gloucester, based at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard. The schooners Seneca and Governor Simcoe were also taken into service. The chief officer...
encountered a flotilla of about fifty schooners, convoyed by Spanish brigs Marte and Amalia. Captain Porter elected to attack, and soon forced the flotilla to seek...
and the owner and commander of a frigate named Benbow, trading with the Levant. In May 1687 he commanded a merchant vessel, Malaga Merchant, and was aboard...
Nottawasaga Bay and on 13 August they destroyed its fortifications and the schooner Nancy that they found there. They then returned to Detroit, leaving two...
on 16 November 1852. Tegetthoff received his first command, the naval schooner Elisabeth, in 1854. This was at the time of the Austrian Navy's intensive...
and cut off by the Romans they rebuilt the city walls, and used a light flotilla to demoralize commerce and interrupt the grain supply to Rome from Alexandria...
be condemned by a prize court. Mercator | Denmark | May 1800 A Danish schooner captured by USS Experiment commanded by Lieutenant Maley entering the Haitian...
24.28389 (HMHS Britannic) HMS Broke 8 November 1942 A Thornycroft type flotilla leader that suffered heavy damage in Operation Terminal and later sank...
and the schooner HMS St Lawrence), participating in a series of raids. After the British failed to destroy the American Chesapeake Bay Flotilla at the...
operating along the American Atlantic coast. After defeating a US Navy gunboat flotilla, a military force totaling 4,370, composed of British Army, Royal Marines...