The Israeli Navy sank a dinghy carrying four Palestinian guerrillas trying to enter northern Israel from the Lebanese coast, members of the Lebanese and Israeli security forces said today.
The Navy sank Mackinac as a target off the coast of Virginia on 23 July 1968, using her for target practice by United States Naval Academy midshipmen.
October 21, 1967: The Egyptian Navy sinks the Israeli destroyer INS Eilat, killing forty-seven sailors.
In addition to participating in the Bismarck sinking, the Polish Navy sank an enemy destroyer and six other surface ships, two submarines and a number of merchant vessels.
The Navy disabled one Argentine submarine, the Santa Fe, in South Georgia and sank the light cruiser General Belgrano but lost a number of ships due to air attack.
In a surprising, one-night attack the Indian Navy sank three vessels near the largest Pakistani port of Karachi, with no losses on its own.
The Russian Defence Ministry announced that the Russian Navy sunk a Georgian missile boat after two alleged attacks of such boats earlier that day.
During the Yom Kippur War the Israeli Navy sank five Syrian ships without a loss during the Battle of Latakia.
U.S. Navy attempts to repair the aircraft fail, as do Navy efforts to tow it, and the Navy eventually sinks Honolulu Clipper by gunfire on November 14.
The Navy sank five as targets in 1968 and 1969, and five others were scrapped in the early 1970s.