With the arrival of enemy heavy units upon the scene, Makarov, now exceeding his gunfire support range from shore, turned about and headed back to Port Arthur; and the Japanese fleet did not pursue.
Avellaneda's fleet pursued the English as far as the Old Bahama Channel.
Can a fleet pursue me while blinded in shadow?
They fled, gaining speed only slowly however, for the Anlonian fleet pursued them while pouring in their deadly rays, forcing the Bay-Raonii to maintain their own, power-drinking screens.
The British fleet hurried out to sea, and pursued in two divisions, separated by a distance of some miles owing to the haste with which they left port.
This much larger fleet pursued Constantine's ships, but they were waylaid by a storm, which destroyed 130 of his enemy's ships and killed five thousand of his men.
The fleet pursued Pique for a time, but could not catch her.
The best guess was that three fleets pursued the OOB.
A fleet of over twenty small Virginia ships and privateers pursued him, and in a one-sided engagement in April 1781, the British captured twelve were and the rest were either scuttled or burned.
After the French escaped and captured Malta in June, and invaded Egypt in July, Nelson and his fleet pursued them, eventually locating them anchored in Aboukir Bay on 1 August.