U.S. forces sank two Iranian warships, Joshan and as many as six armed speedboats in the engagement.

By now they almost always used the armed speedboats of the IRGC navy, and attacked many tankers.

Iran does not acknowledge attacking commercial ships, but its armed speedboats and larger craft regularly retaliate for Iraqi air raids on tankers carrying Iranian oil.

U.S. forces sank one frigate, one gunboat, and as many as six armed speedboats in the engagement and seriously damaged a second frigate.

Several armed speedboats later joined the ships, according to the Voice of Lebanon, a Christian radio station.

The battle, the largest for American surface forces since World War II,[1] sank two Iranian warships and as many as six armed speedboats.

The strait could also be mined or ships could easily be attacked by armed Iranian speedboats.

Later, jets from the aircraft carrier Enterprise sank or badly damaged three large armed speedboats that were shelling oil facilities or merchant ships.

She had an encounter with armed speedboats in the Gulf of Aden during the delivery voyage from Korea.

Iran announced today that it would begin amphibious maneuvers in the gulf on Thursday that would include the deployment of armed speedboats.