Her sojourn in mothballs was a short one, though, for the North Korean assault on South Korea, hurled across the 38th parallel on 25 June 1950, caused a drastic naval build-up.

As they had in 1757, the French planned to defend Louisbourg by a large naval build-up.

In 1934, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ernle Chatfield, began to press for a new naval build-up sufficient to fight both Japan and the strongest European power.

The naval build-up included building four Gangut class battleships for the Baltic sea and four Imperatritsa Mariya class battleships for the Black sea.

Many are involved in disputes with China over maritime borders - and they will be looking anxiously at Beijing's naval build-up, our correspondent says.

An expedition the previous year had failed to seize the town because of a French naval build-up.

Manavikraman, Samoothiri Raja of Kozhikode began the naval build-up in 1503 in response to Portuguese attempts at extracting trading privileges.

The euphemistic ADS had been adopted in planning stages to ward off concerns about a naval build-up.

He did not recognize what political effect the German naval build-up would entail, and also would not have been in the position to move his brother toward a different policy.

Some historians see the German naval build-up as the principal cause of deteriorating Anglo-German relations.