In 2002 a short naval skirmish over disputed fishing territory killed four South Korean sailors, further chilling relations.

This incident helped fuel increasing tensions between the two governments and an even larger naval skirmish was fought the next year.

The Georgian Navy attempted to intervene, but was defeated in a naval skirmish.

On the evening of 10 August a naval skirmish between the Russian task-force and several Georgian naval vessels took place.

Georgian Naval Forces were defeated with the loss of a coast guard cutter during a naval skirmish off Abkhazia.

William Claiborne, the trader on Kent Island, resisted the new settlement and conducted some naval skirmishes against it.

Just last year, the two countries engaged in a fierce naval skirmish in the Yellow Sea, raising anew the prospect of war across the border.

It did not mention the naval skirmish last Saturday in the Yellow Sea in which 4 South Koreans were killed and 19 wounded.

Following the naval skirmish the two destroyers began bombarding the city.

The Bahia incident was a naval skirmish fought in late 1864 during the American Civil War.