In the first four months of the war they sank more than 110 vessels.

In less than a month, she sank six vessels.

It was a serious hazard to shipping, sinking 119 vessels and taking 114 lives.

The storm sank three merchant ships, and two other vessels.

Usually just referred to as a storm, these systems can sink vessels of all types and sizes.

In the course of her raiding mission, she sank only two vessels and captured a third.

Mosquito's and Beaufighters from the two groups sinking several vessels.

In all, Chasseur captured or sank 17 vessels before returning home.

It was impossible to make an attack from the water, as the Russians had sunk vessels at the entrance to the harbor.

Iranian coastal guns also sank three Iraqi vessels in the channel, it said.