Japanese depiction of a Portuguese carrack—the type of trading vessel that brought goods, guns, and Western religion to Japan and was at the center of the October 1565 Battle of Fukuda Bay.
Fortune favors the bold: The wooden-hulled Austrian ship-of-the-line Kaiser rams the Italian ironclad Re di Portogallo during the July 1866 Battle of Lissa.
11 October 1797: The Dutch (aka Batavian) fleet, now allied with Napoleonic France, once again poses an existential naval threat to Britain. The epochal Battle of Camperdown ensues.
Roger of Lauria
Cao Cao gazes at the full moon over the Yangtze River