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The Royal Navy's HMS "Diamond" shoots down a drone launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen over the Red Sea using a Sea Viper missile.
2023-12-16

Thirty-four migrants drown in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean Sea. The Moroccan Navy rescues 26 survivors and recovers 11 bodies.
2018-10-2

News emerges that the Russian Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft with fourteen people on board, missing since Monday over the Mediterranean Sea, was shot down. Russia accuses Israel of not giving enough warning before launching its attacks, causing Syria to shoot the plane down.
2018-09-18

Russian frigate "Yaroslav Mudry" passes through the English Channel, and is shadowed by Royal Navy coastal defence ship HMS "St Albans".
2018-04-20

The Royal Navy's Sabre 6 fires warning shots at a Spanish Guardia Civil vessel after it twice attempted to cut across the path of United States Navy submarine Florida 6 during an incursion into Gibraltar's territorial waters. Gibraltar officials say Spanish vessels regularly stray deep into its territorial waters and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has attacked the incursions as provocative.
2016-05-5

Britain's Ministry of Defence says the Royal Navy has rescued 541 people this week as they scoured the Mediterranean Sea in operations to counter refugee smugglers. The HMS Enterprise, a survey vessel, rescued 439 migrants, and HMS Richmond, a Type 23 frigate, rescued 102 migrants. The asylum-seekers were transferred to the Norwegian support ship Fiem Pilote.
2015-10-29

A Swedish rescue crew finds 51 dead migrants in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea that has saved 439 other people. In addition, three women are found dead in another migrant boat and another corpse is found during ten rescue operations on Wednesday that have saved around 3,000 people, according to the Italian coast guard. [http:--in.reuters.com-article-2015-08-26-europe-migrants-italy-casualties-idINL5N1112ZZ20150826 (Reuters)], [http:--www.therepublic.com-view-story-e5a7d09f76d1441bb8d687190f966ac2-EU--Italy-Migrants (AP via "The Columbus Republic")]date=August 2019
2015-08-26

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake strikes in the Mediterranean Sea, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south southwest of Avsallar, Turkey.
2013-12-28

Gordon Brown and COBRA deploy the Royal Navy to rescue stranded Britons around the world.
2010-04-19

Announcement of first animals that spent their entire lives without oxygen were discovered in depths of Mediterranean Sea. They belong to three new species from phylum Loricifera.
2010-04-6