At the same time, the Foreign Office was looking into the possibility of a maritime blockade.

He also said his country would never impose a maritime blockade of the British overseas territory.

Britain, the nation most affected by the maritime blockade, displayed a great show of force in the port city to pressure France to negotiate peace.

It started with a maritime blockade angry Canadian fishermen holding an Alaska ferry at bay for three days.

Israel imposed a ground, air, and maritime blockade, and announced it would allow only humanitarian supplies into the Strip.

Israel responded with an aerial and maritime blockade, and a massive bombing campaign and ground invasion of Lebanon.

Estelle departed for the Gaza Strip to try to break Israel's maritime blockade in the summer of 2012.

Syria, which maintains 40,000 soldiers in Lebanon, has kept up a tight maritime blockade of the 300-square-mile Christian enclave north of here.

Completed on May 1938, the auxiliary cruiser joined the maritime blockade on Republican ports in the Mediterranean.

In response to repeated rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Navy imposed a maritime blockade on the area.

NATO officials said no ships were able to run the blockade successfully, and that the maritime blockade had a major effect in preventing escalation of the conflict.

Aside from daily shelling of Christian areas, Syrian troops have maintained a tight maritime blockade of the 300-square-mile Christian enclave north of Beirut.

On May 31, 2010, an international incident broke out in the Mediterranean Sea when foreign activists trying to break the maritime blockade over Gaza, clashed with Israeli troops.

Israel has combined the Israeli and Egyptian blockade of Gaza's land borders with a maritime blockade of Gaza's port and coastline by the Israeli Navy.

Peru implemented a maritime blockade of the port of Guayaquil demanding a revocation of the deal, as well as an acknowledgment of Peruvian sovereignty over the disputed territories.

It took six months and 100,000 deaths in Bosnia for the United Nations finally to order a maritime blockade, backed by NATO, on Serbia, the aggressor against beleaguered Bosnia.

The design, seemingly a technological step backwards, was partly a response to fears that a dependence upon fuel oil-all of which had to be imported-could leave the class crippled in the event of a successful maritime blockade.

"If it comes to a trade embargo and a maritime blockade, we can't do anything unless we are prepared to reform domestic law with emergency legislation," Mr. Ozawa said during a meeting last week with other coalition leaders.

Australia has had frigates patrolling the Persian Gulf for 10 years in the United Nations maritime blockade of Iraq and was the first ally to offer the United States military support after September 11, 2001.

"Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human" was a flotilla that planned to break the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel by sailing to Gaza on 5 July 2011.

Pompey escaped to Brundisium, there awaiting sea transport for his legions, to Epirus, in the Republic's eastern Greek provinces, expecting his influence to yield money and armies for a maritime blockade of Italy proper.

He likened Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza to U.S. naval actions in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which the U.S. had deemed lawful though not part of an armed conflict.

With the onset of World War II, Horton was put in command of the so-called Northern Patrol enforcing the distant maritime blockade of Germany in the seas between Orkney and the Faroes.

Rosas' second term also dealt with a conflict against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, as well as maritime blockades imposed by France and the United Kingdom, continuing problems with the Unitarians, and a belligerent Uruguay led by the Colorado Party.

After withdrawing funding for Russia and opposing a British and French plan to include the Bolsheviks as allies against Germany in 1918, the United States extended its maritime blockade of Germany to include Soviet Russia and began covertly supporting Russian opposition factions.