The MacDougalls maintained their own fleet and fought naval engagements to defend their island of Mull against MacDonald and Norwegian-vassal encroachment in the years before Largs. The sea battle off Mull in 1260 was part of the pre-Largs jockeying for position among the Hebridean lords and demonstrated that the MacDougalls were a naval as well as a land power.
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