NAVAL BATTLES BY OCEAN, SEA &
RIVER
Pacific |
|
1941-45 |
The 35 most important battles,
with orbats, accessible through a map- interface. Maps are large and slow loading. |
|||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1865 |
The Battle of Papudo |
A naval engagement fought between Spain and a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet on November 26, 1865.
|
55 miles
north of Valparaiso, Chile, near the coastal commune of Papudo. |
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1828 |
Punta Malpelo / Malpelo Point |
Punta Malpelo, Tumbes, near the.
Peruvian-Ecuador border (3° 40’S). |
Peruvian Victory Over Two Colombian ships |
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1879 |
Punta
Chipana |
Corvette
action: Unión vs |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1879 |
Pisagua |
|
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1877 |
Pacocha |
“Admiral Bickford was a gunnery officer in
the corvette HMS Amethyst,
and saw action against the Peruvian iron-clad ship Huascar in the |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1879 |
Magallanes |
|
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
|
|
Off |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1879 |
|
Peruvian
“Huascar” Beat Chilean “Esmerelda” |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1877 |
The
Peruvian Ironclad Huascar Fought Two British
ships |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1914 November 1 |
German cruisers under von Spee
defeat British force, midway down the Chilean coast |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1880 |
Chancay |
Sinking Of The Covadonga |
Peruvian
Victory Over Chile |
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1839 |
Jean Blanchet, a privateer in
Peruvian service, sailed from |
Blanchet was killed but his
damaged ships escaped to |
||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
|
|
Peruvian Victory Over |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1824 |
|
|
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1820 |
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1820
on |
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1880 |
Running the blockade; Spanish
language site |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1903 |
|
|
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1879 |
|
|
|
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1879 |
The
Huáscar was captured by Chile during the War of the Pacific |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
( |
Abtao |
Near to |
Peruvian –
Chilean Victory Over
The Spanish royal fleet. |
|||||
Pacific |
Andean Littoral |
1866 |
“2 De Mayo” |
Off |
|
|||||
Pacific |
|
1943 March 26 |
|
US cruiser
force turns back a Japanese fleet |
||||||
Pacific |
|
2-5
Mar 1943 |
|
Us/Australian
V. Japanese |
|
|||||
Pacific |
|
1942 May 8 |
The Allies
Defended Australia And Port Moresby In New Guinea From Japanese seaborne
thrusts. |
|
||||||
Pacific |
|
|
|
Us
V. Japanese |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
|
|
Russian V. Japanese |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
Yellow Sea |
Japan defeats
Russia |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1894 September 17 |
Japan defeats
Chinese off Korea |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
4-12 Feb 1895 |
Weihaiwei |
Chinese V. Japanese |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
1419 |
|
Chinese/Korean
V. Japanese |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1905 May 27-28 |
The Russian
Baltic fleet sails round the world to the Far Eastern theatre, its commanders
riven with dissension, its crew with mutiny, and its ships covered with coal
and monkeys, but is defeated by Tojo in the straits between Korea and Japan |
This was one
of the most masterly and decisive naval battles of all time |
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1941-45 |
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1893-94 |
Mutineers supported a rebel army
with ops around |
Later, off the Southern coast of |
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1885 February 13 |
Raid on Shipu |
French attack
Chinese ships |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
|
Prince
Of Wales And Repulse |
British
V. Japanese |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1904-5 |
Port Arthur |
Japanese
bottle up the Russian fleet in this crowded harbour, bombarding the ships and
attacking with torpedo boats |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
1869 May 4-10 |
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern waters |
|
An alleged
attack by North Vietnamese vessels on US ships, probably manufactured to
justify US intervention. |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
1893 |
French Gunboat Diplomacy in Siam |
|
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1884 August 23 |
Small French
squadron annihilates Chinese force at Foochow (Fuzhou) |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1894 July 25 |
Feng-tao |
Japan defeats
China |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
1281 |
Chinese/Korean
V. Japanese |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Fareastern Waters |
1185 April 25 |
Dan-no-ura |
In the inland
sea, off present-day Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Fareastern
Waters |
|
Che-Mul-Pho |
Japanese
V. Russian |
|
|||||
Pacific |
Oceania |
1941 December 7 |
The valuable
ships of the US Pacific fleet [the aircraft carriers] were at sea when a
surprise Japanese air strike went in simultaneously with them declaring war. |
– some say
out of foreknowledge, and that the antiquated ships were left in harbour to
provide a ready made massacre that would inflame public opinion! |
||||||
Pacific |
|
1942 June 4-5 |
US fleet
sinks four Japanese carriers in western Pacific Ocean |
|
||||||
Pacific |
|
1847-1899 |
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
|
1944 June 19 |
US shoots
down hundreds of Japanese aircraft in "The Great Marianas Turkey
Shoot" |
|
||||||
Pacific |
|
1942 November 30 |
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
|
1942 – 3 |
Solomon Islands
campaign August 1942 – February 1943 |
Battles
of Guadalcanal – Savo I.
– Eastern Solomons
– Cape Esperance
– Santa Cruz
Is. – Naval Guadalcanal
– Tassafaronga
– Rennell I.
– Blackett Strait
– Operation Cartwheel
– New Georgia
– Kula Gulf
– Kolombangara
– Vella Gulf
– Horaniu – Vella Lavella
– Naval Vella Lavella
– Treasury Is.
– Choiseul – Empress Augusta Bay
– Cape St. George
– Green Is.
– Bougainville |
|
|||||
Pacific |
|
1942 August 8 |
Japanese destroy a |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
1942 October 26 |
near
Guadalcanal, USS Hornet sunk,
but Japanese withdraw |
|||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
January 29 |
USS Chicago lost |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
|
Very detailed site on this series
of battles |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
|
Us
V. Japanese |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
1943 November
2 |
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
1942 August 24 |
Japanese
aircraft carrier Ryuho sunk |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
|
Japanese
V. Us |
|
||||||
Pacific |
Solomons Sea |
1942 |
Off
|
|
||||||
Pacific |
|
1898 May 1 |
US Navy
attacks the Spanish fleet at anchor |
|
||||||
Pacific |
|
1600 December 14 |
Manila |
Netherlands
vs Spain |
|
|||||
Pacific |
|
1944 October
23-26 |
The Japanese
fleet was crushed in gigantic actions in the Sibuyan Sea,
the Surigao
Straits, off Samar,
and off Cape Engano |
|
||||||
|
Aegean |
1823 September 27 |
Lemnos |
Greece vs
Turkey west of Lemnos |
|
|||||
Mediterranean |
|
1620 May 11 |
|
Venice
defeats Spanish under Ribera |
|
|||||
|
|
1914-18 |
World
War I |
|
|
|||||
|
|
800 – 1797 |
|
|
||||||
|
|
1870-1914 |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
The prime source of information on
the "K.u.k. Kriegsmarine" and the |
|
|||||
|
|
47
.bc |
Tauris |
Tauris = Scedro, a little island between Hvar and Korula |
Caesar's general Vatinius in Brundisi defeated the Octavian fleet,
sinking its flagship. |
|||||
|
|
|
Believed To
Be Off The Coast Of Epirus |
0433 |
||||||
|
Adriatic |
|
|
|||||||
|
|
Oct
1379 |
Pulj |
Genoese
V. Venetian |
|
|||||
|
Adriatic |
1617 November |
Osuna’s victory |
Suspecting Venetian anti-Spanish
activities, the Duke of Osuna, Viceroy of Naples &
Sicily, narrowly defeated a Venetian fleet in the Adriatic |
|
|||||
|
|
551 |
Off
Senigallia |
Roman
V. Goths off the Umbrian port of the same name |
|
|||||
|
Adriatic |
1866 July 20 |
Off Lissa / Vis |
Austrians
under Admiral von Tegetthoff rams and drives off superior Italian fleet under
Persano, in what is said to be the world’s first ironclad battle |
|
|||||
|
|
1811 March 13 |
Lissa /
Vis |
British
frigate fleet defeats superior French/Venetian fleet |
|
|||||
|
|
1296 or 1299 |
Curzola / Korčula |
Genoa defeats
Venetian fleet and captures Marco Polo, who writes his memoirs while a
prisoner. |
|
|||||
|
|
1797 March 26 |
|
Austrian
vessels, supported by Venetian battleship, fight off French attack |
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
|
the Arab fleet was destroyed by Greek
fire, a new Byzantine weapon that had been used for the first time
only a few years before. |
As the Arabs retreated they were
caught in a storm that sank nearly all of their ships |
||||||
|
Aegean |
June 14 and 15 |
Suda Bay |
Greece
defeats Turkey And Egypt Near Suda Bay On The North Coast Of Crete |
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
January, 411 BC |
With about
twenty ships the Athenian Charminus battled with the Spartan left wing, the
only portion visible to him in the storm that was blowing. He sank three
ships before the rest of the Spartan fleet arrived and surrounded him.
Charminus retreated to Halicarnassus
after losing six ships. |
The fleets
met during a storm, with poor visibility, and after many of the Spartan ships
had become separated from the main fleet. |
||||||
|
|
1770 July 5-7 |
Second Chesma
/ Chesme |
Off western
Turkey, Russian fleet defeats and burns Turkish fleet |
|
|||||
|
|
1824 September 9 |
Second Budrun (Bodrun?) |
Off SW
Anatolia |
|
|||||
|
|
|
The
Empress Christina’s Russian fleet had broken through the |
After
the fleet was destroyed, the town was bombarded; ere |
||||||
|
|
1826 July 27 |
Samos |
Greeks Vs
Turkey Near Samos |
|
|||||
|
|
480
.bc |
|
Greeks
beat the Persians with a “periplus” outflanking manouevre, employing Aeginan
ships issuing from their home port and from behind a headland. The Persians finally
called off their invasion of |
This classic sea battle took place in The |
|||||
|
Aegean |
April |
Rhodes |
4 Maltese
defeat 13 Turks near Rhodes |
|
|||||
|
|
190BC |
Panormus / Panionion |
Seleucids issue from their base at
Ephesus, and defeat Rhodians, who are allied to |
east of |
|||||
|
|
407
.bc |
Notium
/ Notion |
Peloponnesian
War: Spartans Bt. Athenians NE Of Samos, the Athenian base. |
0407 |
|||||
|
Aegean |
1698 September 20 |
Near Samothrace / Samotrakia |
Venice vs
Turkey, Tripoli and Tunis |
|
|||||
|
|
1688 June 15 |
Naxos |
Venice again
attacks "Alexandria Caravan" with its Turkish and Algerian escort
east of Naxos, . |
In The
Cyclades |
|||||
|
|
1686 July 12 |
Naxos |
Venice
Attacks "Alexandria Caravan" With Its Turkish And Tripolitan Escort
Between Naxos And Nicaria |
In The
Cyclades |
|||||
|
|
|
In The
Cyclades |
0376 |
||||||
|
Aegean |
|
Nauplia / Navplia |
On the |
|
|||||
|
|
190BC |
Myonnesus |
Romans defeat Seleucids |
north of |
|||||
|
Aegean |
1690 September 8 |
Mitylene |
Venice Fights
The Combined Fleet Of Turkey, Algiers, Tripoli And Tunis Near Mitylene |
|
|||||
|
|
1826 September 10 and 11 |
Mitylene |
Greeks vs
Turkey near Mitylene |
|
|||||
|
|
1686 October 4 |
Mitylene |
Venice vs
Turkey near Mitylene, on or near Lesbos. |
|
|||||
Mediterranean |
|
1717 June 12, 13 and 16 |
Mediterranean |
Venice vs
Turkey in northern Mediterranean |
|
|||||
Mediterranean |
Aegean |
1913 |
The Greeks Drove The Turk Fleet Back Into The Dardanelles, Winning Control Of The Aegean. Swiftly Followed By
The First Ever Naval Air Mission – The Bombing Of The Turk fleet at Nagara. |
The Final
Naval Battle Of The First Balkan War |
||||||
|
|
1912 October |
During The Balkan And
Italo-Turkish Wars |
|
||||||
Mediterranean |
Aegean |
1943 |
Dodecanese |
|
||||||
Mediterranean |
|
334BC |
Lade
|
|
||||||
|
|
494bc |
The
Persian (Phoenician) fleet met the Greeks off the |
|||||||
Mediterranean |
|
1717 July 19 |
Venice And
Its Allies Vs Turkey, Between Capes Matapan (Tanaro) And Malea on S coast of
Peloponnese |
|
||||||
Mediterranean |
|
1649 May 12 |
Near Izmir (Smyrna) a Venetian fleet of 19 ships, under
Giacomo Riva, defeated a Turkish fleet of 11 ships, 10 galleasses (mahons) and 72 galleys. |
During The
Cretan Wars |
||||||
|
|
1824 September |
First Budrun (Bodrun?) |
Greeks Vs
Turkey And Egypt, Off SW Anatolia |
|
|||||
Mediterranean |
|
376BC |
|
In The |
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
1662 September 29 |
Defeat of the “Alexandria Caravan" |
Venice defeats
Turkish "Alexandria Caravan" between Kos and Kalymnos in the
Dodecanese |
|
|||||
|
|
1667 February 25 and 26 |
Crete |
Venice
defeats Turkey near Crete |
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
Cos |
In the
Dodecanese islands |
0258 |
||||||
Mediterranean |
|
191BC |
Corycus [Cissus] |
Romans defeat Seleucids, who are
allied to Macedon. |
between |
|||||
|
|
394
.bc |
|
Spartan
V. Persian, Off The |
0394 |
|||||
Mediterranean |
|
201BC |
|
|
northeast of |
|||||
|
Aegean |
1822 June 18-19 |
Chios |
Greek rebel
fleet under Constantine Kanaris defeats Turkish fleet of Kara Ali |
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
|
Chios |
Philip V of
Macedon defeated by the Egyptians, Rhodians, and Pergamese in the
Dodecanese |
0201 |
|||||
|
Aegean |
1825 June 28 and 29 |
Cerigo |
Greeks vs
Turkey And Egypt South Of Cerigo, The Island Between Cape Malea And Crete |
|
|||||
|
|
1646 August 14 |
Canea, Crete |
Inconclusive
fight between Christians and Turks near Canea, Crete |
|
|||||
|
|
1645 October 1 |
Canea, Crete |
Christians vs
Turks near Canea, Crete |
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
1645 September 28 or 29 |
Canea |
Christians vs
Turks between Suda and Canea, Crete |
|
|||||
|
|
1807 July 1 |
Russian Fleet
Under Admiral Alexei Seniavin Defeats Turks Near Mouth Of Dardanelles |
|
||||||
|
|
1770 June 4 |
Athens |
Russia vs
Turkey South of Athens |
|
|||||
|
|
480bc |
A
2 day Greek V. Persian battle off Euboea |
0480 |
||||||
|
Aegean |
406 bc |
Arginusae islands |
Peloponnesian
V. Athenians |
Between
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
1825 June 1 |
Andros |
Greece
defeats Turkey between Euboea and Andros |
|
|||||
|
|
1671 May |
Aegina |
Privateers
Beat Off A Force Of Turkish Galleys Near Aegina, The Island In The Saronic
Gulf |
|
|||||
|
Aegean |
July 8 and 10 |
|
Venetians
under Mocenigo defeat Turks |
|
|||||
|
|
1973 |
Yom Kippur War |
Red Sea & off the Levant |
The world’s first missile boat
battles |
|||||
|
Eastern Mediterranean |
1824 November 12 and 13 |
Spinalonga |
Greeks vs
Turkey and Egypt near Spinalonga |
|
|||||
Mediterranean |
|
190
BC |
Side |
Rhodians defeat Seleucids |
Side (port in Pamphylia) |
|||||
|
Eastern Mediterranean |
1827 September 29 |
Salona Bay |
Greeks vs
Turkey in Salona Bay |
|
|||||
|
Eastern Mediterranean |
1823 October 23 |
Pondikonisi |
Greeks vs
Turkey near Pondikonisi |
|
|||||
|
Eastern Mediterranean |
1668 February 8 and 9 |
Pelagia |
Venice
defeats Turkey near Pelagia |
|
|||||
|
|
352
.bc |
|
Phocian
V. Macedonian |
0352 |
|||||
|
|
1798 August 1–3 |
|
Bonaparte landed in |
With night falling and facing a
superior fleet, the famous British Admiral Nelson instigated one of the
greatest naval battles of all time. |
|||||
Mediterranean |
Eastern Mediterranean |
c. 1190BC |
|
The Egyptians surprised the 'Sea Peoples' in the |
A long article here,
well illustrated from ancient inscriptions and murals. |
|||||
|
Eastern Mediterranean |
September 22 |
Nikaria |
Greeks vs
Egypt near Nikaria |
|
|||||
|
|
190
.bc |
Myonnesus |
Roman
V. Antiochus |
0190 |
|||||
|
|
1661 August 27 |
Milos |
Venice and
Malta defeat Turkey near Milos |
|
|||||
|
|
Eurymedon River (II) |
Roman Forces
Under Lucius Aemilius Regillus Defeat A Seleucid Fleet Commanded By Hannibal, On The South
Coast Of Anatolia |
|
||||||
|
|
|
Eurymedon River |
Off the coast of |
At
the Persian court, the news of the defeat created great unrest, and king
Xerxes was murdered. |
|||||
|
|
191
.bc |
Cyssus |
Roman
V. Antiochus |
0191 |
|||||
|
|
|
Cypriot
Salamis |
0450 |
||||||
|
|
Cypriot Salamis |
In Salamis Bay at eastern end of Cyprus, Demetrius I Poliorcetes defeats the
fleet of Menelaeus brother of Ptolemy I of Egypt |
0306 |
||||||
|
|
307
.bc |
Cypriot
|
Macedonian
V. Egyptian |
0307 |
|||||
|
|
411
.bc |
Cynoessema |
Peloponnesian
V. Athenian |
0411 |
|||||
|
|
458
.bc |
Cryphalea |
Athenian
V. Peloponnesian |
0458 |
|||||
|
|
1668 (late) - |
Crete |
Barbary
"Turks" defeat Venice south of Crete |
|
|||||
|
|
1882 July 11 |
Bombardment of |
|
|
|||||
|
|
Acre |
Bombardment
of Acre |
|
||||||
Mediterranean |
|
655 |
“ |
200 Arab ships defeat 500
Byzantines by chaining themselves together, thus converting affairs into a
land battle on the sea. |
Between
Rhodes And Cyprus |
|||||
|
|
1697 July 6, September 1, September 20 |
|
Contarini
(Venice) vs Turkey in a series of battles |
|
|||||
|
Eastern Mediterranean |
1659 August 26 or 27 |
|
Contarini
(Venice) vs Kapudan Pasha (Turkey) |
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
Gulf Of Lyons |
1795 July 13th |
|
Hood
(British) With 14 Battleships Defeats Villaret-Joyeuse (French) With 12 East Of Toulon |
|
|||||
|
|
1499 August |
Zonchio |
|
|
|||||
|
Ionian sea |
1821
March 4 |
Zakinthos |
Greeks vs |
|
|||||
|
|
1772 November 6-8 |
west of Patrai / Patras |
Russia
defeats Turkey |
|
|||||
|
|
1804 August 3, 7, 23/24 and 28 and September 2 |
Tripoli |
5 raids on
Tripoli |
|
|||||
|
|
1797 May 16 |
Tripoli |
Danish
vessels get the better of Tripolitanian corsairs near Tripoli, Libya |
|
|||||
|
Ionian Sea |
|
the Inousses
islands |
Below Methoni are the islands
known as the Inousses; many
naval battles and shipwrecks here. |
|
|||||
|
Ionian Sea |
1940 November 1 |
British fleet
attacks Italians anchored at Taranto, inspiring the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor |
|
||||||
|
Ionian Sea |
1625 June 26 |
Syracuse, Sicily |
6 Bizertans
defeat 5 Maltese galleys near Syracuse, Sicily |
|
|||||
|
Ionian Sea |
March 22 |
Libyan coast? |
Italians press the issue against a
|
||||||
Mediterranean |
|
429BC |
Rhium / |
In The |
|
|||||
|
|
|
0425 |
|||||||
|
Ionian Sea |
1940 July 9 |
British Fleet
Attacks Italian Fleet Off Calabria |
|||||||
|
Ionian Sea |
1538 September 28 |
At The
Entrance To The Ambracian Gulf; alternative website |
Ottoman fleet
under Barbarossa defeats Spanish-Venetian fleet |
||||||
|
Ionian Sea |
|
Displaying great ingenuity, Catherine the Great’s
Russian fleet penetrated to the Ionian and defeated a Turkish fleet |
|
||||||
|
Ionian Sea |
1825 November 15 |
near Navarin / Navarino |
Greeks vs
Turkey (and allies?) near Navarin / Navarino, off the west coast of the Morea |
|
|||||
|
|
|
Egyptian/Turkish
fleet destroyed by allied British/French/Russian
fleet in famous clash off west coast of Morea. |
|
||||||
|
|
429
.bc |
Naupactus |
Athenian
V. Peloponnesian |
0429 |
|||||
|
|
1825 August 3, November 25, 26, 29, 30 and December 6 and 7 |
Missolonghi |
. vs Turkey
(and allies?) near Missolonghi |
|
|||||
|
|
|
Methoni / Modon / Modone/ Methonie |
Modon /
Modone/ Methoni Was A Large Venetian Settlement On Cape Akritas, The
Westernmost Of The Three Peloponnesian peninsulas. |
|
|||||
|
|
1571 October 7 |
Christian
coalition decisively defeats Turkey in the Gulf of Patras off Nafpaktos /
Naupactus |
|
||||||
|
Ionian Sea |
December 17 |
Indecisive British-Italian fight
off Libya |
|
||||||
|
|
429
.bc |
|
Athenian
V. Peloponnesian |
0429 |
|||||
|
Ionian Sea |
1716 July 8 |
Corfu |
Corner
(Venice) fights an inconclusive battle against Jannum Koggia (Turkey) east of
Corfu |
|
|||||
|
|
1940 November 27 |
Using the |
|
||||||
|
|
|
Cape
Passaro / Passero, SE Extremity Of |
British
V. French off SE Sicily |
|
|||||
|
Ionian Sea |
1941 March 28 |
British
defeat Italians 100 miles due west of Crete, sinking at least two
battleships, and confine Italian capital ships to port for the rest of the
war. |
|||||||
|
|
256
.bc |
Cape Ecnomus, South Coast Of Sicily |
The
Roman Fleet, escorting troop transports, Broke Through The Carthaginian
Centre, And Although Enveloped, Managed To Return To Envelope In Turn The Carthaginian
fleet. |
0256 |
|||||
|
|
435
.bc |
|
Corinthian
V. Corcyrean |
0435 |
|||||
|
|
31 BC September 2 |
Actium
/ Aktion |
Outside the
Ambracian Gulf Octavian and Agrippa decisively defeat Antony
and Cleopatra, who nevertheless escape
through the blockade |
0031 |
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
1676 |
Palermo |
French vs
Netherlands and Spain |
|
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
1610 August 21 &
October 10th |
Off Tuscany? |
Tuscany vs
Turkey |
|
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
260
.bc |
Mylae,
west of Messina |
Roman
V. Carthaginian |
0260 |
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
36
bc |
Mylae,
west of Messina |
Roman
Civil War? |
0036 |
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
|
|
French
V. Spanish |
|
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
|
|
Sicilian/Catalan
V. French |
|
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
North Of
Messina; Punic Wars? |
0260 |
|||||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
1653 March 13 |
Leghorn
(Livorno) |
Johan van
Galen's ships defeat Badiley |
|
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
800 – 1797 |
|
|
||||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
1652 September 7 |
Elba |
English v. Dutch
off the Italian coast |
|
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
249
.bc |
Drepanum,
|
Roman
V. Carthaginian |
0249 |
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
474
.bc |
|
Syrcusan
V. Etrurian On The Campanian coast off the Greek town of |
Off
the Greek colony of |
|||||
Mediterranean |
Tyrrhenian |
849
AD |
Battle of Ostia |
|
|
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
30
May 1378 |
Venetian
V. Genoese |
|
||||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
1810 |
On |
The British line overcame enemy gunboats
and shore batteries with grapeshot. 28 transports were captured, and 31 destroyed. |
||||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
1676 January |
Alicuri / Stromboli |
France vs
Netherlands and Spain |
Off Stromboli
island north of the Messina Strait. |
|||||
|
Tyrrhenian |
Aegates Islands, West Of Sicily |
Roman
victory over the Carthaginians,
ending the First Punic War |
0241 |
||||||
|
|
1744 February 22 |
draw between
British and Franco-Spanish fleets south of Toulon |
|
||||||
|
Western Mediterranean |
25
August 12, 20, 22 and 1499. |
Second battle of Sapienza |
Turkish navy defeated the Venetians over
four days of battle: Antonio Grimani,
the disgraced Venetian Admiral, was arrested on 29 September and exiled. |
|
|||||
|
Western Mediterranean |
Sapienza
/ Sapientza |
Genoese
destroy Venetian fleet by the small island opposite the ports of Modon and
Koron / Corone, in the Messinian Gulf off Cape Akritas, SW Peloponnese |
|
||||||
|
Western Mediterranean |
|
|
British
V. Vichy French |
|
|||||
|
|
20
May 1756 |
|
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
Western Mediterranean |
1940 July 3 |
British fleet
attacks French fleet in harbour in Algeria |
|
||||||
|
|
1670 August |
Gibraltar |
Gibraltar British/Dutch
ships defeat an Algerine force near Gibraltar |
|
|||||
|
|
468 |
|
Roman
V. Vandal |
The
|
|||||
|
Western Mediterranean |
1665 March |
Barbary Coast |
France
defeats Algeria |
|
|||||
|
Western Mediterranean |
1801 April 5 |
French defeat
initial British assault, British counter-attack and defeat French-Spanish
force. |
|
||||||
|
Western Medi-terranean |
1704
August 13 (Old Style) |
|
British/Dutch narrowly defeats
French near Malaga |
|
|||||
|
Western Medi-terranean |
|
Gibraltar Straits |
French defeat
Netherlands |
|
|||||
|
Western Medi-terranean |
1607 April |
Gibraltar |
|
|
|||||
|
Western Medi-terranean |
1816 August 27 |
Algiers |
Bombardment
of Algiers |
|
|||||
|
Western Medi-terranean |
Algiers |
French attack
on Algiers |
|
||||||
Inland
waters |
|
1915-18 |
“The African Queen" was inspired
by this campaign. |
Two 40ft launches were conveyed
overland from |
||||||
Inland
waters |
|
1813
May 28-29 |
Sacket's Harbor |
US General Jacob Brown turns back
British under Sir John Prevost |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
|
1812
July 19 |
Sacket's Harbor |
US turns back British naval attack |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
Lake
warfare |
152x |
Lake Texcoco |
Following his initial expulsion
from the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan [Mexico City], the Conquistador Hernan
Cortez improvised a fleet of gunboats on the lake then surrounding the city,
which then supported the assault over the causeways which regained the city. |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
|
1363 |
A waterborne siege by the Han against the Ming-held town of Nanchang, on China’s largest freshwater
lake, in east central China |
Involved the
use of Lou Chuan (tower ships),
essentially floating fortresses |
||||||
Inland
waters |
|
1814 |
Lake Champlain and Plattsburg
(September 11)
- US squadron under Thomas Macdonough defeats British under
George Downie |
|
||||||
Inland
waters |
|
|
|
British
V. Us |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
|
A.D. 265 |
|
The early Chinese
Emperor Vouti of Wei and Chow placed a large fleet of war junks on the
Yangtse-Kiang river to attack the |
East |
|||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
840 onwards |
The Rus On The |
|
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
1880 -98 |
The Link Is
To Winston Churchill’s famous account – he was present in 1898. |
|
||||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
1896 – 8 |
|
|
||||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
1865-1870 |
|
|
||||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
1630 September 4-8 |
River Elbe |
Denmark
forces a retreat of Hanseatic ships in Elbe River |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
1870 |
River Aquidaban |
( |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
|
Riachuelo |
Paraguayan
V. Brazilian |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
1861 - 1862 |
Operations
On The |
Around
Forts Henry & Donelson, & around |
|
|||||
Inland
waters |
River warfare |
197x |
Operations
on the |
These
Extended Later Into |
|
|||||
Inland waters |
River warfare |
|
la Pedrera |
In the Putumayo River,
an Andean tributary of the Amazon, during frontier skirmishes. |
The Peruvian gunboat " |
|||||
|
|
Karwar |
Portuguese
defeat Indians near Karwar |
|
||||||
|
|
1405
to 1433 |
Over fifty years before the first
Portuguese caravels traversed the southern tip of Africa in 1488, fleets of
hundreds of immense Chinese junks brought under the Chinese tributary system
the vast periphery of the Indian Ocean, and may have sailed further. |
A dramatic reversal of naval
policy meant that, less than a century afterwards, it was a crime to go to
sea from |
||||||
|
|
Cheul |
Portuguese
defeat Indians near Cheul |
|
||||||
|
Arabian Sea |
1612 October 29-31 |
Suvali / Swally |
British
Defeat Portuguese 10 Miles North Of Surat, India (Swally port no longer
exists) |
|
|||||
|
Arabian Sea |
1509 February 3 |
Diu is an island lying NW of Mumbai off the south coast of Gujarat's Kathiawar
peninsula, separated from the mainland by a tidal creek and now one of |
Portugal's
India viceroy destroys Muslim fleet off Western India, controls spice trade |
||||||
|
Arabian Sea? |
1971 December 9 |
|
Pakistani
submarine Hangor sinks Indian
frigate Kukri (first
submarine sinking since World War II) |
|
|||||
|
|
26
Aug - |
Trincomalee
(4) |
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
|
|
Trincomalee
(3) |
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
|
Sep
1767 |
Trincomalee
(2) |
British/Indian
V. Mysore/Hyderabad |
|
|||||
|
|
|
Trincomalee
(1) |
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
|
1782 September 3 |
Hughes fleet
damages Suffrens but withdraws |
|
||||||
|
|
1782 February 17 |
First
indecisive fight between Suffren (French) and Hughes (British) off SE India |
|
||||||
|
Bay Of Bengal |
|
Sadras |
The French had a naval
base at |
The British rear
failed to give good support and later three captains were court-martialled.
The French line gave way but Pocock's ships were unable to catch the fleeing
enemy. |
|||||
|
|
1782 April 12 |
Second
indecisive fight between Suffren and Hughes off SE India |
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
|
|
Negapatam
(4) |
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
Bay
of Bengal |
3
Aug 1758 |
Negapatam
(2) |
British
V. French |
Inconclusive action between a British squadron commanded by
Vice-Admiral George Pocock and a French squadron commanded by Admiral Comte
D' Ache. |
|||||
|
|
1782 July 6 |
Third
indecisive fight between Suffren and Hughes off SE India |
|
||||||
|
Bay Of Bengal |
1690 |
Madras/Chennai |
France vs
Britain and Netherlands near Madras |
|
|||||
|
|
1783 June 20 |
Suffren
drives Hughes off shore of Cuddalore. Last of the five battles between
Suffren and Hughes |
|
||||||
|
Bay Of Bengal |
1749 April 29 |
|
Pocock
(British) defeats d'Ache (French) |
|
|||||
|
|
|
Negapatam
(1) |
British
V. French |
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
Us/Dutch/British/Australian
V. Japanese |
Japanese
destroy ABDA fleet |
|||||
|
Malacca Strait |
Boxing Day |
Malacca Strait |
The Straits
are cleared of Pirates by the Indian Ocean Tsunami |
|
|||||
|
|
200x |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
Rear
Admiral Friedrich Kekule was sent to occupy the Dutch colonies at the |
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
1790 September 8 and 9 |
Russia vs
Turkey |
|
||||||
|
|
|
Kara
Burur |
Russian
V. Turks |
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
Russian
V. German/Turkish |
|
|||||
|
|
1853
October 30 |
Sinope |
Russian
battleships defeat Turkish frigates at Sinope, Turkey |
|
|||||
|
|
1789
June 2-4 |
Sinope |
Russia vs
Turkey at Sinope |
|
|||||
|
|
April 20th 1453 |
Constantinople |
Turks and
Genoese fight near Istanbul |
|
|||||
|
|
74
.bc |
|
Roman
V. Pontic fleets at the mouth of the Bosporus |
0074 |
|||||
|
|
1915 |
The attempt to force the Dardanelles |
Preceded the even more
costly and unsuccessful attempt at a landing on the Gallipoli peninsula to
the north |
|
|||||
|
|
1470-1554 |
|
Reis grew up on the Gallipoli
peninsula and fought in many of the Ottoman campaigns in the |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
|
Dardanelles |
During The
Balkan And Italo-Turkish Wars |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
1807 February 19 |
Dardanelles |
British
battleships under Duckworth burn several Turkish ships in Dardanelles |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
1807 May |
Dardanelles |
British vs
Turks at mouth of Dardanelles |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
1657
July 17 |
Dardanelles |
Venetians,
Maltese and Papal forces defeat Turks in Dardanelles |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
1656
June 26 and 27 |
Dardanelles |
Venetians and
Maltese defeat Turks in Dardanelles |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
June 21 1655 |
Dardanelles |
Venetians
defeat Turks |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
1654 May 16 |
Dardanelles |
Turks under
Murad defeat Venetians under Giuseppe Delfino in Dardanelles |
|
|||||
|
Dardanelles |
May 26 1646 |
Dardanelles |
Venice
defeats Turkey at the Dardanelles mouth |
|
|||||
|
|
The
Spartan Admiral Lysander surprises and destroys most of the Athenian fleet
beached on the south side of the straits. |
0405 |
|||||||
|
Dneiper Estuary |
1788 July 14/25 |
Russia
defeats Turkey in Black Sea near Fidonisi |
|
||||||
|
1790 July 19 |
Russia vs
Turkey |
|
|||||||
|
Western Black Sea |
1791
August 11 |
Russia gets
slightly the better of Turkey in a largely inconclusive battle off Bulgaria |
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
Russian V. Turks |
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
1629
September 16 |
Wismar |
Sweden
defeats Holy Roman Empire near Wismar |
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
1613 |
Swedish V. Danish |
|
||||||
Baltic |
|
1000 September 9 |
Swold was an island
probably on the North German coast, near Rügen. The place
cannot now be identified, as the Baltic coast is much changed since, partly
by the gradual silting up of the sea, and partly by the storms of the 14th century. |
Erik
Hakonson, in his iron-sheathed longship at the head of a Dano-Swedish fleet,
ambushed and rammed Olaf of Norway who was returning from the Baltic. Olaf
went down with his ship. |
||||||
Baltic |
|
November 28 |
Poland
defeats Sweden |
|
||||||
Baltic |
|
1064 |
Nisaa |
Danes
V. Norwegian |
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
|
|
|
||||||
Baltic |
|
1705 June 26 |
Kotlin |
Swedish ships
attack Russian base of Kotlin |
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
1790 May 4 |
Fredrikshamn |
Swedish
galley fleet (140 galleys, 4 transports) attacks Russian galley detachement
of capt. Sjlissov (60 galleys, 3 large rowing frigates). Attack is a success,
Russians withdraw after a fight, losing at least 20 galleys and all 3
frigates. |
Gulf Of
Finland |
|||||
Baltic |
|
|
Entholm |
Danish
V. Swedish |
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
|
Danish
language site!! |
|
||||||
Baltic |
|
1849 May 11 |
Schleswig-Holstein
vs Denmark near Bulk |
Danish
language site |
||||||
Baltic |
|
|
|
|
||||||
Baltic |
|
1644 May 16 |
|
9 Danes
defeat 26 Dutch ships which have been hired to support Swedes |
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
1565 July 7 |
|
49 Swedish
ships defeat 22 Danish and 14 Lubeck ships |
|
|||||
Baltic |
|
|
20
Swedish/Danish/Prussian ships defeat 9 Lubeck ships |
|
||||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
1790 June 22 |
|
Swedish fleet
blockaded in the bay of Vyborg attempts a breakout. Swedes lose 7 ships of
the line and three frigates, as well as smaller ships (4 ships and 2 frigates
are taken by Russians), but succeed with the breakout and save the remainder
of the fleet |
Gulf Of
Finland |
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of
Finland |
|
|
Swedish
V. Russian |
Gulf Of
Finland |
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
1800-1917 |
|
|
||||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
1790 June 28 |
Svensksund / Rochensalm |
Decisive
victory of the Swedish galley fleet, but too late to affect the war. |
Midway down
the Gulf Of Finland, on the north coast. |
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of
Finland |
|
Svensksund /
Rochensalm |
Swedish
V. Russian |
Gulf Of
Finland |
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
1790 May 2 |
Revel
/ Reval / Tallinn |
Swedish fleet
of 22 battleships and 4 frigates under command of Admiral Duke Carl of
Sondermanland attacks Russian fleet under admiral Chitchagov (9 battleships,
5 frigates) anchored off Revel. Attack proves unsuccessful, Swedes lose two
ships of the line and withdraw. |
Gulf Of
Finland |
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
1719 May 24 |
Osel Island |
Russian
battleships fight Swedish ships |
|
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
1921 |
Operations against the Kronstadt
mutineers |
The loyal units of the Red Army attacked the island fortress by land
as well as water, since the Gulf of Finland was partially frozen over. |
|
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of
Finland |
Apr
1789 |
Hoegland |
Russian
V. Swedish |
|
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
1788 July 17 |
Hoegland |
This Russo – Swedish Affair Is
Remarkable Not Only For The Obstinate Fighting On Either Side, But For Being
Fought In A Storm, And In A |
In Gulf Of
Finland. Bloody engagement between Swedish and Russian fleets. Both sides
lose a ship, but Swedes withdraw. |
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
0600 – present |
|
excellent site which goes right
back into previous centuries in some considerable detail. |
|
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of
Finland |
Sep
1721 |
Grangram |
Russian
V. Swedish |
|
|||||
Baltic |
Gulf Of Finland |
British raid on Kronstadt |
An Island naval base In The Gulf Of Finland, About 50 Miles From
Petersburg |
|
||||||
Baltic |
|
1362 |
|
Danish
V. German |
|
|||||
Baltic |
1676 June 1 |
Dutch/Danish
fleet defeats Swedish fleet south of Oland |
|
|||||||
Baltic |
1564 August 12 and 13 |
Denmark vs
Sweden SE of Oeland in the Baltic |
|
|||||||
Baltic |
1611 August |
Minor action
between Danes and Swedes in Kalmar Sound |
|
|||||||
Baltic |
Jun
1676 |
|
Dutch/Danish
V. Swedish |
|
||||||
Baltic |
Öresund |
1807 September 2-7 |
British land
and sea forces under Admiral Gambier and General Cathcart capture the Danish
fleet |
|
||||||
Baltic |
Öresund |
|
|
Nelson
destroys moored Danish ships off Koebenhavn to prevent France taking them
over |
Nelson
Turns A Blind Eye To Parker, and wins a hard – fought victory. Willemoes is
the Danish hero. |
|||||
Baltic |
Öresund |
1658 October 29 |
Dutch get the
better of a Swedish fleet in a large battle near Copenhagen, in support of
Denmark. Danish ships watch but are unable to participate |
|
||||||
Baltic |
Ruegen |
1676 May 25 and 26 |
Ruegen |
Dutch/Danish
fleet defeats Swedish fleet between Bornholm and Rugen in the Baltic Sea |
|
|||||
Baltic |
Ruegen |
Jun
1677 |
|
Danish
V. Swedish |
|
|||||
Baltic |
Ruegen |
1864 March 17 |
Prussia vs
Denmark, off east coast of Ruegen island |
|
||||||
Baltic |
Ruegen |
25
May 1676 |
Jasmund |
Swedish
V. Danish |
|
|||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
1657 September 12 and 13 |
Moen, Denmark |
Denmark vs
Sweden fight inconclusively near Moen, Denmark |
|
|||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
|
Swedish
V. Danish |
|
||||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
July 1 and 2 |
Denmark and
Netherlands defeat Swedish fleet |
|
||||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
1644 August 10 |
Dutch fleet
under Thijsen brushes past Danish fleet under King Christian IV in Kjoge Bay,
on the west coast of the island of Zealand. |
Danish
language site |
||||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
1849 May 3 |
Kiel |
Schleswig-Holstein
vs Denmark near Kiel |
|
|||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
May 31 and June 1 |
Femern (Fehmern) |
Denmark
defeats Sweden between Femern and Warnemunde |
|
|||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
1644, October 13 |
Fehmern / Femern,
Germany |
Combined
Swedish/Dutch fleet badly defeats Danish fleet off off Fehmern island |
|
|||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
1849 |
Danish ships
seek to bombard Eckernförde
in support of the advancing Danish army, but get the worst of the artillery exchanges. |
|
||||||
Baltic |
The Belts |
1644 July 1 |
Colberger Heide (Colberg Heath) |
Danish and
Swedish fleets fight an inconclusive battle off NE Germany |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1644 May 25 |
|
13 Danes get
slightly the better of 33 hired Dutch ships |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
|
|
English/Dutch
V. French/Spanish |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
|
Third
|
The battle,
between Howe and Villaret de Joyeuse, took place about 430 miles west of
Brittany, and resulted from British attempts to intercept an American grain
convoy being escorted into Brest
harbour. |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
|
|
French
V. British |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
1759 November 20 |
British
defeat French near St Nazaire |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
56
.bc |
|
Roman
V. Veneti |
0056 |
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
1622 October |
La Rochelle |
France
vs ? near La Rochelle |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
La Rochelle |
Spain defeats
England near La Rochelle |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
|
|
British
V. French |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
|
|
British
V. French/Spanish |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
1805 July 22 |
Cape Finisterre |
Calder
(British) defeats Villeneuve (French) in minor action near Cape Finisterre |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
14
May 1747 |
|
On |
The battle lasted five hours but the whole convoy escaped |
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
56
.bc |
|
Roman
V. Veneti |
0056 |
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
|
|
English
V. French |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
23
Jun 1795 |
British
V. French |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
7
Jun 1761 |
The Green Howards and the Marines carried out one of the most
successful ever amphibious operations against this island off Quiberon Bay. |
The British Marines acquired the title "Royal" Marines after
this action. |
||||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
|
British
V. French |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
1781 December 12 |
“Second Ushant” (Ushant
/ Ouessant / Wissant) |
British
capture French merchant ships |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Biscay |
July 27 1778 |
“First Ushant” (Ushant
/ Ouessant / Wissant) |
Keppel
(British) with 30 battleships fights an inconclusive action against
d'Orvilliers (French) with 28 |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
|
Off |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
|
1677 February? |
Tobago |
French vs
Netherlands |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1782 April 12 |
The Saints
/ Les Saintes |
Rodney
(British) with 36 battleships defeats De Grasse (French) with 34 in the West
Indies |
Nr small
islands South Of Guadeloupe |
|||||
Atlantic |
|
|
The Columbus Navigation Homepage |
Landfall of Christopher Columbus.
Not exactly a conflict, apart from that with the Carib Indians, but well,
what the hell.. |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1807 February 6 |
Santo Domingo |
Duckworth
defeats Leissegues (French) near Santo Domingo |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1803 |
Santo Domingo |
Duckworth
(British) defeats Rochambeau (French) near Santo Domingo |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1898 July 3 |
|
|
||||||
Atlantic |
|
10
May 1667 |
Saint
Kitts |
English
V. Dutch/French |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
Apr-May
1687 |
Puna |
Buccaneer
V. Spanish |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1762 |
Havana |
British
V. Spanish |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Caribbean |
12
Oct 1748 |
Havana |
British
V. Spanish |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
|
|
British
V. French |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
Caribbean |
9
Mar - 9 Apr 1741 |
Cartagena |
In 1741 it withstood a three-month
British siege. |
3
Month Siege By The British |
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1544 -1741 |
British
attacks on Cartagena |
Cartagena , NW Colombia, a port on the |
Cartagena suffered sackings and
invasions in 1544, 1560, and in 1586 (by Sir Francis Drake), and 1741. |
|||||
Atlantic |
|
166x |
|
Bloody Bay is the last beach
accessible on the northern |
An English fleet defeated a
combined Dutch and French fleet. |
|||||
Atlantic |
Chesapeake Bay |
1862 March 8 and 9 |
First battle
between ironclad warships |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
|
|
British
V. French |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
1781 September 5 |
Battle of the Capes |
De Grasse
(French) drives off British |
|
||||||
Atlantic |
|
1545 August 15 |
The Solent |
English and
French fight off Portsmouth |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
21-29 Jul 1588 |
The Armada |
defeat of the
Spanish Armada
off southern England; the remainder are wrecked on the Irish coast due to the
unknown tides of the Gulf Stream. |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
1750 - 1840 |
|
An anecdotal history of the
vessels’ voyages, actions and people to about 1840 - the last eighty or
ninety years of the sailing warship. |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
|
|
|
English
V. French |
|
|||||
Atlantic |
English Channel |
18-20
Feb 1653 |
|
English
V. Dutch |
Actually
Fought Closer To Cap La Hogue |
|||||
Atlantic |
English Channel |
February 28-March 2 1653 |
Tromp,
outnumbered, loses a dozen men-of-war and 50 merchantmen to Blake |
Actually
Fought Closer To Cap La Hogue |
||||||
Atlantic |
|
1652 August 26 |
De Ruyter's 36 men-of-war hold off |