Single-ship action

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This is a list of notable single-ship actions, naval bombardments and other naval events: (not complete yet)

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[edit] Single-ship actions

  • 1618 about May - Maltese Gran Galeone vs 3 Tunisians
  • 1697 September 5 Hudson's Bay - French ship defeats British force
  • 1781 May 30 Cape Santa Maria - 2 Dutch vs 2 British frigates

[edit] Russo-Swedish War

  • 1789 May 21 - Cutter Mercury under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Roman Crown captures Swedish 40-gun frigate Venus which, according to tradition, joins Russian navy under the same name

[edit] Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

  • 1798 July 15 - British battleship Lion vs Spanish frigates
  • 1800 October 9 - French privateer Confiance (Robert Surcouf) captures British East Indiaman Kent
  • 1801 May 6 - HM Sloop Speedy 14 (Cochrane) captures Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo 32
  • 1805 February 4 - French Hortense and Incorruptible sink HMS Arrow and HMS Acheron and capture 3 merchantmen of their convoy
  • 1805 July 11 - French defeat British (details)
  • 1805 July 19 - French Topaze (Baudin) captures HMS Blanche (Mudge)
  • 1805 August 10 - HMS Phoenix (Baker) captures French Didon 46 (Milius)
  • 1805 August 16 - HMS Raisonable 64 vs French Topaze 40
  • 1806 March 13 - HMS London and HMS Amazon capture French Marengo and Belle Poule
  • 1806 May 14 - HMS Pallas (Cochrane) vs French Minerve (Collet)
  • 1806 July 19 - HMS Blanche 46 captures French Guerrière 50
  • 1807 December 3 - HMS Curieux vs French Revanche
  • 1808 May 11 and 12 - HMS Wizard 16 vs French Requin 16
  • 1808 July 5 and 6 - HMS Seahorse 42 captures Turkish frigate Badere Zafer 52
  • 1808 March 6-8 - HMS San Fiorenzo captures French Piémontaise

[edit] War of 1812

[edit] Later 19th Century

  • 1853 November 17 - Russian steam frigate Vladimir captures Turkish/Egyptian steam frigate Pervaz Bahri in the Black Sea (first battle between steamships)
  • 1864 June 19 - USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama off Cherbourg
  • 1865 November 26 Battle of Papudo - Chilean corvette Esmeralda captures Spanish gunboat Virgen de Covadonga
  • 1868 January 28 Awa - In Boshin War
  • 1870 November 7 - French aviso Bouvet fights German gunboat Meteor off Havana
  • 1877 May 6 Pacocha - British Shah and Amethyst versus Peruvian rebels in monitor Huáscar
  • 1879 May 21 Iquique - Peruvian Huáscar sinks Chilean corvette Esmeralda

[edit] World War I

  • 1914 August 26 - British cruiser Highflyer defeats German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
  • 1914 September 14 - British auxiliary cruiser HMS Carmania sinks German auxiliary cruiser Cap Trafalgar near the Canary Islands
  • 1914 November 9 - HMAS Sydney defeats SMS Emden at the Cocos Islands
  • 1914 December 20 - German cruiser Königsberg sinks British cruiser Pegasus in Zanzibar

[edit] World War II

[edit] Naval bombardments

[edit] Other naval events

  • 1919 June 21 - Scuttling of German fleet at Scapa Flow
  • 1942 November 27 - Scuttling of French fleet at Toulon
  • 1943 August 23 - Scuttling of Danish fleet

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