Battle of the Gulf of Riga

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Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Part of World War I
Date August 8-19, 1915 Location Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea Result Russian Defensive Victory
Belligerents
Kaiserliche Marine	Russian Navy
Commanders
Vizeadmiral Ehrhard Schmidt	Vice-Admiral Vasily Kanin

v • d • e Baltic Sea 1914-1918 Swedish iron ore - Gotland - Gulf of Riga - Operation Albion - Moon Sound - Ice Cruise - British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

The Battle of the Gulf of Riga was a World War I naval operation of the German High Seas Fleet against the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea in August 1915.

The operation's objective was to destroy the Russian naval forces in the Gulf and facilitate the fall of Riga to the German army in the later stages of the Central Powers' offensive on the Eastern Front in 1915. The German fleet, however, failed to achieve its objective and was forced to return to its bases; Riga remained in Russian hands until eventually falling to the Germans on September 1, 1917.

Contents 1 Order of battle 1.1 Russia 1.2 Germany 2 References

[edit] Order of battle

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[edit] Russia

• Battleship: Slava
• Gunboats: Grozyashiy, Kharbry, Sivuch
• Minelayer: Amur
• Flotilla of 16 destroyers

[edit] Germany

• Battleships: Nassau, Posen, Braunschweig, Elsaß
• Battlecruiser: Moltke
• Cruisers: Augsburg, Bremen, Graudenz, Pillau
• Flotilla of 56 destroyers

[edit] References

• Account of Russian WWI naval operations in the Baltic Sea