Battle of Rügen (1715)

Battle of Rügen (1715) Part of the Great Northern War Date July 28, 1715 (O.S.) August 8, 1715 (N.S.) Location Rügen, Swedish Pomerania (present-day Rügen, Germany) Result Tactically Indecisive, Strategic Danish victory Belligerents  Swedish Navy  Royal Danish Navy Commanders and leaders Claes Sparre Peter Raben Strength 20 ships of the line 2 frigates[1] 21 ships of the line 4 frigates[1] Casualties and losses 145 dead 333 wounded[2] 127 dead 485 wounded[2]

Great Northern War Campaigns Denmark Russia and the Baltic provinces Poland-Lithuania/Saxony Ottoman Empire Sweden and Northern Germany Norway Finland Battles 1st Riga 1st Tönning Humlebæk 1st Narva Petschora Düna Rauge Erastfer Druskininkai Vilnius Klissow Hummelshof Nöteborg Saladen Pultusk Systerbäck Wesenberg Thorn Jakobstadt Posen 2nd Narva Punitz Gemauerthof Warsaw Praga 1st Grodno Fraustadt Kletsk Kalisz 2nd Grodno Holowczyn Neva Malatitze Rajovka Lesnaya Desna Koniecpol Veprik Oposhnya Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye Sokolki Poltava Perevolochna 2nd Riga 2nd Vyborg Pruth Campaign Helsingborg Køge Bay Gadebusch 2nd Tönning Bender Finland Hogland Pälkäne Storkyro Gangut Stralsund Fehmarn Rügen Stresow Dynekilen Göteborg Strömstad Fredriksten Carolean Death March Ösel Stäket Grengam Treaties

Battle of Rügen was a major naval battle fought on August 8, 1715 outside the Swedish island of Rügen (present-day Germany) during the Great Northern War. In the Swedish navy 20 ships of the line and two frigates participated, in the Danish 21 ships of the line and four frigates. The battle ended with a Danish strategic victory but was tactically inconclusive. None ships were lost on either side but many soldiers were either dead or wounded – Sweden: 478, Denmark: 612.

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