This
list of naval battles is a chronological list
delineating important
naval fleet
battle.
- Note: If a battle's name isn't known it's just
referred to as "Action of (date)".
Ancient
Middle Ages
- 456 - Romans under Flavius Ricimer defeat Vandals near
Corsica
- 468 Cape Bon -
Vandals defeat East and West Romans
- 551 Sena Gallica -
The Byzantines defeat the Ostrogoths
- 655 Battle of the Masts
- Arabs under Uthman defeat
Byzantines under Constans II
- 663 August Baekgang - Tang
Dynasty and Silla defeat Baekje and Japan
- 677 or 678 Syllaeum -
Byzantines defeat Arabs (first use of "Greek
fire")
- 697? - Greeks under John defeat Arabs
- 698 Carthage - Arabs
defeat Greeks under John at Carthage
- 698 - Imperial Constantinopolitan fleet defeats
Kibyrrhaeot rebels
- 717 September 3 - Byzantines under Leo III defeat
Arabs
- 718 Spring - Byzantines under Leo III defeat
Arabs
- 727 - Byzantine central fleet destroys provincial Hellas
and Cyclades fleets
- 747 Ceramea -
Byzantines destroy large Arab fleet
- 806? - Moors defeat Franks under Hadumar near
Corsica
- 807 - Franks under Burchard defeat Moors at
Sardinia
- 813 - Byzantines defeat Arabs
- - Franks under Irmingar defeat Moors near
Majorca
- 820 - Arabs defeat Franks? near Sardinia
- 821 - Byzantine central fleet defeats provincial fleets
in civil war
- 841 - Arabs defeat Venetian squadron near
Taranto
- 849 Ostia - Italians vs
Muslims off southern Italy
- 853? - Byzantines defeat Syrians ?
- 868 - Byzantines under Niketas Oryphas destroy 2 Arab
fleets near Thrace and in the Gulf of Corinth
- 880 Night Battle
of Cephalonia - Byzantines under Nasaris destroy Arab
fleet
- 885 - Frisians defeat Vikings
- 888 Second
Milazzo - Arabs defeat Byzantines
- 908 Battle in the
Aegean Sea - Byzantines under Himerios defeat
Arabs
- 912 Chios -
Syrian-Cilician fleet defeats Byzantine squadron under
Himerios
- 932 Lang-shan
Jiang
- 941 - Byzantine fleet destroys Kievan fleet under Igor
near Bosporus Strait
- 938 First
Battle of Bach Dang River - Vietnamese defeat Southern Han fleet
- 956 - Tunisian fleet destroyed by Christians near
Mazara
- 958 - Tunis vs Christians in Messina Strait
- 964 - Arab fleet destroys Byzantine fleet under Niketas
near Calabria
- 975 - Song forces defeat Tang forces
- 981 Second Battle
of Bach Dang - Vietnam defeats Chinese Song forces
- 998 February ? - Venetians under Orseolo defeat Narentan pirates
- 1000 September 9 Swold -
Swedes and Danes defeat Norwegians
- 1004 - Venetians under Pietro Orseolo II defeat Arabs at
Messina
- 1005 - Pisans defeat Arabs at Messina
- 1026 The Helgeå
- Danes under Ulf Jarl defeat Swedes and
Norwegians under Anund Jacob and
Olaf II Haraldsson (Olaf the
Stout) in southern Sweden
- 1043 - Byzantines defeat Russian squadron in the
Bosporus
- 1062 Nissa - Norwegians
under Harald Hardrada defeat Danes in Kattegat
- 1081 Durazzo -
Venetian-Byzantine fleet defeats Normans near Durazzo,
Albania
- 1084 - Normans under Robert Guiscard (20 vessels?)
defeat Venetians or Byzantines in a series of battles near
Albania/Corfu
12th century
13th century
- 1213 May 30 and 31 Damme - English under William Longsword sink
most of fleet of France's King Philip II in the harbor of Damme
- 1217 August 24 Dover
- The "Fight off Sandwich". Fleet of English
Hubert and Burgh defeat French fleet of Eustace the Monk off Dover
.
There were actually 2 battles - this describes the 2nd
- 1241 May 3 Meloria - Pisans under Ansaldo de
Mari defeat Genoese
- 1263 - Venetians under Gilberto Dandolo defeat Genoese in the Bay
of Nauplia
- 1264 - Genoese defeat Venetians
- 1266 Trapani -
Venetians defeat Genoese
- before 1279 - Conrad Lancia
defeats Muslim fleet near Tunisia (details)
- 1279 March 19 Yamen -
Yuan Dynasty defeats Song Dynasty
- 1282 October 11 - Peter de Queralt defeats Angevin fleet
near Reggio di Calabria (details)
- October 14 - Peter de Queralt defeats Angevin fleet near
Nicotera (details)
- 1283 July 8 Malta -
Aragonese-Sicilians under Roger of
Lauria defeat Angevins in Grand Harbour, Malta
- 1284 June 5 Gulf
of Naples - Aragonese-Sicilians under Roger of Lauria defeat
Neapolitans and capture Charles of Salerno (later Charles II of Naples)
- 1285 August? (possibly mid-September) - 11 Catalan
galleys defeat 25 French galleys under Guillaume de Lodève at
Rosas
- September 4 (probably) Les Formigues - Aragonese-Sicilians
under Roger of Lauria defeat French under di Mari and de Orreo near
Barcelona
- 1287 June 23 The
Counts - Aragonese-Sicilians under Roger of Lauria defeat
Angevins near Naples
- 1288 Third Battle
of Bach Dang - Vietnamese defeat Mongols
- 1294 Laiazzo - Genoese
defeat Venetians near Laiazzo
- 1298 September 9 Curzola - Genoese fleet under Lamba
Doria defeats Venetians
under Andrea Dandolo
- 1299 July 4 Cape
Orlando - Angevins under Roger of Lauria defeat Sicilians under
d'Oria off northern Sicily
- 1300 June 14 Ponza -
Angevins under Roger of Lauria defeat Sicilians under d'Oria near
Naples
14th century
15th century
- 1403 October 7 Modon - French under Marshal Boucicaut defeat
Venetians
- 1404-07 - Several battles
- 1416 May 29 - Venetians defeat Turks near
Gelibolu
- August 15 (OS?) Harfleur - English defeat French near
Harfleur
- 1417 - English defeat French and Genoese
- 1419 - Castilians defeat English-Hanseatic fleet at La
Rochelle
- 1431 - Venetians and Florentines under Pietro Loredano and Paolodi Vanni Rucellai defeat Genoans
under Francesco
Spinola
- 1448 San Vincenzo
- Neapolitans defeat Florentines
- 1453 April 12 - Turks attack Byzantine vessels defending Constantinople
- April 20 - Turks fail to prevent Genoese supply ships
reaching Constantinople
- 1457 August - 3 Polish ships defeat Danish-Livonian
fleet
- 1476 August 13 - French defeat Genoese near Cape St
Vincent
- 1499 August 12, 20, 22 and 25 Zonchio - Turks under Daoud Pasha defeat Venetians under Antonio Grimani and are able to capture the
fortress of Lepanto
- 1500 August Modon - Turks under Kemal Reis defeat Venetians
16th century
- 1509 February 3 Diu
- Portugal's Indian viceroy defeats a combined
Egyptian-Gujarat
Sultanate fleet off Gujarat
, India
, and
controls spice trade
- 1510 - Maltese under Prégent de
Bidoux defeat Venetians
- 1512? - Genoese
under Andrea Doria defeat Moors at Algiers
- 1512 August 10 St
Mathieu - English defeat French off Brest; Regent and
Marie la Cordelière sunk
- 1526 - Swedes and Lübeckers defeat
pirate fleet
- 1529 - Ottoman
Turks under Khair-ad-Din (Barbarossa) defeat Spanish
- 1535 early June - 20 Swedes/Danes/Prussians defeat 9
Lübeck ships
- 1535 June? - Swedes/Danes/Prussians defeat 10 Lübeck
ships at Fyen
- 1538 September 28 Preveza - Ottoman Turk fleet under
Khair-ad-Din defeats Spanish-Venetian-Papal fleet
- 1545 July 18 and 19 The
Solent
- French attack English off Portsmouth; Mary
Rose sinks
- August 15 - English fight French off
Portsmouth
- 1549 early August (?) - English defeat French near
Channel Islands
- 1552 Ponza -
Ottoman Turks under Sinan Pasha defeat Genoese under Andrea Doria
off western Italy
- 1555 August 11 - Bloody and inconclusive
melée between French privateers and a Dutch merchant fleet off
Calais
- 1558 - Portuguese fight English and French off
Guinea
- July 13 - English under Count Egmont defeat French under
Marshal de Thermes off Gravelines
- 1560 May 11 Djerba -
Turkish galleys defeat Christian force near Djerba,
Tunisia
Northern Seven Years War (1563-70)
Later 16th century
- 1568 September 23 - Spanish under Martin Enriquez defeat
English under Hawkins at San Juan de Ulúa, Mexico Offsite link
- 1570 - English under Burrough and Hodsdon defeat Danes
in the Baltic Sea
- July 15 - Turkish galliots under Uluch Ali defeat
Maltese galleys under Saint-Clement near Gozo
- 1571 January - Venetians under Marco Querini defeat
Turks near Famagusta, Cyprus
- October 7 Lepanto
- Christian coalition decisively defeats Ottoman
Turks in a large galley fight off western
Greece
- 1572 August 7 and 10 - Venetians under Colonna vs Turks
under Kilitch Ali between Cervi and Cerigo
and near Cape Matapan
- September/October - Several skirmishes between
Spanish/Venetians and Turks
- 1573 April 17 Flushing
- Sea Beggars defeat
Spanish under Sancho
d'Avila
- 1574 January 29 Oosterschelde
- Sea Beggars under Willem
Boisot defeat Spanish under Luis de Resquesens
- May 30 Antwerp - Sea
Beggars under Boisot defeat a Spanish fleet
- June - Swedes capture 3 Lubeckers plus 15
merchantmen
- 1576 August and 1578 Kizugawaguchi - Blockade efforts in
Siege of Ishiyama
Honganji, just off Osaka, Japan
- 1582 July 26 Battle of
Terceira (Battle of Ponta Delgada) - Spanish under Alvaro de
Bazán defeat French, Portuguese, Dutch and English under
Filippo Strozzi in the
Azores
- 1583? Maltese under Avogadro vs Turks
- 1583 August 3 - Venetians defeat Maltese under Avogadro
between Cerigotto and Cape Spada
- 1585 April - Maltese galleys defeat and capture Turkish
sailing ship
- 1586 - English under Edward Wilkinson vs Spanish and
Maltese under Pedro de Gamboa y Leyva at Pantellaria
- 1588 July and August - Defeat
of the Spanish Armada off southern England
- 1589 - English
Armada
- 1591 about June 13 - English vs Spanish under Diego de
la Ribera
- - Spanish repel English near the Azores
- 1592 May 7 Okpo - Korean
navy under Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeat
Japanese
- May 29 Sacheon -
Koreans defeat Japanese
- August 14 Hansan
Island - Korean navy defeats Japanese fleet in the bay of
Hansan island, sinking 59 out of 73 with ironclad turtle ships
- November 1 Busan -
Koreans defeat Japanese
- 1595 about late June - Maltese vs Bizertans (details)
- 1595-96 - Spanish defeat English raiding/invasion
expeditions of the Spanish Main led by Drake and
Hawkins
- 1597 July 15 or August 28 Chilchonryang - Japanese defeat
Koreans
- October 26 Myeongnyang - 13 Korean ships under
Admiral Yi Sun-sin destroys Japanese
fleet of 133 ships
- - Bizertans vs Genoese and Romans
- - Spanish defeat English in the Azores Islands
Expedition
- 1598 December 16 Noryang
Point
- Koreans and Chinese defeat
Japanese
- 1600 December 14 - Dutch vs Spanish at
Manila
Early 17th century
- 1601 December 27 Bantam
- Dutch defeat Portuguese in Bantam Bay
- 1602 October 3 Sluis - Dutch under Jacob van Duivenvoorde defeat Spanish
under Frederik Spinola
- 1603 May 26 Sluis
- Dutch under Joos de
Moor beat back Spanish under Frederik Spinola
- ?? 1603 October - Tuscan galleys defeat
Tunisians
- 1604 October - Tuscans defeat Tunisians (details)
- 1605 - Dutch fleet under Willem Haultain attacks and partly destroys
a Spanish fleet of transport ships near Dover
- 1606 August 17 Cape Rachado - Indecisive action
between a Dutch fleet under Cornelis Matelief de Jonge and a
Portuguese fleet near Malacca
- September 21 Malacca - Dutch under Cornelis
Matelief de Jonge destroy Portuguese ships
- 1607 April 25 Gibraltar
- Dutch under Jacob
van Heemskerk destroy a Spanish fleet
- October 20 - Tuscans under Beauregard defeat Turkish
trade fleet (details)
- 1609 about May - French under Beaulieu vs Tunisians
(details)
- June 29 - Spanish-French raid on La Goulette, Tunisia
(details)
- - Venetians defeat Turks near Paxos (details)
- (late)? - Turks under Khalil defeat French under
Fressinet near Cyprus (details)
- (late)? - Turks vs French under Beaulieu
- 1610 August 21 - Tuscans vs Turks (details)
- October 10 - Tuscans vs Turks (details)
- 1611 August (end)? - Minor action between Danes and
Swedes in Kalmar Sound
- 1612 May 23 or 25 - Sicilian-Neapolitan galley fleet
defeats Tunisians at La Goulette (details)
- 1613 August 29 - Sicilians under de Aragon defeat
Turkish trade fleet (details)
- 1615 January 20-? (Old Style) - English defeat
Portuguese in mainly minor skirmishes
- July 17 and 18 - Spanish vs Dutch (same as
next?)
- - Dutch under Spilbergen defeat Spanish under de Pulgar
near Valdivia, Peru
- 1616 January - Spanish vs ? (details)
- about March? - Spanish under Ribera defeat Tunisians at
La Goulette (details)
- April 29 - Tuscans under Inghirami defeat Turks near
Euboea (details)
- July 14-16 - Spanish under Ribera defeat Turks in the
first regular action between galleys and sailing ships in the
Mediterranean (details)
- July - Spanish versus Dutch (details)
- about October (possible engagement) -
Neapolitans/Sicilian galleys defeat larger Turkish galley
fleet
- 1617 April 13 - Spanish under Ribera vs
Venetians
- June 12 - Minor skirmish between Neapolitans/Sicilians
and Venetians
- Playa Honda
- Dutch defeat Spanish
- November 19 and 20 - Inconclusive battle between
Sicilians and Venetians (details)
- 1618 June 24 - Venice hires Dutch ships and fights
Spanish (details)
- July 2 and 3 - Dutch under Moy
Lambert and Spanish under Vidazabal defeat
Algerines
- December 23-28 - English vs Dutch near Jakarta (details)
- 1619 January 18 and 19 - Maltese vs Algerians near Malta
(details)
- March 1 - English vs Dutch near Jakarta (details)
- May 31 - Dutch defeat French at the mouth of the Vilaine
River
- - English defeat Portuguese
- 1620 May 11 - Venetians under Nani defeat Spanish under
Ribera (details)
- June 26 - Tuscans defeat Bizertans (details)
- - English defeat Portuguese
- 1622 July 13-14 - English and Dutch defeat Portuguese
near Mozambique
- 1622 - English naval bombardment of Algiers
- 1624 October (start) - Tuscan/Papal/Neapolitan force
defeats Algerians near Sardinia (details)
- 1625 January - French Rochellais rebels defeat and
capture French fleet at Blavet
- February 1 and 3 - English and Dutch defeat Portuguese
(details)
- June 26 - Bizertans defeat Maltese near Syracuse, Sicily
(details)
- September 15 - French under Soubise defeat hired Dutch
ships near Rochelle
- 1626? - French with hired English and Dutch ships defeat
Huguenot fleet near Rochelle
- 1626 late - Danes defeat Dunkirkers (details)
- 1627 November 28 Oliwa -
Poles defeat Swedes
- 1628 July 31 - Dutch ships under Pieter Ita attack and capture 2 Spanish treasure
ships
- June 21 - English defeat Venetians/French at Scanderoon
(details)
- September 9 Dutch squadron under Piet Hein attacks and captures
Spanish treasure
fleet
- September 29 - French defeat English near La
Rochelle
- 1629 August 20 - Dutch under Piet Heyn defeat Dunkirkers
off Scotland; Heyn is killed
- September 16 - Swedes defeat Holy Roman Empire near
Wismar (details)
- 1630 September 4-8 - Danes force a retreat of Hanseatic
ships in Elbe River (details)
- 1631 September 12 - Undecided encounter between a Dutch
and a Spanish/Portuguese fleet off Pernambuco (details)
- 1634 about early May - Maltese galleys defeat Turkish
vessels at Zante
- July 19 - Maltese galleys under Valdina defeat
Tripolitans
- - Maltese under Villages defeat Turks
- - Maltese privateers defeat Turkish galleys
- 1635 August 21 - Dunkirk squadron under Jacob Collaart (see Dunkirkers) defeat Dutch guardships and captures
60 fishing trawlers
- August 25 - Dunkirk frigates under Jacob Collaart
defeats Dutch escort capturing 24 fishing trawlers
- about September 25 - Spanish defeat Dutch West India
Company convoy
- 1636 early - Dutch Zeeland squadron under Johan Evertsen defeats Dunkirk fleet under
Jacob Collaart
- 1637 February - 8 Spanish under Miguel de Horna defeat Dutch convoy and
escort near Cape Lizard and capture 17 merchant ships
- 1638 about March 26 - Spanish under Lopez de Hoces defeat and captures Dutch
convoy
- June - Maltese galleys defeat Tripolitan sailing ships
near Calabria
- about July 19 - French defeat Spanish in galley fight
near Genoa
- July 22 - French under de Sourdis destroy Spanish
galleons under Lopez de Hoces at Guetaría (details)
- August 7 - Venetians under Capello defeat Algerians at
Corfu
- 1639 February 19 - Dutch under Maarten Tromp defeat a Dunkirk
fleet under Miguel de
Horna (details)
- September 17-19 Calais - Running fight between
Dutch under Maarten Tromp and Spanish
under D'Oquendo who seeks shelter at
The
Downs
- September 30 Mormugão - Dutch defeat
Portuguese near Goa
- October 31 Battle of the
Downs - Dutch under Tromp defeat Spanish under D'Oquendo in the English Channel
- end December - Spanish under Miguel de Horna defeat
stronger French force
- 1640 January 12-17 Pernambuco - Dutch fleet under Willem Loos defeats Spanish\Portuguese fleet
under Dom Fernando de
Mascarenhas
- June 15 - Dunkerquers defeat Dutch in the Shetland Isles
(details)
- July? - French under Maillé Brézé defeat Spanish under
Don Gomez de Sandoval
- 1641 - French under de Sourdis defeat Spanish
- - Several French vs Spanish
- May 17 and 18 - Spanish defeat French near
Pensacola
- September 1 and 2 ? - Spanish under Pietersen defeat
French and Portuguese
- November 4 - Dutch under Gijssels defeat Spanish and
French off Cape St Vincent
- 1642 end of June, 2 day battle - French under Maillé
Brézé defeat Spanish under Ciudad Real near Barcelona
- October - Portuguese defeat Spanish
- 1643 August - French defeat Spanish
Danish-Swedish War (1643-45)
- 1644 May 16 - Danes defeat Dutch ships which have been
hired to support Sweden (details)
- May 25 - Danes get slightly the better of 33 hired Dutch
ships
- July 1 Colberger
Heide - Danish and Swedish fleets fight an inconclusive battle
off NE Germany
- July 7 - Danes defeat Swedes in small battle (details)
- August 10 - Dutch fleet under Thijsen brushes past
Danish fleet under King Christian IV in Kjoge Bay, Denmark
(details)
- October 13 - Combined Swedish/Dutch fleet badly defeats
Danish fleet near Femern, Germany (details)
Cretan War (1645-69)
- 1644 September 28 - Maltese galleys defeat Turkish
sailing ships near Rhodes; their subsequent stay in Venetian-held
Crete provoked the outbreak of war (details)
- 1645 September 28 or 29 - Combined Christian
fleet tries and fails to retake Canea (Chania
) in Crete,
from the Ottomans
- October 1 - Christians vs Turks near Canea,
Crete
- 1646 May 26 - Venetians defeat Turkish
attempt to break their blockade of the Dardanelles
. (details)
- August 14 - Inconclusive fight between Christians and
the Ottoman fleet anchored at Chania Bay, Crete
- 1647 January 27 - The Ottoman fleet of 45 galleys
attacks the ship of the Venetian admiral Tommaso Morosini. Both
Morosini and the Ottoman admiral, Kara
Musa Pasha, are killed. After suffering significant casualties,
the Turks are driven off by the arrival of the remaining Venetian
fleet.
- August 25 - Inconclusive skirmish between Christians and
Turks
- September 9 - Inconclusive skirmish between Christians
and Turks
- 1649 May 6 - Minor battle between Venetians and
Turks
- May 12 Focchies -
Venetians defeat large Turkish fleet near western
Turkey
- July 15 - Venetians vs Turks near Candia, Crete
(details)
- July 18 - Venetians defeat Turks near Candia (details)
- 1651 July 8 and 10 - Venetians under Mocenigo defeat
Turks (details)
- 1654 April - Maltese privateers defeat Turks near
Rhodes
- May 16 - Turks under Murad defeat Venetians under
Giuseppe Delfino in Dardanelles
(details)
- June 21 - Turks retreat after skirmish with Venetians
west of Milos
- 1655 June 21 - Venetians under Lazaro Mocenigo defeat Turks under Mustapha
in Dardanelles (details)
- 1656 June 26 and 27 - Venetians and Maltese under
Lorenzo Marcello defeat Turks under Chinam Pasha in Dardanelles
(details)
- 1657 May 3 - Venetians defeat Algerines (details)
- May 18 - Venetians under Lazaro Mocenigo defeat Turks
and Algerines at Suazich (details)
- July 17-19 - Venetians, Maltese and Papal forces under
Lazaro Mocenigo defeat Turks in Dardanelles (details)
- 1658 May 19 - Venetians under Contarini defeat Turks between Imbros and the
Dardanelles
- 1659 August 26 (or 27?) - Venetians under Contarini vs
Turks (details)
- 1660 between May 26 and June 12 - Slight skirmish
between Venetians and Turks
- 1661 March (end) - Venetians defeat Turks in minor
skirmish
- May 18 - Venetians defeat Turks in minor
skirmish
- August 27 - Venetians and Maltese defeat Turks near
Milos, Greece (details)
- 1662 September 29 - Venetians defeat Turkish "Alexandria
Caravan" between Kos and Kalymnos, Greece (details)
- 1665 March - French under the Duc de
Beaufort defeat Algerines near La Goulette, Tunisia (details)
- August - French under the Duc de Beaufort defeat
Algerines at Cherchell, Algeria
- - French under d'Escrainville defeat Turks
- 1667 February 25 and 26 - Venetians under Molin defeat Turks and Tunisians north of Crete
(details)
- 1668 March 8 and 9 - Venetians defeat Turks near
Pelagia, Greece (details)
- May 2 - French defeat Turks (details)
- about September - Barbary "Turks" defeat Venetians south
of Crete (details)
- 1669 June - Privateers defeat "Alexandria Caravan"
escort near Rhodes (details)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-74)
Later 17th century
- 1645 September 9 Tamandare - Dutch squadron under
Jan Lichthart destroys a Portuguese
squadron under Jerônimo Serrão de Paiva
at Tamandaré
Brazil
- 1645 - Algerian Barbary pirates attempted an attack on
Edinburgh
, Scotland
- 1646 La Naval de
Manila - Two Spanish galleons with Spanish & Filipino crew
repel a Dutch invasion fleet in 5 separate actions over several
months around the Philippines
- 1646? - French under du Mé
defeat Spanish
- 1647 June 10 Puerto de
Cavite
- Spanish defeat Dutch attack near
Manila
- 1650 July 26 - Minor battle between Parliamentarians and
Royalists/Portuguese near Lisbon
- October 20 - Parliamentarians capture French
frigate
- 1652 July? - French under Vendôme
defeat Spanish
- 1654 March 23 Colombo - Skirmish between Dutch and
Portuguese
- May 2 - Dutch defeat Portuguese near Colombo (details)
- 1655 - English naval bombardment of Algiers
- 1655 April 14 - English under Robert Blake destroy
Barbary ships at Porto Farina, northern Tunisia (details)
- - French under Vendôme defeat Spanish near
Barcelona
- 1657 April Santa Cruz - English under Blake defeat
Spanish ( link)
- September 12 and 13 - Danes and Swedes fight
inconclusively near Moen, Denmark (details)
- 1658 November 8 The
Sound - 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
- 1659 March 30 - Minor battle between Dutch and Danes
against Swedes
- April 30 - Small running battle between Dutch and Danes
against Swedes (details)
- - Dutch/Danes under de Ruyter defeat Swedes
and liberate Nyborg
- 1661 - French naval bombardment of Algiers
- 1669 December 18 (O.S.?) - English Mary Rose vs
7 Algerines (details)
- 1670 August - English/Dutch ships defeat Algerine force
near Gibraltar
- 1671 May - Privateers beat off a force of Turkish
galleys near Egina, Greece
- 1675 February 11 - French under Comte de Vivonne defeat Spanish under
de la Cueva near Lipari Islands,
Italy
- July (possible engagement) - English defeat
Tripolitans
- 1676 January 8 Stromboli - Inconclusive fight between
French under Abraham Duquesne vs
Dutch and Spanish under Michiel de
Ruyter
- January - English defeat Tripolitans
- April 22 Agosta - French
fleet under Duquesne and Dutch/Spanish fleet under de Ruyter fight
to a draw. De Ruyter is mortally wounded
- June 2 Palermo - French
under Comte de Vivonne defeat Dutch/Spanish under De la Cerda and
Den Haen
- May 25 and 26/June 3
and 4 - Dutch/Danish fleet under Niels
Iuel defeat Swedes under Baron
Creutz between Bornholm and Rugen in the Baltic Sea
- June 1/11 Öland -
Dutch/Danish fleet defeats Swedish fleet south of Öland in the
Baltic Sea
- 1677 March 3 Tobago - French under Jean II d'Estrées are repelled by
Dutch under Jacob Binkes (details)
- May 31 and June 1/11 - Danes defeat Swedes between
Femern and Warnemunde, Baltic Sea (details)
- July 1/11 and 2 Kjöge Bay - Danes and Dutch defeat
Swedish fleet
- December Tobago - French under Jean II d'Estrées defeat Dutch under
Jacob Binkes
- 1678 - Undecided action of the isle of
Ouessant
between a Dutch squadron under Evertsen and a French
squadron under
Château-Renault
- 1679 May 3 - Danes vs Swedes
- June 26, June 28, July 2 and July 20 - Series of
skirmishes culminating in a Danish victory over Sweden
- 1681 July 23 - French defeats Tripolitans
- September 30 - Spanish defeat Brandenburgers near Cape
St Vincent (details)
- 1683 - French naval bombardment of Algiers
- 1686 July 12]] - Venetians attacks "Alexandria Caravan"
with its Turkish and Tripolitan escort between Naxos and
Nicaria
- October 4 - Venetians vs Turks near Mitylene,
Greece
- c. 1687/88? - Turks and Algerines, under Mezzo Morto, defeat Venetians
- 1687-1688 - French naval bombardment of
Algiers
- 1688 June 15 - Venetians attacks "Alexandria Caravan"
with its Turkish and Algerian escort east of Naxos,
Greece
- 1689 May 1/11 Battle of
Bantry Bay
- French defeat English off SW
Ireland
- French vs English near Casquets
- 1690 March 26 - Turks and Algerines under Mezzo Morto
defeat Venetians under Valier (details)
- July 10 Beachy
Head
- French defeat Anglo-Dutch
fleet
- - French vs English and Dutch near Madras
- September 8 - Venetians fight the combined fleet of
Turkey, Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis near Mitylene, Greece (details)
- 1692 May 27-June 3 Barfleur and La Hougue - Decisive defeat
of French by English and Dutch in the War of the Grand Alliance
- - French defeat Spanish near Cape
Finisterre
- - French defeat Tripolitans near Malta
- 1693 June Lagos
Bay - French under Tourville capture 50 out of 140
merchantmen
- 1694 June 29 - French under Jean
Bart defeat Dutch under Hidde de
Vries and others (details)
- 1695 February 9 and 19 - Turkish fleet defeats and then
fights Venetians under Zeno (details)
- April 16 - French defeat English (details)
- September 15 and 18 - Venetians under Contarini vs Turks
under Mezzo Morto
- 1696 (mid) - Russians vs Turks near Ochakov, Black
Sea
- June 17 Dogger
Bank
- French defeat Dutch
- - French and English fight in Newfoundland
- - Fight near San Domingo
- August 22 - Venetians under Contarini vs Turks and their
allies under Mezzo Morto near Andros (details)
- 1697 July 6, September 1 and September 20 - Venetians
under Contarini vs Turks in a series of battles in the Aegean Sea
(details)
- 1698 September 20 - Venetians vs Turks, Tripolitans and
Tunisians near Samothrace, Greece (details)
Great Northern War (1700-21)
- 1702 June 26 - Small-ship action between Sweden and
Russia on Lake Ladoga
- September 7 - Small-ship action between Sweden and
Russia on Lake Ladoga
- 1703 August 7 - Small-ship action between Sweden and
Russia on Lake Peipus
- 1704 May 17 - Small-ship action between Sweden and
Russia on Lake Peipus
- 1705 June 26 - Swedish ships attack Russian base of
Kotlin
- 1710 October 4 - Denmark under Gyldenløve defeats Sweden
under Wachtmeister in Kjöge Bay (details)
- 1712 April 11 - Danes under Knoff vs Swedes under
Sjöblad (details)
- July 31 and August 17 - Danes under Sehested fight and
then defeat Swedes under Henck near Rugen (details)
- August 4 - Very minor engagement between Russia and
Sweden
- September 28 - Very minor engagement between Denmark and
Sweden
- 1713 July 22 - Minor engagement between Sweden and
Russia (details)
- 1714 August 6 Gangut
- Russian galleys under Apraksin defeat Swedish
force
- 1715 April 24 - Danes under Gabel defeat Swedes under
Wachtmeister (details)
- 1716 July 8 Dynekilen
- Danes under Tordenskjold defeat Swedes
- 1717 May 14 or 15 - Danish attack on Göteborg is
defeated
- July 19 - Danish attack on Strömstad is
defeated
- 1718 September 17 or 21 - Swedes under King Carl XII
defeat Danes under Paulssen
- 1719 June 4 Osel
Island - Russians defeat Swedes under Wrangel
- July 13 - Danes under Rosenpalm defeat Swedes at
Strömstad
- 1720 August 7 Grengam
- Russian galley fleet under Galitzine defeats Swedish sailing ships under
Sjöblad.
Early 18th century
- 1701 August 17 - Maltese raid on La
Goulette
- 1702 May 29, Battle of Tourville next to Cape de la Hague, north
of Cherbourg
. French battle fleet attacked by the
Anglo-Dutch fleet. French fleet flees to Saint-Malo
. See: Bosscher, (PH. M.)
Oorlogsvaart. In: MGN, deel III, p. 367-368.
- 1702 August 19-24 (OS) - English under Benbow - French
under Ducasse draw (details)
- October 23 Vigo Bay
- Anglo-Dutch fleet defeat French and Spanish and
destroy Spanish treasure fleet
- 1703 May 22 Cap de
la Roque/Bay of Biscay - French squadron attacks large
Anglo-Dutch merchant fleet
- 1704 August 24 Malaga
- English and Dutch under Rooke narrowly defeat
French near Malaga
- 1707 October 21 The
Lizard
- 2 French squadrons under Forbin and
Duguay-Trouin defeat British convoy and escort under Richard
Edwards
- 1709 March 2 - British vs French (details)
- June 25 - Maltese defeat Tripolitans near Cape Santa di
Leuca
- 1710 April 18 - Maltese defeat Algerines
- 1713 April 12 - Maltese defeat Algerines
- - Portuguese defeat Indians near Cheul (details)
- 1716 July 8 - Venetians under Corner fight an
inconclusive battle against Turks under Jannum Koggia east of Corfu
(details)
- 1717 June 12, 13, 16 and 22 - Venetians under Flangini
vs Turks in northern Aegean (details)
- July 19 Matapan -
Venetians and their allies vs Turks in Gulf of Laconia,
Greece
- 1718 - Portuguese defeat Indians near Karwar (details)
- July 20-22 - Venetians vs Turks (details)
- August 11 Cape
Passaro - British under George Byng defeat Spanish near
Sicily
- 1738 June 20, 28 and 29 - Russians vs Turks
- August 9 and 10 - Turks defeat Russians
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48)
- 1741 January 7 and 8 - British vs French in West
Indies
- February 12 - Minor British vs French in Gibraltar
Strait
- March-May Cartagena de Indias - Decisive
Spanish victory against a large British fleet during the War of
Jenkins' Ear
- August 10 Colachel - Raja of Travancore in India defeats
Dutch
naval
force at Colachel
- 1742 May 31 - Swedes retreat after battle with Russians
in Gulf of Finland (details)
- 1744 February 22 Toulon
- Draw between Franco-Spanish and British
fleets south of Toulon
- 1746 June 25 (OS) - British under Edward Peyton vs
French under la Bourdonnais
- 1747 May 14 1st Cape Finisterre -
British under Anson
defeat French under de Jonquières
- 1747/48 - French under Labourdonnais vs British under
Peyton near Negapatam
- 1748 March 7 - British under Cotes defeat
Spanish
- October 12 - British vs Spanish near Havana (details)
Seven Years War (1756-63)
- 1756 May 20 Minorca -
French under la Galissonnière defeat British under John
Byng
- 1757 early - French under Kersaint de Coëtnempren vs
British at San Domingo
- 1758 - Minor French under Duchaffault vs British under
Boscawen near Ushant
- - Minor French under Durevest vs British under Saunders
near Gibraltar Strait
- April 29 Cuddalore - British under Pocock
defeat French under d'Ache
- August 3 Negapatam - British under Pocock
defeat French under d'Ache
- 1759 August 19 Lagos - British under Boscawen defeat
French under de la Clue
- September 10 - Light Swedish force defeats similar
Prussian force near Szczecin
- September 10 Pondicherry - British fight French but
are too damaged to pursue
- November 20 Quiberon
Bay/Cardinaux
- British defeat French near St
Nazaire
- 1760 July 3-8 Restigouche River - British defeat
French relief force
- 1762 - British attack on Spanish-held
Havana
Russo-Turkish War (1768-74)
- 1770 May 27 and 28 - Russians vs Turks near southern
Greece (details)
- June 4 - Minor Russians vs Turks south of Athens
(details)
- July 5-7 Chesma -
Russian fleet defeats and burns Turkish fleet off western
Turkey
- 1772 November 6-8 - Russians defeat Turks west of
Patrai, Greece (details)
- 1773 July 4 - Russians under Kinsbergen vs Turks
(details)
- September 3 - Russians under Kinsbergen vs Turks
(details)
- September? - Russians vs Turks (details)
- 1774 June 20 and July 9/19 - Russians under Tchitchagov
and Seniavin vs Turks (details)
American War of Independence (1776-83)
- 1776 October 11 Valcour
Island
- Benedict
Arnold escapes the British fleet under Guy
Carleton
- 1778 April 19 Frederica Naval Action
- 1779 July 6 Grenada
- end - French vs British under Hyde Parker near Fort
Royal, Martinique
- 1780 January 16 Cape St Vincent - British
under Rodney defeat Spanish under de Langara
- April 17 Martinique - British under
Rodney fail to defeat French under de Guichen
- August 9 Spanish-French fleet under Luis de Córdova y
Córdova captures 55 ship British convoy
- Spanish-French fleet under Luis de Córdova y Córdova
captures 29 ship British convoy
- 1781 April 16 Porto
Praya
- French under Suffren vs
British, in the Cape Verde Islands
- April 19 Fort
Royal
- - Minor French under de Grasse vs British under
Hood
- - Minor French under Destouches vs British under
Arbuthnot
- August 5 (15 NS?) Dogger
Bank
- Draw between Dutch and British
squadrons
- September 5 Chesapeake Bay - French under de
Grasse drive off British under Graves
- December 12 Second
Ushant - British under Kempenfelt capture part of a French
convoy from de Guichen
- 1782 January 25 St
Kitts - British under Hood defeat French under de
Grasse
- February 17 Sadras
- First fierce but indecisive fight between French
under Suffren and British under Hughes near south-east
India
- April 9 and 12 The
Saintes - British under Rodney decisively defeat French under
de Grasse in the West Indies
- April 12 Providien
- 2nd fight between Suffren and Hughes off
India
- April 21 - British defeat French
- July 6 Negapatam
- 3rd fight between Suffren and Hughes off
India
- September 3 Trincomalee
- Hughes fleet damages Suffren's but
withdraws
- October 20 Cape
Spartel - Franco-Spanish fleet under Luis de Córdova y Córdova
fights British fleet under Richard Howe
in indecisive battle. Howe resupplies Gibraltar
- 1783 June 20 Cuddalore
- Suffren prevents Hughes seizing Cuddalore.
Last of the five battles between Suffren and Hughes
Russo-Turkish War (1787-92)
- 1787 August 30 - Russians vs Turks
- September 27, 28 and 30 - Russians vs Turks
- October 15 - Russians defeat Turks
- 1788 June 17, 18, 28 and 29 and July
9 - Russian and Turkish land and sea forces clash near Ochakov
(details)
- July 14/25 Ochakov -
Russia defeats Turkey near Fidonisi
- 1789 June 2-4 - Russians defeat Turks at Sinope
(details)
- 1790 July 19 Kerch
Strait - Slight Russian victory over Turks
- September 8 and 9 Tendra
- Russians defeat Turks
- October 31 - Russians defeat Turks at the Sulina
mouth
- November 17, 18 - Russians defeat Turks at
Tultcha
- November 29 - Russians defeat Turks at Ismail (details)
- November 30, December 1, 2, 4-7 - Russians defeat
Turks
- 1791 July 9 Machin -
Russians defeat Turkish rowing vessels
- August 11 Cape
Kaliakra - Slight Russian victory over Turks in a largely
inconclusive battle near Bulgaria
Russo-Swedish War (1788-90)
The Russian calendar was
eleven days behind the Swedish during the eighteenth century, so
Russian dates are eleven days earlier.
- 1788 July 17 (July 6 OS) Hogland - Bloody engagement between
Swedish and Russian battlefleets. Both sides lose a ship, but
Swedes withdraw
- 1789 July 26 (July 15 OS) Öland – Indecisive action
between the Swedish and Russian battlefleets.
- August 24 (August 15 OS) First Svensksund / Rochensalm –
Russian galley flotilla decisively defeats Swedes
- September 18 (September 7 OS) - Russians defeat Swedes
in small battle near Nyslott (Barezund)
- 1790 May 13 (May 2 OS) Reval - Disastrous Swedish attack on Russian
battlefleet at Reval (now Tallinn).
- May 15 (May 4 OS) Fredrikshamn - Swedish galley flotilla
defeats Russian galley flotilla
- June 3 and 4 (May 23 and 24 OS) - Action off Kronstadt -
Indecisive action between the battlefleets.
- July 3 (June 22 OS) Vyborg Bay – The Swedish battlefleet
and galley flotilla break through the Russian blockade, suffering
heavy losses.
- July 9 (June 28 OS) Second
Svensksund / Rochensalm
- Decisive victory of the Swedish galley
flotilla.
French Revolutionary War (1793-1802)
- 1793 November 6 - French capture HMS Alexander (details)
- November 18 - Short, inconclusive British-French battle
(details)
- 1794 January 22 and 25 - French attack British convoy
(details)
- April 23 - British defeat French frigates (details)
- June 1 The
Glorious First of June - British fleet defeats French fleet in
North Atlantic but French grain convoy makes it through to
Brest
- June 8 - French vs British near Jersey
- August 23 - British defeat French near
Brest
- October 22 - French vs British near
Mauritius
- 1795 March 13 and 14 - British under Hotham vs French
under Martin (details)
- June 8 and 9 - British vs French near Belle
Isle
- June 23 Groix - British
under Hood defeat French under Villaret-Joyeuse off Groix,
France
- July 13 - British vs French (details)
- October 7 - British vs French (details)
- 1797 February 14 Cape St
Vincent
- British under Jervis defeat Spanish near
Gibraltar
- March 26 - Austrian vessels, supported by Venetian
battleship, fight off small French attack (details)
- May 16 - Danish vessels get the better of Tripolitans
near Tripoli, Libya (details)
- October 11 Camperdown - British fleet under
Admiral Duncan defeats Dutch
- 1798 August 1-3 The
Nile
- British under Nelson defeat moored French fleet
under Brueys in Egypt
- October 12 - British defeat French invasion
force off western Ireland (details
)
- October 28 - Minor British vs French
- 1799 August 4 - French attack British convoy (details)
- September 3, 4, 5 and 10 - Minor light skirmishes
between British and Spanish
- 1801 April 5 Copenhagen
- British under Nelson destroy moored Danish ships
off København to prevent France taking them over
- July 6-12 Algeciras -
French defeat initial British assault, British counter-attack and
defeat Franco-Spanish force.
Napoleonic Wars (1803-15)
- 1803 May 23, 24 and 27 - 4 ships take on Tripolitan
gunboat force (details)
- May 31, June 1 - Adams vs Tripolitan
gunboats
- - Duckworth (British) defeats Rochambeau (French) near
Santo Domingo
- 1804 February 15 Pulo
Aura - French attack British convoy
- 1805 about February - French squadron raids British
(details)
- July 4? - French capture British East Indiaman (details)
- 1805 July 4 - 2 Russian ships defeat French gunboat
force (details)
- July 22 Cape
Finisterre - Inconclusive action between British Admiral Calder
and French Admiral Villeneuve
- August 6 - French attack British convoy (details)
- October 21 Trafalgar
- Nelson defeats combined Franco-Spanish fleet
under Admiral Villeneuve, losing his life but gaining control of
the oceans for Britain for the rest of the war
- November 4 - British capture 4 French battleship
survivors from Trafalgar
- 1806 February 6 San
Domingo
- British under Duckworth defeat French under
Leissegues (French) off Santo Domingo
- July 4 - Russians defeat French in Narenta
Channel
- July 26 - British defeat Dutch (details
)
- September 25 - British battleships defeat French frigate
force (details)
- 1807 February 19 - British battleships under Duckworth
burn several Turkish ships in Dardanelles (details)
- May - British vs Turks at mouth of Dardanelles (details)
- May 22, 23 Dardanelles - Russians
under Admiral Seniavin defeat Turks
near Cape Janizary
- July 1 Athos - Russians
under Seniavin defeats Turks in northern Aegean
- August 23 and 31 - Danes defeat British light forces
near Copenhagen (details)
- September 2-7 Copenhagen - British forces
under Admiral Gambier and General Cathcart capture the Danish
fleet
- 1809 April 13-17 - British capture French battleship
near Porto Rico
- late May - HMS
Melpomène vs Danish gunboats
- June 25-27 - British and Sicilians vs French near
Pozzuoli Bay
- June 31 - French attack British convoy (details)
- October 26 and 31 Cette and ? - Southern
France
- November 18 - French frigates defeat
British East Indiamen near Mauritius (details
)
- December 13 - French frigates capture
HMS Junon (details
)
- 1810 July 3 - French frigate force defeats British East
Indiamen in Mozambique Channel (details)
- August 26 Grand Port
- French defeat British at Vieux Grand
Port, Mauritius
- August 31 - British vs French near Toulon
- 1811 March 13 Lissa
- British frigates under Hoste defeat larger
Franco-Venetian squadron under Dubordieu off Lissa (Vis) in the
Adriatic
- November 29 - Britain captures French frigate (details)
- 1812 February 22 - Britain captures French battleship
Rivoli (details)
- July 12 Lyngør -
British sink last Danish frigate
- 1813 November 5 - Skirmish between British and French
near Toulon (details)
Independence wars
- 1811 March 2 - Spanish defeat Argentines under Juan B.
Azopardo at San Nicolás on the Paraná River
- 1814 March 11 - Argentines under William Brown attack
Spanish under Romerate (details)
- May 14, 16 and 17 - Argentines under William Brown
defeat Spanish (details)
- 1823 May 4 - Brazilians under Cochrane vs Portuguese
(details)
- July 2, 4 and 6 - Brazilians under Cochrane vs
Portuguese
- July 24 Lake
Maracaibo - Republican naval forces of Venezuela vs Spanish
Empire fleet in Lake Maracaibo that includes siege of Defensive
Castles in Zapara, San Fernando and San Carlos islands
- 1826 February 9 - Argentinians vs Brazilians
- Punta
Collares
- June 11 Los Posos -
11 Argentine vessels under William Brown defeat 31 Brazilian
vessels near Buenos Aires
- 1827 February 9 Juncal
- 15 Argentines under Brown defeat 17 Brazilians
under Pereira
- February 24 - Argentines under Brown vs Brazilians near
Quilmes
- April 6 and 7 Monte
Santiago - Brazilians defeat Argentines under William
Brown
War of 1812
Greek War of Independence
- 1821 March 4 - Greeks vs Turks north-west of
Zakynthos
- June 5, 6 and 8 - Greeks defeat Turks
- August 10-c. 13 - Skirmishes
- October 1 - Skirmish
- 1822 March 4
- May 31
- June 18-19 - Greek fireships under Constantine Kanaris blow up the flagship
of Ottoman admiral Kara Ali Pasha
- 1823 September 27 - Greeks vs Turks west of
Lemnos
- October 23 - Greeks vs Turks near
Pondikonisi
- 1824 August 11, 12, 13, 16, 17 and c. 26 - Various
skirmishes between Greeks and Turks/Egyptians/Tunesians
- September 1 - First Budrum - Greeks vs Turks and
Egyptians
- September 9 - Second Budrum
- September 22 - Greeks vs Egyptians near
Nikaria
- September 29
- November 12 and 13 - Greeks vs Turks and Egyptians near
Spinalonga
- 1825 April 29
- May 26
- June 1 - Greeks defeat Turks between Euboea and
Andros
- June 14 and 15 - Greeks defeat Turks and Egyptians near
Suda Bay
- June 28 and 29 - Greeks vs Turks and Egyptians south of
Cerigo
- August 3 - Greeks defeat Turks near
Missolonghi
- November 14 - Greeks under Miaoulis vs
Turks/Egyptians/Algerines/Tripolitans near Navarin
- November 25, 26, 29, 30 and December 6 and 7 - Greeks vs Turks (and allies?)
near Missolonghi
- 1826 January 22 and 28 - Greeks vs Turks
- April 15
- July 27 and 28 - Greeks vs Turks near Samos
- September 10 and 11 - Greeks vs Turks near
Mitylene
- October 7 (6?) - Greeks vs Turks in Aegean Sea
(?)
- 1827 September 29 - Greeks vs Turks in Salona
Bay
- October 20 Navarino
- British/French/Russian squadrons, under Admirals
Codrington, de Rigny, and Geiden, destroy Turkish/Egyptian/Tunisian
fleet of Tahir Pasha off south-west
Greece
- 1828 January 31 - British and French defeat Greek
pirates at Grambusa
Later 19th century
- 1833 July 5 Cape St Vincent -
Portuguese fleet under British officer Sir Charles Napier defeats and
captures fleet of Portuguese usurper Don
Miguel
- 1842 - Argentinians under William Brown defeat
Uruguayans
- 1843 April 30 - Texans under Edwin Ward Moore draws with
Mexicans under Thomas Marin near Campeche
- Texans under Moore destroy Mexican fleet
- 1845 November 20 Obligado
- British/French ships force passage of Parana
River
- 1849 May 3 - Schleswig-Holstein vs Denmark near
Kiel
- May 11 - Schleswig-Holstein vs Denmark near
Bulk
- 1853 October 30 Sinop -
Russian battleships defeat Turkish frigates at Sinope,
Turkey
- 1854 August & September - British-French attack on
Petropavlovsk (details)
- 1862 March 8 and 9 Hampton Roads - First battle between
ironclad warships
- 1864 February Eckernfjorde - Danish ships defeated
by Prussia
- March 17 Jasmund -
Prussians vs Danes
- May 9 Helgoland -
Danish fleet defeats Prussian-Austrian fleet in the North
Sea
- 1865 June 11 Riachuelo - Brazilian fleet defeats
Paraguayan fleet in Paraná river
- 1866 February 7 Abtao -
Spain vs Peru/Chile
- May 2 Callao
- July 20 Lissa
- Austrians under Admiral von Tegetthoff rams and
drives off superior Italian fleet under Persano
- 1869 May 4-10 Hakodate
- 1879 May 21 Iquique - During the War of the Pacific
- 1884 August 23 Foochow - Small French squadron
annihilates Chinese force at Foochow (Fuzhou
)
- 1885 February 13 Raid on
Shipu - French attack Chinese ships
- 1893-94 Brazilian Civil War [9760]
- 1894 July 25 Feng-tao - Japanese defeat Chinese
- September 17 Yalu
River - Japanese defeat Chinese off Korea
- 1898 May 1 Manila Bay
Early 20th century
- 1904 February 9 Chemulpo
- scuttled
- February 9 Port Arthur
- August 10 Yellow
Sea
- Minor Japanese victory over
Russia
- August 14 Japanese
Sea
- Minor Japanese victory over
Russia
- October 4-5 Dogger Bank incident
- Russian fleet fires on British trawlers that have
been mistaken for Japanese torpedo-boats
- 1905 May 27-28 Tsushima
- Japanese defeat Russians in large fleet battle
between Korea and Japan
- 1912 December 3 Elli
- Greeks defeat Ottoman fleet
- 1913 January 18 Lemnos - Greeks defeat Ottoman
fleet
World War I (1914-18)
Between the World Wars (1919-1939)
World War II (1939-45)
Later 20th century
21st century
- 2002 - 2nd
Battle of the Western Sea A South Korean naval patrol
encounters North Korean intruders and force them to
withdraw.
- 2006 - May 11 - The Sri Lankan Navy and LTTE Sea Tigers
clash, leaving 18 SLN personnel and 4-30 Tigers dead
- 2008 - August 9 Russian Black Sea Fleet defeats Georgian
Navy off Abkhazia(details)
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Alvaro de Bazán wins a second battle at the Azores
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Hollare defeats Spanish invasion fleet
- English under Robert Blake fire on Maarten Tromp's Dutch fleet off Dover without
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- Michiel de
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- English under Blake beat back Dutch under
de
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- Dutch under Tromp defeat English under
Blake
- Tromp, outnumbered, loses nine men-of-war and
about 25 merchantmen to an English fleet under Blake
- English defeat Dutch
- English fleet under James Stuart, Duke of York badly defeat
Dutch fleet under Jacob van
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- Dutch under de Ruyter defeats English fleet
commanded by Albermarle and Prince Rupert of the
Rhine
- English under Albemarle
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Rhine defeat a Dutch fleet under de Ruyter
- British under Hawke
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- British under Keppel with 30 ships of
the line fight inconclusive action against French under d'Orvilliers with 28
ships
- US squadron under Thomas Macdonough defeats British under
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. German mine-laying cruiser
Albatross sunk and cruisers Roon and Prinz
Adalbert damaged.
- during the Spanish Civil
War
- British fleet attacks French fleet in harbour
in Algeria
- British fleet attacks Italian
fleet
- HMAS
Sydney sinks Italian cruiser Bartolomeo
Colleoni off Crete
- British air attack on Italians anchored at
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Harbor
- French defeat Siamese
- British fleet defeats Italian fleet notably
in night action
- US fleet sinks four Japanese carriers in
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- Japanese destroy a US cruiser
force
- four days and nights of
fighting
- USS Chicago lost
- British ships sink Scharnhorst off
northern Norway
- Gigantic battle consisting of four main actions -
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Sea
, Surigao Straits
, off Samar
and Cape
Engano
, in Bay
of Bengal
during the
Indo-Pakistan War of
1971. The Indian Navy claims that the submarine was sunk
by two depth charges from the destroyer
INS Rajput. Pakistan however has
maintained that PNS Ghazi sank when the mines it was
laying were accidentally detonated.
sunk. (first sinking by a nuclear-powered
submarine in war, one of 2 and last submarine kills since World War
II).
, killing more than 60.
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