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Battle between the English frigate Shannon and the American frigate Chesapeake , painted in 1836 by
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and depicting the
capture of USS Chesapeake .
A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding
submarine engagements ; it is called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions.
War of the Austrian Succession
1743, June 20 –
HMS Centurion captures the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de la Covadonga
1746, 21 January –
HMS Granado captures the French privateer Marianne
1761, 1 January –
HMS Trent captures the French merchant frigate Bien Aimé .
American Revolutionary War
1776, July 27 –
USS Reprisal and
HMS Shark have an inconclusive engagement
1777, 12 July – British merchantman Pole repulses the privateer
American Tartar
1778, April 24 –
USS Ranger captures
HMS Drake (
details )
1778, December – the Bristol privateer
Tartar has an inconclusive engagement with a French frigate
1779, March – the Bristol privateer
Tartar has an inconclusive engagement with an American privateer
1779, May 7 –
USS Providence captures
HMS Diligent
1779, September 7 –
Molly repels an American privateer
1779, September 10 –
USS Morris defeats HMS West Florida in the
Battle of Lake Pontchartrain .
1779, September 14 –
HMS Pearl defeats the Spanish frigate
Santa Mónica . (
details )
1779, October 29 – the
West Indiaman
Mentor exchanges fire with a French frigate; the frigate withdraws
1779, November 11 –
HMS Tartar captures the Spanish frigate
Santa Margarita . (
details )
1780, June 1 –
USS Trumbull engages the British privateer Watt ; both ships withdraw
1780, August 10 –
HMS Flora defeats the French ship Nymphe in the first engagement thought to involve the
carronade .(
details )
1780, September 9 –
HMS Keppel has an inconclusive, three-hour engagement with
USS Saratoga
1781, January 9 – The sloop
USS Saratoga captures the letter-of-marque
Tonyn
1781, March 7 – Liverpool privateer
Woolton captures French merchantman Sartine
1781, March 23 – British privateer
Tarleton , of 14 guns, captures American letter of marque Tom Lee , of 12 guns.
1781, May 1 –
HMS Canada captures the Spanish frigate Santa Leocadia . (
details )
1781, September 6 – American privateer
Congress captures the British sloop
HMS Savage . (
details )
1781, October 10 – the British privateer
Goodrich has an inconclusive engagement with the American
letter of marque St James
1781, late December – French privateer
Terror of England captures and releases the letter of marque
Molly
1782, February 28 –
French frigate Bellone captures
HMS Chaser
1782, April 6 – American privateer Tartar captures
HMS Jane
1782, April 8 – Pennsylvania privateer Hyder Ally captures HMS General Monk . (
details )
1782, 9 August –
HMS Duc de Chartres captures the French brig
Aigle
1782, August 12 – Frigate
HMS Coventry inconclusively engages the French frigate
Bellone
1782, October 7 – The American privateer Buccaneer captures the British merchant ship
Chambers
1782, December 6 –
HMS Ruby defeats the
French ship Solitaire . (
details )
1783, January 20 –
HMS Resolution captures the Dutch privateer Flushinger
1783, January 22 –
HMS Hussar captures the French frigate Sybille . (
details )
French Revolutionary Wars
1793, May 13 –
HMS Iris and
Citoyenne Française conduct an inconclusive but sanguinary engagement
1793, June 18 –
HMS Nymphe captures the
Cléopâtre (
details )
1793, September 3 – French frigate
Citoyen captures and ransoms the
Guineaman Courier .
1793, December 1 – The British
packet ship
Antelope captures the French privateer Atlante .
1794, May 29 –
HMS Carysfort recaptures
HMS Castor (
details )
1794, July 28 – French privateer Guillotine captures merchant vessel
Sandown
1794, September 5 – Merchantmen
Esther repulses
Républicaine
1794, September 25 – Merchantman
Bolton repulses a French privateer
1794, September – Enslaving ship
Duke of Buccleugh repels attack by French privateer Pervie
1795 – The enslaving ship
Æolus repels an attack by a French privateer
1795, January 4 –
HMS Blanche captures
Pique
1795, March 13 –
HMS Lively captures the French frigate
Tourterelle
1795, October 30 – The enslaving ship
Lord Stanley repels an attack by a French 12-gun schooner privateer
1796, January – A French privateer captures the enslaving ship
Ranger
1796, September – The enslaving ship
Bud repels an attack by a French privateer
1796, November 20 – Merchantman
Wilding engages a French privateer that blows up during the engagement
1796, May 25 –
HMS Suffisante captures the privateer Revanche
1796, June 6 –
HMS Unicorn captures
French frigate Tribune
1796, October 8 & 9 – Merchant ship
Backhouse repels attack by French privateer
1796, November 28 – The enslaving ship
Tarleton repels two different French privateers on the same day, each engagement representing a single-ship action
1797, 29 January – French privateer Jeune Emilie captures the British merchant vessel
Battalion
1797, March 13 –
HMS Viper captures Nuestra Señora de la Piedad .
1797, June 1 – The French privateer
Oiseau captures the British
slave ship
Britannia
1797, August 15 –
HMS Alexander captures French privateer Coq
1797, August 29 – A French privateer captures the merchantman
Ranger
1797, October –
HMS Alexander captures French privateer Epicharis
1797, October – Merchant ship
Backhouse repels attack by French privateer
1797, December 19 –
Slave ship
Eliza blows up while engaging a French privateer
1797, December 22 –
HMS Phoebe captures the
French frigate Néréide
1797, December 27 –
HMS Caroline captures the Spanish ship St Raphael
1798, January – 11
HMS Racoon captures the French privateer Policrate
1798, April 2 –
HMS Mars captures the French ship
Hercule
1798, April 17 –
HMS Recovery captures the French privateer Revanche
1798, July 4 – French brig
Lodi in an inconclusive engagement with the English privateer brig Acquila (probably Eagle )
1798, June 21 – His Majesty's packet ship Princess Royal repels the French privateer Avanture .(
details )
1798, August 7 –
HMS Espoir captures the Genoese pirate Liguria
1798, September 18 – A French privateer captures the
West Indiaman
Agreeable
1798, September 27 – The French privateer President Parker captures the
Guineaman
Bud
1798, October 20 – HMS Racoon captures the French privateer Vigilante
1798, December 12 –
HMS Perdrix captures the French privateer L'Armée d' Italie
1798, February 24 – French frigate
Forte captures the
East Indiaman
Osterley , but then allows her to proceed.
1798, March 1 –
HMS Sybille captures French frigate
Forte .
1799, February 25 – French privateer Democrat captures merchantman
Cicero
1799, March 18 –
HM hired brig Telegraph captures French privateer Hirondelle
1799, April 13 –
HMS Amaranthe captures the French letter of marque Vengeur .
1799, November 23 –
Hired cutter Courier captures French privateer Guerrier
1799, November 26 – Merchant ship
Barton repels attack by a French privateer
1799, December 2 – HMS Racoon captures French privateer Intrepide
1799, December 2 – the British merchantman
Achilles captures the French privateer corvette Entreprenante
1799, December 26 – HMS Viper captures the French privateer Furet
1800, March 5 –
HMS Phoebe captures the privateer
Heureux
1800, March 31 – French privateer
Minerve captures the United States
letter of marque Minerva
1800, August 20 –
HMS Seine captures the French ship
Vengeance
1800, October 7 – French
privateer Confiance captures British
East Indiaman
Kent
1800, October 8 –
HMS Gipsy captures the French privateer Quidproquo
1800, October – American merchant ship Rebecca repels French privateer
Malartic
1800, November 11 –
East Indiaman
Phoenix captures French privateer Malartic .
1800, November 13 –
HMS Milbrook defeats and drives off the French privateer Bellone
1800, November 13 –
HMS Albatross captures the privateer brig
Adèle
1800, November 22 -
HCS Intrepid repels a French privateer off Muscat
1801, January 17 – The French privateer
Mon Oncle Thomas captures the
Guineaman
Leander
1801, February 19 –
HMS Phoebe captures the
French frigate Africaine (
details )
1801, March 5 – French privateer Gironde captures the merchantman
Bolton
1801, March 23 –
HMS Albatross captures the French privateer
Gloire
1801, April – British merchantman
Union Island repels a Spanish privateer
1801, May – French privateer captures the British merchantman
Union Island
1801, May 6 –
HMS Speedy captures Spanish xebec frigate
El Gamo (
Details )*
1801, June 14 – Liverpool privateer
General Keppel repels French privateer Mouche
1801, August 18 –
HMS Guachapin captures Spanish letter of marque Theresa
1801, September 25 –
HMS Pickle has an inconclusive engagement with a privateer flying the Spanish colors off
Hispaniola .
1801, November 20 – A Spanish frigate of 44 guns captures the Liverpool privateer General Keppel
1803, May 18 –
HMS Doris captures the
French lugger Affronteur on the first day of the war.
1803, July 7 – French privateer
Blonde captures the British privateer
Young Nicholas
1803, July 16 –
HMS Racoon captures French brig-corvette
Lodi .
1803, August 13 – French privateer
Bellone captures the
East Indiaman
Lord Nelson
1803, August 17 – HMS Racoon destroys French naval brig Mutine .
1803, August 27 –
HMS Seagull recaptures the
East Indiaman
Lord Nelson
1803, October 15 – The British
slave ship
Tamer captures the French slave ship Braave
1803 –
Guineaman
Bedford repels an attack by a French privateer
1804, January 24 –
Queen Charlotte repels an attack by a French privateer
1804, February 5 –
HMS Eclair engages the 22-gun French privateer Grande Decide .
1804, March 21 – French privateer Blonde captures and sinks
HMS Wolverine .
1804, March 9 – French privateer Grande Decide captures British merchantman
Caldicot Castle
1804, March 25 or 28 –
HMS Hippomenes captures French privateer
Egyptienne
1804, April – A French privateer captures the
slave ship
Sarah and takes her and her cargo of slaves into Guadeloupe
1804, May 12 – A French privateer captures the slave ship
Angola
1804, June 21 –
HMS Hippomenes unsuccessfully engages the Guadeloupe privateer Buonaparte .
1804, July 15 – French privateer Dame Ambert captures
HMS Lilly
1804, July 31 –
HMS Tartar captures French privateer Hirondelle
1804, August 4 – French privateer
General Augereau captures the
West Indiaman
William Heathcote
1804, August 14 –
French frigate Poursuivante captures English merchantman
Juno
1804, August 5 – Merchantman
Britannia repels attack by French privateer
General Ernouf
1804, January 26 – Merchantman
Scarborough repels attack by a French privateer
1804, September 12 –
Policy captures Dutch merchantman Swift
1804, December 27 –
Slave ship
Lord Nelson repels an attack by a French privateer
1804, late – Slave ship
Thetis repels an attack by a French privateer
1805, February – the whaler
Iris unsuccessfully attacks a Batavian vessel
1805, February 2 – Slave ship
Elizabeth repels an attack by a French privateer
1805, February 8 –
HMS Curieux captures French privateer Dame Ernouf
1805, February 13 –
HMS San Fiorenzo captures
French frigate Psyche
1805, March 10 – Private ship of war
Kitty captures the Spanish private ship of war Felicity /Felicidad
1805, March 20 – French privateer
Général Ernouf explodes during an engagement with
HMS Renard
1805, May 16 – The French privateer Hirondelle captures
Queen Charlotte
1805, July 19 –
French frigate Topaze captures
HMS Blanche
1805, August 10 –
HMS Phoenix captures
Didon
1805, August 16 –
HMS Raisonable vs the
French frigate Topaze
1805, October 13 – Spanish merchantman Nuestra Senora de Isiar (alias Joaquina ), captures British privateer
Antelope
1805, October 20 – British privateer
Harmony fails to capture a Spanish privateer brig
1805, November –
HMS Wolverine vs
HMS Amethyst
1805, November 4 – French privateer Creole captures
slaver and merchantman
Esther
1805, November 28 – Inconclusive engagement between the French privateer
Bellone and the
East Indiaman
Admiral Gardner
1805, November 30 – a French privateer captures the
slave ship
Lancaster
1806, January 23 – French privateer captures and sinks
HMS Unique
1806, February 15 –
HMS Grenada captures the French
letter of marque Princess Murat
1806, February – French privateer
Hebe captures British merchantman
Shipley
1806, March 3–4 –
French brig Observateur vs. an unknown British
post ship
1806, May 11 – French ship Abeille captures
HMS Alacrity
1806, May 14 –
HMS Pallas vs French Minerve
1806, May 25 – Merchant ship
Barton repels attack by French privateer Fairey
1806, June 21 –
French frigate Piémontaise captures the
East Indiaman
Warren Hastings at
26°13′S 56°45′W / 26.217°S 56.750°W / -26.217; -56.750
1806, July 19 –
HMS Blanche captures French
Guerrière
1806, August 2 – The fireship
HMS Phosphorus repels an attack by the French privateer lugger Elize
1806, October 25 – Spanish privateer
mistico Generalísimo captures
HM gunboat Hannah
1806, October 26 –
HMS Pitt captures the French privateer Superbe
1806, December 29 –
HMS Spitfire captures French privateer Deux Frères
1807, January 3 –
Pickle captures the French privateer Favorite
1807, March 14 – French privateer
Alerte captures merchantman
Highlander
1807, April 25 – French privateer Dame Villaret captures
Wanstead
1807, August 19 –
HMS Comus captures the Danish frigate
Fredericksvaern .
1807, September 9 – A French privateer captures the British
slave ship
Lucy
1807, October 1 – British
packet ship
Windsor Castle captures the French privateer Jeune Richard . (
details )
1807, October 17 –
HMS Superieure captures the French privateer schooner
Tape a L’Oeil .
1807, December 3 –
HMS Curieux has an inconclusive engagement with French privateer
Revanche .
1808, March 2 –
HMS Sappho captures Danish privateer Admiral Yawl
1808, March 6–8 –
HMS San Fiorenzo captures
French frigate Piémontaise
1808, March 7 – A French privateer captures the
slave ship
Robert
1808, March 14 –
HDMS Lougen engages in an inconclusive action with
HMS Childers
1808, May 11 and 12 –
HMS Wizard vs French 16-gun brig of war
Requin , later captured by
HMS Volage
1808, June 24 –
HMS Salsette captures the
Russian cutter Opyt
1808, July 5 and 6 –
HMS Seahorse captures Turkish frigate Badere Zaffer
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1808, July 16&17 –
Active repelled a Spanish and a French privateer in two separate single-ship actions.
1808, August 11 –
HMS Comet captures French corvette
Sylphe
1808, September 6 –
HMS Recruit vs French corvette Diligente
1808, September 29 – French navy corvette
Départment-des-Landes captures
HMS Maria
1808, October 3 –
French brig Palinure captures
HMS Carnation
1809, August 7 – The Liverpool merchantman
Lascelles repels an attack by a French privateer
1809, late – The Liverpool merchantman
Agreeable repels an attack by a French privateer
1810, January 11 –
HMS Scorpion captures French brig
Oreste
1810, 10 February –
HMS Thistle captures the Dutch naval vessel
Havik
1810, August 10 – His Majesty's
Hired armed cutter Queen Charlotte drives off a substantially larger and more heavily armed French vessel.
1810, August 22 – the British
letter of marque merchantman
William Ashton repels an attack by a French privateer
1810, October 14 –
HMS Briseis captures the French privateer schooner Sans Souci
1810, November 1 – The French privateer
Spéculateur captures the merchant ship
Leander
1811, early –
HMS Gleaner captures an Ottoman
polacca off
Samos
1811, September 11 –
HMS Diana captures the Dutch brig Zephyr off
Manado
1811, October 29 – The French privateer Epervier captured the
packet
Chesterfield off Guernsey
1812, February 22 –
HMS Victorious captures
French ship Rivoli in
Battle of Pirano
1812, July 21 –
HMS Sealark captures the French privateer Ville de Caen
1812, December 1 – French privateer Sans Souci captures the South Seas whaler
Frederick
1812, December 18 –
HMS Spy repels an attack by a French privateer
1812, December 29 –
HMS Royalist captures the French privateer lugger Rusé
1813, February 7 –
HMS Amelia and the French frigate
Aréthuse engage in an inconclusive but sanguinary four-hour night battle
1813, September 10 – French privateer cutter
Renard destroys the schooner
HMS Alphea
1813, October 9 –
HMS Thunder captures the French privateer
Neptune
1814, January 6 – the
West Indiaman
Cambridge repels an attack by a Carthaginian privateer just outside
Havana
1814, March 27 –
HMS Hebrus captures
French frigate Étoile
1815, May 30 –
HMS Rivoli captures the French frigate
Melpomène off
Naples .
HMS Leopard (right) fires upon USS Chesapeake during the
Chesapeake–Leopard affair .
1807, June 22
Chesapeake–Leopard affair –
HMS Leopard boards
USS Chesapeake
1811, May 16
Little Belt affair –
USS President fires on
HMS Little Belt
1812, June 18 –
USS Essex captures
HMS Alert
1812, July – the American privateer Matilda captures the British merchantman Ranger
1812, August 1 – the American privateer Yankee captures and burns the British merchantman
Royal Bounty
1812, August 19 –
USS Constitution defeats
HMS Guerriere
1812, August 22 – HMS Barbados defeats US Revenue Cutter James Madison
1812, September 8 – French privateer brig
Diligent (or Diligente or Diligence ) captures the schooner
HMS Laura
1812, September 16 – American privateer
Rossie captures the
packet
Princess Amelia
1812, October 18 –
USS Wasp defeats
HMS Frolic
1812, October 18 –
HMS Poictiers defeats
USS Wasp
1812, October 25 –
USS United States captures
HMS Macedonian
1812, November 2 – British letter-of-marque
Caledonia repels US privateer Retaliation
1812, November 21 – Merchantman
John Tobin repels attack by American privateer brig Alfred
1812, November 22 –
HMS Southampton captures
USS Vixen
1812, December 11 – American
privateer Saratoga captures the British
letter of marque
Rachel in the
Battle of La Guaira
1812, December 29 –
USS Constitution destroys
HMS Java
1812, December – British merchantman
Ramoncita repels attack by privateer Alexander , of Salem
1813, January 17 –
HMS Narcissus captures
USS Viper
1813, January 1 – The
Falmouth
packet
Duke of Montrose repels an attack by an American privateer
1813, January 25 – The American privateer
Dolphin captures the merchantman
Hebe
1813, February 24 –
USS Hornet
defeats
HMS Peacock
1813, March 11 –
HMS Coquette and the American privateer
General Armstrong have an inconclusive engagement
1813, March 22 – The British letter of marque
Lion captures the American privateer Matilda
1813, April – The American letter of marque
Ned captures the British armed merchantman Malvina
1813, April 14 – The American privateer
Anaconda captures, plunders, and releases the
Falmouth
Post Office Packet Service 's
Express Packet
1813, April 13 – The American privateer Yorktown captures the Falmouth packet
Ann
1813, May 23 –
HMS Highflyer vs. Virginia privateer schooner Roger
1813, May 23 – The American privateer
Young Teazer captures the Falmouth packet
Ann
1813, May 28 –
USS Georgiana captures the
whaler
Hector
1813, May 30 – The United States privateer Yankee captures the British merchant vessel
Thames
1813, June 1 –
HMS Shannon captures
USS Chesapeake in the
Battle of Boston Harbor
1813, June 9 – The
Falmouth
Post Office Packet Service 's
Duke of Montrose repels an attack by an American privateer
1813, June 24 – American privateer Yorktown captures
Manchester
1813, August 5 – Privateer
Decatur
captures
HMS Dominica
1813, August 14 –
HMS Pelican captures
USS Argus
1813, September 5 –
USS Enterprise captures
HMS Boxer
1813, September 23 –
USS President captures
HMS Highflyer
1813, October 22 – US Revenue Cutter Vigilant defeats Canadian privateer Dart
1813, December 14 –
Sir William Bensley repels an attack by a 20-gun American privateer schooner
1813, December 25 –
HMS Belvidera captures
USS Vixen II
1814, January 11 – British merchantman
Hibernia drives off the American privateer Comet
1814, February –
HMS Epervier captures American privateer-brig Alfred
1814, February 14 –
USS Constitution destroys
HMS Pictou
1814, March 14 –
Hannah repels an attack by the American privateer Jacob Johns
1814, March 28 –
HMS Phoebe captures
USS Essex in the
Battle of Valparaiso
1814, April 19 – The American
privateer
General Armstrong captures the British letter-of-marque
Fanny
1814, April 20 –
HMS Shelburne , with
HMS Orpheus approaching, captures
USS Frolic
1814, April 29 –
USS Peacock
captures
HMS Epervier
1814, May 1 – Falmouth packet
Hinchinbrooke repels attack by American privateer
Grand Turk
1814, June 22 –
HMS Leander captures
USS Rattlesnake
1814, June 28 –
USS Wasp captures
HMS Reindeer
1814, July 12 – American privateer Syren captures
HMS Landrail
1814, July 12 –
HMS Medway captures
USS Syren
1814, August 17 – The transport
Atlas repels an attack by the U.S. privateer York
1814, September 1 –
USS Wasp sinks
HMS Avon
1814, October – The packet ship
Grace repelled an attach by a U.S. privateer
1814, October 11 –
HMS Dispatch defeats the US Revenue Cutter Eagle
1814, October 11 – American privateer
Prince de Neufchatel resists
HMS Endymion
1814, December 20 –
HMS Cockchafer captures the American
letter of marque Java
1815, January 15 –
HMS Endymion defeats
USS President
1815, January 28 – American privateer
Surprise captures the British merchantman Star
1815, February 9 – American privateer Kemp captures the
Post Office Packet Service 's packet
Lady Mary Pelham
1815, February 11 – Post-office
packet ship
Walsingham repels an American privateer
1815, March 8 –
HMS Barbadoes captures the American privateer Avon
1815, March 15 – American privateer Roger captures the British packet ship
Windsor Castle
1815, March 23 –
USS Hornet captures
HMS Penguin
1815, April 27 –
USS Hornet escapes after mistakenly engaging
HMS Cornwallis .
1815, June 15 –
USS Peacock captures Nautilus , a brig of the
Bombay Marine of the
East India Company
Argentine War of Independence
1825, January 25 –
Buenos Aires privateer Tupac Amaru (ex-US Regent ) captures the Spanish merchantman
Triton
Suppression of the slave trade
1826, March 20 – Nettuno , a Brazilian slave ship and prize to
HMS Esk , repels the pirate brig Caroline
1828, April 2 –
HMS Black Joke captures Providentia
1828, May 1 – HMS Black Joke captures Presidenté
1829, February 1 – HMS Black Joke captures Almirante
1829, June 5 –
HMS Pickle captures Voladora
1829, June 26 –
HMS Monkey captures Midas
1830, September 7 –
HMS Primrose captures Veloz Passagera (
details )
1832, June 3 –
HMS Speedwell captures the slaver Aquila off
Cuba
1837, February 5 – Chilean brig
Aquiles , which kept the port of
Callao blocked, attacked the Confederate schooner Yanacocha and forced her to return to her anchorage.
1838, January 18 – Chilean corvette Libertad captured the Confederate corvette Confederación on the coast of Callao.
1853, November 17 – Russian steam frigate Vladimir captures Turkish/Egyptian steam frigate
Pervaz Bahri in the Black Sea
Single-ship action between the
German
gunboat
Meteor and the
French
aviso
Bouvet at the
Battle of Havana .
Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878
1877, July 23 – Ottoman central battery ironclad
Feth-i Bülend duels inconclusively with Russian auxiliary cruiser Vesta in the Black Sea.
1898, April 25 – Spanish gunboat Ligera repulses an attack by American torpedo boat
USS Foote (
details )
1902, February 7 – Rebel auxiliary cruiser Libertador sinks Venezuelan gunboat General Crespo .
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1914, August 4 - British light cruiser
HMS Bristol indecisively engages German light cruiser
SMS Karlsruhe
1914, August 26 – British cruiser
Highflyer defeats German auxiliary cruiser
SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in the
Battle of Río de Oro
1914, September 9 – British gunboat
HMS Dwarf engages German armed yacht Herzogin Elisabeth in an action in the
Wouri River
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1914, September 14 – British
armed merchantman
HMS Carmania sinks German auxiliary cruiser
SMS Cap Trafalgar in
an engagement off
Trindade Island in the South Atlantic
1914, September 16 – British gunboat
HMS Dwarf sinks German customs cutter Nachtigal in an action in the
Wouri River
1914, September 20 – In the
Battle of Zanzibar , the German cruiser
SMS Königsberg attacks and sinks the British cruiser
HMS Pegasus while it is in harbour for repairs.
1914, November 9 – Australian light cruiser
HMAS Sydney defeats German light cruiser
SMS Emden in the
Battle of Cocos .
1915, June 2 – British gunboat HMS Odin damages Ottoman gunboat Marmaris which beaches itself off
Amarah in the
Tigris River .
1915, August 8 – German auxiliary cruiser
SMS Meteor sinks British Armed Boarding Steamer
Ramsey off
Fair Isle
1917, February 26 – British gunboat HMS Mantis damages Ottoman gunboat Doğan which runs aground near
Al Aziziyah .
1917, March 10 – German auxiliary cruiser
SMS Möwe
sinks New Zealand freighter Otaki but is seriously damaged
1920, May 3 – Soviet floating battery Krasnaya Zarya
engages French sloop Le Scarpe off Ochakov, damaging her and forcing her surrender.
1940, July 13 – German auxiliary cruiser
Atlantis sinks British liner
Kemmendine after a short action in the Indian Ocean.
1940, July 28 – German auxiliary cruiser
Thor indecisively engages the British
armed merchant cruiser
RMS Alcantara .
1940, November 5 – German heavy cruiser
Admiral Scheer sinks convoy escort armed merchant cruiser
HMS Jervis Bay in the North Atlantic.
1940, November 9 – The
Free French
aviso
Savorgnan de Brazza sinks her sister ship,
Vichy French aviso
Bougainville , off
Libreville .
1940, December 5 – German auxiliary cruiser Thor damages British auxiliary cruiser HMS
Carnarvon Castle .
1941, February 27 –
HMNZS Leander sinks Italian auxiliary cruiser
Ramb I in the
Action of 27 February 1941 , a brief engagement off the Maldives.
1941, April 4 – German auxiliary cruiser Thor sinks the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Voltaire in the
Action of 4 April 1941 1,200 km (650 nmi; 750 mi) off the
Cape Verde islands.
1941, May 8 – The British heavy cruiser
HMS Cornwall sinks German auxiliary cruiser
Pinguin in the
Action of 8 May 1941 off the Seychelles.
1941, November 19 – The
German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran and Australian light cruiser
HMAS Sydney
sink each other near
Western Australia .
1942, April 1 – German auxiliary cruiser Thor sinks British freighter Willesden after a brief action.
1942, June 6 – German auxiliary cruiser
Stier sinks the tanker SS Stanvac Calcutta in the
Action of 6 June 1942 in the South Atlantic.
1942, July 20 – German auxiliary cruiser Thor sinks British reefer Indus in a brief action.
1942, September 27 – German auxiliary cruiser Stier and American
Liberty ship
SS Stephen Hopkins sink each other in the South Atlantic.
1943, October 31 – November 1 –
USS Borie and
U-405 engage, ending when Borie
rammed the U-boat; both ships sank.
1941, July 25 – Ecuadorian gunboat
Abdón Calderón duels inconclusively with Peruvian destroyer Almirante Villar off Jambeli
2003, March 10 –
SLNS Sayura sinks LTTE logistic vessel MV Koimer off Mullaitivu
Anti-piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
28 August 2012 – Pirated tanker Energy Centurian fights off a Togolese navy patrol vessel and escapes.
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19 February 2016 – Nigerian frigate
NNS Okpabana captures the pirated tanker Elvis-3 in the Gulf of Guinea in a contested boarding action.
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6 April 2017 – A Libyan Coast Guard vessel captures a migrant smuggling vessel after an action off Zawiya.
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Anti-piracy off Venezuela
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