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)

Contents 1 Single-ship actions 1.1 Russo-Swedish War 1.2 Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1.3 War of 1812 1.4 Later 19th Century 1.5 World War I 1.6 World War II 2 Naval bombardments 3 Other naval events

[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

• 1807 June 22 Chesapeake-Leopard Affair - Leopard boards Chesapeake
• 1811 May 16 Little Belt Affair - President vs Little Belt
• 1812 August 19 - USS Constitution (Isaac Hull) defeats HMS Guerrière
• 1812 October 18 - USS Wasp (Jacob Jones) defeats HMS Frolic
• 1812 October 25 - USS United States (Stephen Decatur) captures HMS Macedonian
• 1812 December 29 - USS Constitution (Bainbridge) destroys HMS Java
• 1813 June 1 Boston Harbor - HMS Shannon captures USS Chesapeake (Lawrence)
• 1813 August 5 - French schooner Decatur captures British schooner Dominica
• 1813 August 14 - HMS Pelican captures Allen's USS Argus
• 1813 September 3 or 5 - USS Enterprise captures HMS Boxer off New England Coast
• 1814 January 23 - French frigates Etoile and Sultane vs British frigates Creole and Astraea
• 1814 February - Epervier 18 (Ruchard Wales) captures Alfred 16
• 1814 March 28 - HMS Phoebe captures USS Essex
• 1814 April 20 - Orpheus (Hugh Pigot) captures Frolic (Joseph Bainbridge)
• 1814 April 29 - USS Peacock captures HMS Epervier
• 1814 June 28 - Wasp 23 captures Reindeer 19 (William Manners)
• 1814 July 12 - Syren 7 captures Landrail 4 (Robert Lancaster)
• 1814 September 1 - USS Wasp sinks HMS Avon (James Arbuthnot)
• 1815 February 20 - USS Constitution captures HMS Cyane and HMS Levant
• 1815 March 23 - USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin

[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

• 1940 November 5 - Admiral Scheer sinks convoy escort HMS Jervis Bay in the North Atlantic
• 1942 September 27- Stier vs SS Stephen Hopkins in the south atlantic
• 1941 November 19 - HMAS Sydney vs Kormoran near Western Australia

[edit] Naval bombardments

• 1682 end of August - French attack on Algiers
• 1683 - French attack on Algiers
• 1816 August 27 - British/Dutch attack on Algiers
• 1840 November 3 - British/Austrian/Turkish bombardment of Acre
• 1863-64 Bombardment of Shimonoseki
• 1863 August - Bombardment_of_Kagoshima
• 1866 May 1 - Spanish bombardment of Valparaiso
• 1882 July 11 - British bombardment of Alexandria

[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

See also:

• List of naval battles
• List of submarine actions