List of naval battles

Pre1914

Atlantic, Arctic

Battle of Trafalgar, 21.10.1805

GB (winner) ↔ France, Spain

Battle of Hampton Roads 8./9.3.1862

US Civil War

Battle off Heligoland 9.5.1864

Denmark (winner) ↔ Austria-Hungary

Triple Alliance War / Paraguay War 1864-1870

Paraguay ↔ Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay (winner)

Battle off Havanna, 9.11.1870

Germany ↔ France ↔ Spain (draw)

Brazilian Naval Revolts / Revoltas da Armada 1893-1894

Brazil

Spanish-American-War April-August 1898

USA (winner) ↔ Spain

Further locations

Markommania-Incident 2.9./5.9.1902

Venezuelan crisis, 9.12.1902-19.2.1903

European Alliance ↔ Venezuela Compromise

The Great White Fleet World Tour 16.12.1907-22.2.1909

USA

Further locations

Dutch-Venezuelan-Crisis 26.11.-23.12.1908

Netherlands ↔ Venezuela

Portugiesische Revolution 5.10.1910

Agadir Crisis 1.-20.7.1911

Baltic

Battle of Oliwa / Gdańsk Roadstead 28.11.1627

Battle of Eckernförde 5.4.1849

Germany, Schleswig, Holstein (winner) ↔ Denmark

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Battle of Lepanto 1571

Holy League (winner) ↔ Ottoman Empire

Battle of the Nile, 1./2.8.1798

France ↔ GB (winner)

Battle of Tres Forcas 7.8.1856

Preussen ↔ Rifkaylen(Marokko) (winner)

Battle of Lissa (Vis) 20.7.1866

Austria-Hungary (winner) ↔ Italy

Cantonal Rebellion Spain 12.7.1873-3.1.1874

Spain

Salonika Incident 6.5.1876

Russo-Turkish-War 1877-78

SU, Romania (winner) ↔ Turkey ↔ GB

French conquest of Tunisia / Sfax 5.-16.7.1881

France (winner) ↔ Tunisia

Bombardement of Alexandria, 11.-13.7.1882

GB (winner) ↔ Egypt

Greco-Turkish War 18.4.-20.5.1897

Greece ↔ Ottoman Empire (winner) ↔ International Intervention

The Great White Fleet World Tour 16.12.1907-22.2.1909

USA

Further locations

Earthquake of Messina 28.12.1908, International Aid

Italo-Turkish War 1911/1912

Italy (winner) ↔ Ottoman Empire

1.Balkan War 1912/13

Ottoman Empire ↔ Balkan League (winner) ↔ International Intervention

Pacific, Asia

Battle of Chibi, Winter 208

Naval Battle of Hakodate 4.-10.5.1869

Ezo (Japan) ↔ Japan (Imperial) (winner)

War of the Pacific / Saltpeter War 1879-1881

Chile (winner) ↔ Peru, Bolivia

Battle of Thuan An 20.8.1883

France (winner) ↔ Vietnam

Battle of Fuzhou / Foochow / Pagoda Anchorage 1884-08-23

Battle of Shipu 14.2.1885

France (winner) ↔ China

Chilean Civil War 1891

Chile

First Sino-Jap. War: Battle of Pungdo 25.07.1894

First Sino-Jap. War: Battle of the Yalu River 17.9.1894

First Sino-Jap. War, Battle of Weihawei, 20.1.-12.2.1895

Anglo-Zanzibar War 27.8.1896

GB (winner) ↔ Sansibar

Spanish-American-War April-August 1898

USA (winner) ↔ Spain

Further locations

American-Philippine-War Feb 1899-Jul 1902

USA (winner) ↔ Spain

Hong Kong 6-day-war 14.-19.4.1899

Boxer Rebellion, 2.11.1899-7.9.1901

China ↔ GB, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Japan, SU, USA

Kuwait 28.9.1901

GB, Kuwait (winner) ↔ Turkey

Russ.Jap.War: Battle of Port Arthur 8./9.2.1904

Japan ↔ SU Russ tact win - jap strat win

Russ.Jap.War: Battle of Chemulpo Bay 9.2.1904

Japan (winner) ↔ SU

Russ.Jap.War: Sinking of Petropavlovsk 13.4.1904

Japan (winner) ↔ SU

Russ.Jap.War: Battle in the Yellow Sea 10.8.1904

Japan (winner) ↔ SU

Russ.Jap.War: Battle off Ulsan 14.8.1904

Japan (winner) ↔ SU

Russ.Jap.War: Battle of Korsakov 20.8.1904

Japan (winner) ↔ SU

Russ.Jap.War: Battle of Tsushima, 27./28.5.1905

Japan (winner) ↔ SU

The Great White Fleet World Tour 16.12.1907-22.2.1909

USA

Further locations

WkI

Atlantic, Arctic

Battle of Heligoland Bight 28.8.1914

Cameroon Campaign 7.9.-8.10.1914

GB (winner) ↔ Germany

British Bombardment Westende/Lombartzyde 28.10.1914

GB

Battle of the Falklands, 8.12.1914

British Bombardment Zeebrugge 15.12.1914

GB

Cuxhaven Raid 25.12.1914

Battle of the Doggerbank, 1915-01-24

Sinking SMS Greif 29.2.1916

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

Battle of Jutland, 31.5.-1.6.1916

GB ↔ Germany

British Bombardment Force Flanders Bight 4 June 1917

GB

Norway-Lerwick-Convoys 1917

British Bombardment Belgian Coast 19.10.1917

GB

2nd Battle of Heligoland Bight 17.11.1917

Zeebrugge / Ostende Raid 23.4.1918

GB, France ↔ Germany (winner)

Ostende 2nd Raid 9.5.1918

GB ↔ Germany (winner)

Allied Intervention Northern Russia: Invasion of Archangelsk 30.7.1918

Brazilian Naval Division for War Operations (DNOG) 1918

Baltic

Gotland-Raid, 2.7.1915

Battle of the Gulf of Riga, 8.-19.8.1915

Shelling of Balticport (Paldiski) 10./11.11.1916

Operation Albion, Moon, Ösel, Dagö,
12.-20.10.1917

Finnland-Intervention, März-Dezember 1918

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Battle of Antivari 16.8.1914

Bombardement Mount Lovcen 1914

Montenegro, France ↔ Austria-Hungary (winner)

Mesopotamian (Iraq) Campaign 1914-1918

GB ↔ Turkey

Further locations

Black Sea Raid 29.10.1914

Battle off Cape Sarych 18.11.1914

Turkey ↔ SU

Dardanelles / Gallipoli Campaign,
19.2.1915-9.1.1916

Action Black Sea 10.5.1915

Coastal Bombardements Ancona, Porto Buso 23.-24.5.1915

Battle of Kirpen Island 10.12.1915

1. Battle of Durazzo 28.-29.12.1915

Austria-Hungary ↔ Italy, France, GB

Dreadnought Action Black Sea 8.1.1916

Turkey ↔ SU

Eleusina Confrontation, 7.10.1916

Kastellorizo: Land artillery battery sinks seaplane carrier 11.1.1917

GB ↔ Turkey (winner)

Battle of Otranto Strait 14./15.5.1917

Naval Support Battle Isonzo 1917

GB, Italy ↔ Austria-Hungary

Japanese Detachment in Mediterranean, Battle 11.7.17

Battle of Imbros 20.1.1918

2. Battle of Durazzo 2.10.1918

Pacific, Asia

Mexican Civil War 1914

Mexico

Emden Raid 1914

Raids of SMS Königsberg 1914

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

Siege of Tsingtau, 1914-9-2 to 1914-11-7

Mesopotamian (Iraq) Campaign 1914-1918

GB ↔ Turkey

Further locations

Battle of Coronel, 1.11.1914

Battle of Tanga / Battle of the Bees 4.11.1914

Germany (winner) ↔ GB

Japanese intervention in Siberia 12.1.1918-June 1922

Interwar

Atlantic, Arctic

Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Further locations

Baltic

Baltic War, Intervention of the Royal Navy in the Baltic Sea 1918-1920

GB, Estonia, Lithuania, France, Germany (winner) ↔ SU

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Russ. Revolution Internat. Black Sea Fleets 1919, French Mutinies

Battle of Alexandrovsky Fort 21.5.1919 and the Caspian Flottilla

Rif War: Landing at Al Hoceima 8.9.1925

Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Further locations

Pacific, Asia

Honda Point Desaster 8.9.1923

Wanhsien Incident 27.8.1926

Sino-Soviet-War 1929

SU (winner) ↔ China

January 28 Incident, Shanghai War 1932

Japan ↔ China

Mutiny on the De Zeven Provinciën Feb. 1933

Second Sino-Japanese War 7.7.1937-9.9.1945

Wk2

Atlantic, Arctic

Battle of the River Plate
13.12.1939

Operation Weserübung 8.4.40-8.6.40

Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk 26.5.-4.6.1940

BETASOM 8.1940-9.1943

Italy

Battle of Dakar, Operation Menace,
24.9.1940

Tirpitz, 1940-1944

Arctic Raids 1941

Operation Rheinübung (Bismarck) 18.5.-27.5.1941

Operation Cerberus, the Channel Dash, 12.2.1942

St.Nazaire Raid, 28.3.1942

2.7.1942 PQ17 / Operation Rösselsprung

Operation Wunderland Kara Sea 16.8.-5.10.1942

Germany ↔ SU

Dieppe Raid, 19.8.1942

Operation Frankton 12.12.1942

Battle of the Barents Sea, JW51B 31.12.1942

Operation Leader, Raid on Bodø Harbor, 4.10.1943

Action off Les Sept Iles, 23.10.1943

Battle off the North Cape 25.-26.12.1943, Sinking of Scharnhorst

Exercise Tiger, Battle of Lyme Bay 27./28.4.1944

Operation Neptune, 6.6.1944

Battle of Cherbourg, 25.6.1944

Operation Infatuate, Battle of the Schelde 1.-8.11.1944

GB, Canada (winner) ↔ Germany

Granville Raid, 8.3.1945

Germany (winner) ↔ GB, USA

Operation Jupiter, Landing Oléron 30.4.1945

France (winner) ↔ Germany

Simulated attack U2511 on HMS Norfolk, 6.5.1945

Germany (winner) ↔ GB

Baltic

Invasion of Poland, 1.9.1939

Several Baltic Battles 1941-1945

Operation Beowulf, Moon, Ösel (Saaremaa), Dagö,
8.9.-21.10.1941

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Operation Vardo, Bombardement on Vardo, Genua 14.6.1940

Battle of the Espero Convoy 28.6.1940

Operation Catapult, Mers-el-Kébir, 3.7.1940

Malta Konvois 1940-1942

GB, Australia, Netherlands, Poland ↔ Italy, Germany

Battle of Punta Stilo 9.7.1940

Battle of Cape Spada 19.7.1940

Battle off Cape Passero 12./13.10.1940

Red Sea, Convoy BN.7 21.10.1940

Battle of Tarent, Battle of the Strait of Otranto 11./12.11.1940

Schlacht von Kap Teulada/Spartivento 27.11.1940

Battle of Bardia (Tobruk area) Coastal Bombardement 3.-5.1.1941

GB (winner) ↔ Italy

Operation Grog: Bombardement Genua 9.2.1941

GB ↔ Italy

Operation Abstention, Invasion Castellorizo 25.-28.2.1941

GB, Australia ↔ Italy (winner)

Battle of Cape Matapan 28.3.1941

Battle of the Tarigo Convoy off Sfax 16.4.1941

Bombings on Greek Navy at Invasion of Greece April 1941

Battle for Crete 14.-31.5.1941

Germany, Italy (winner) ↔ GB

British Invasion of Syria & Lebanon Juni 1941

GB, Australia (winner) ↔ France

Black Sea 1941-1945

Raid on Constanza 26.6.1941

SU ↔ Romania, Germany (winner)

Battle of the Duisburg / BETA Convoy 9.11.1941

Sinking HMS Ark Royal 12./13.11.1941

GB, Netherlands ↔ Germany, Italy (winner)

Sinking HMS Barham 25.11.1941

GB ↔ Germany (winner)

Cape Bon 13.12.1941

1. Battle of the Sirte 17.12.1941

Raid on Alexandria 19.12.1941

2. Battle in the Sirte 22.3.1942

Italian Navy in Black Sea from May 1942

Italy

Operation Harpoon, Vigorous 12.-16.6.1942

GB ↔ Italy, Germany

Operation Pedestal 3.-15.8.1942

GB ↔ Italy, Germany

Battle of Haifa 10.8.1942

Italy ↔ GB (winner)

Operation Agreement, Raid on Tobruk 13./14.9.1942

GB, Rhodesia, New Zealand ↔ Germany, Italy (winner)

Operation Torch, 8.-12.11.1942

Forza Navale Speciale, Landing on Corse 11-13.11.1942

Italy (winner) ↔ France

Toulon 27.11.1942

Battle of Skerki Bank, 2.12.1942

Operation Corkscrew, Landing on Pantelleria 18.5.-11.6.1943

Operation Husky, Landing on Sicily 9.7.-17.8.1943

GB, Netherlands, Australia, USA (winner) ↔ Italy, Germany

Operation Slapstick, Tarent Landing 9.9.1943

GB, USA (winner) ↔ Germany

Operation Avalanche, Salerno Landings 9.-16.9.1943

GB, Greece, Poland, USA, Netherlands, France ↔ Germany

Surrender Regia Marina 8.-10.11.1943

Italy ↔ GB (winner) ↔ Germany

Catastrophy of Bari 2.12.1943

Germany ↔ Alliierte

Diederichsen Convoy 1944

Operation Anvil-Dragoon, France, 15.8.-14.9.1944

Pacific, Asia

Battle of Koh Chang, 17.1.1941

Pearl Harbour, 7.12.1941

Battle of Wake Island 8.12.-23.12.1941

Naval Battle of Malaya, 10.12.1941

Invasion Celebes 11.1.-27.3.1942

Japan (winner) ↔ Netherlands, USA

Balikpapan 23/24.1.1942

Japan ↔ USA, Netherlands

Endau (Malaya) 27.1.1942

Japan ↔ GB, Australia (winner)

Dutch East Indies: Invasion on Sumatra, 6.2.-17.2.1942 (Operation L, Palembang)

Dutch East Indies: Badung Strait 19/20.2.1944

Japan (winner) ↔ Netherlands, USA

Dutch East Indies: Invasion on Java, 25.2.-9.3.1942

Indian Ocean Raid 1-9.4.1942

Japan (winner) ↔ GB, Netherlands, Australia

Doolittle Raid 18.4.1942

USA (winner) ↔ Japan

1942, 3. bis 8. Mai, Schlacht im Korallenmeer

USA, Australia ↔ Japan

Battle of Madagascar / Operation Ironclad 5.5.-6.11.1942

Midway, Aleuten (Dutch Harbor, Attu, Kiska) Operations 4.-7.6.1942

I-25 Attacks on continental US 6-9.1942

Japan (winner) ↔ USA

Guadalcanal Landings, Operation Watchtower, 7.8.1942

USA, Australia ↔ Japan

Guadalcanal campaign: Savo Island 9.8.1942

Japan (winner) ↔ USA, Australia

Guadalcanal campaign: East Solomons 24.8.1942

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Guadalcanal campaign: Cape Esperance 11.10.1942

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Guadalcanal campaign: Henderson Field 23-26.10.1942

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Guadalcanal campaign: Santa Cruz 26.10.1942

Japan (winner) ↔ USA

Guadalcanal campaign: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 12-15.11.1942

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Guadalcanal campaign: Tassafaronga 30.11.1942

Japan (winner) ↔ USA

Guadalcanal campaign: Operation Ke, Evacuation Guadalcanal 14.1.-8.2.1943, Battle of Rennell Island 29.,30.1.43

Battle of Blackett Strait 6.3.1943

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Battle of the Bismarck Sea 4-4.3.1943

Japan ↔ USA (draw)

Battle of the Komandorski Islands 26.3.1943

Japan ↔ USA (draw)

Schlacht im Kula-Golf (Rice Anchorage) 5/6.7.1943

Japan (winner) ↔ USA

Battle of Kolombangara 12.7.1943

Japan (winner) ↔ USA, New Zealand

Battle of Vella Gulf 6/7.8.1943

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Battle off Horaniu 18.8.1943

Japan (winner) ↔ USA

Battle of Vella Lavella 6.10.1943

Japan (winner) ↔ USA

Battle of Empress Augusta Bay 1/2.11.1943

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

First and Second Rabaul Air Strikes 5.+11.11.1943

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Operation Galvanic, Gilbert Islands 19-28.11.1943

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Battle of Cape St. George 25.11.1943

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Operation Hailstone, Battle of Truk, 17.-18.2.1944

Battle of the Philippine Sea (Great Marianas Turkey Shoot ) 19-21.6.1944

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Leyte Gulf 23.10-21.12.1944
(Palawan, Sibuyan, Surigao, Samar, Cape Engano, Ormoc Bay)

British Pacific Fleet 22.11.44-1945

Battle of Okinawa, 26.3.-2.7.1945

USA, Canada, New Zealand, GB (winner) ↔ Japan

1945, 7. April, Operation Ten-gō (Luft- und Seeschlacht südlich von Japan)

Japan ↔ USA (winner)

Borneo Campaign, Operation Oboe 1.5.1945-30.8.1945

USA, Canada, New Zealand, GB, Australia (winner) ↔ Japan

Penang / Malakka Strait 15.5.1945

Japan ↔ GB, France, Netherlands (winner)

Carrier Raids on the Home Islands 24-28.7.1945

Japan ↔ GB, USA (winner)

Afterwar

Atlantic, Arctic

Bay of Pigs, 17.-20.4.1961

Cuba (winner) ↔ USA

Cuba Crisis, 14.-28.10.1962

Operation Sea Orbit 31.7.1964-3.10.1964

Further locations

Falklands War/Guerra de las Malvinas, 2.-20.4.1982

Conch Republic, the shortest war in history 23.4.1982

USA (winner) ↔ Conch Republic

UK Carrier Strike Group 21

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Corfu Channel Incidents 1946

Naval Engagements of Israel

Suez Crisis 29.10.-7.11.1956

France, Israel, GB ↔ Egypt ↔ USA

Turkish Invasion of Cyprus 1964, 1974

Gulf of Sidra Incident 1981

USA ↔ Libya

Gulf of Sidra Action 1986

USA ↔ Libya

El Dorado Canyon: Tripolis, Benghazi 14.4.1986

USA ↔ Libya

Tobruk Air Battle 1989

USA ↔ Libya

Operation Sharp Guard 1993-1996

Yugoslavia ↔ NATO

Battle off the coast of Abkhazia 10.8.2008

SU (winner) ↔ Georgia

Anti-ISIS Naval Forces 2014-2021

Caspian Flottilla, 1st Action Kalibr versus IS 7.10.2015

SU ↔ IS

Incident at Operation Sea Guardian, 10.6.2020

Turkey ↔ Greece, France

2021 Black Sea incident

SU ↔ GB, Netherlands, USA

Russian Invasion of Ukraine, from 24.2.2022

SU (winner) ↔ Ukraine

Pacific, Asia

The French Indochina naval operations (1946-55)

Malayan Emergency (Anti-British National Liberation War) 1948-1960

Amethyst Incident / Yangtze Incident, 20.4.-30.7.1949

Korea War 1950-1953

Navy Recovery Ships Mercury/Gemini/Apollo/Skylab/Soyuz 1961-75

Kuwait Crisis, Operation Vantage, 1.7.1961

GB, Kuwait ↔ Iraq

Invasion/Liberation of Goa 17-19.12.1961, 18.12. Battle at Mormugão harbour

Portugal ↔ India (winner)

Battle of Arafura Sea / Vlakke Hoek 15.1.1962

Indonesia-Malaysia-Conflikt 1963-1966

Commonwealth, Malaysia ↔ Indonesia

Aden Emergency (Radfan Uprising ) 1963-1967

GB ↔ Aden

Gulf of Tonkin incident, 2.8.1964

Vietnam War (1955)/1964-1975

Operation Sea Orbit 31.7.1964-3.10.1964

Further locations

2nd Indo-Pakistani War: Operation Dwarka 7.-8.9.1965

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Battle for the Paracel Islands 18.1.1974

Operation Eagle Claw, Iran Hostage Crisis, 24./25.4.1980

Tanker War, Persian Gulf 1984-1988

Johnson South Reef Skirmish, 1988-03-14 - 1988-03-16

Operation Praying Mantis, 18.4.1988

Operation Desert Storm, 17.1.-28.2.1991

No-Fly-Zone War 1992-2003

USS Cole Suicide Attack 12.2.2000

Operation Iraqi Freedom / 2. Golfkrieg 20.3.-1.5.2003

Incidents Persian Gulf, 2021

First Landing and Start of jap. Aircraft Carrier since 75 years, 3.10.2021

USA, Japan

Anniversaries