List of naval battles

Pre1914

Atlantic, Arctic

Kolumbus Expedition to America 3.8.1492

Spain

Circumnavigation Fernando Magellan 10.8.1519-6.9.1522

Spain

Further locations

Battle of Trafalgar, 21.10.1805

GB (winner) ↔ France, Spain

Battle of Hampton Roads 8./9.3.1862

USA

Battle off Heligoland 9.5.1864

Denmark (winner) ↔ Austria-Hungary, Prussia

Triple Alliance War / Paraguay War 1864-1870

Paraguay ↔ Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay (winner)

Austro-Prussian War 14.6.-22.7.1866

Prussia (winner) ↔ Austria-Hungary, Hannover

Battle off Weser 24.8.1866

Germany ↔ France

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

Germany ↔ Haiti

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

Portugal

Agadir Crisis 1.-20.7.1911

Germany ↔ France

Baltic

Battle of Oliwa / Gdańsk Roadstead 28.11.1627

Poland (winner) ↔ Sweden

Battle of Eckernförde 5.4.1849

Germany, Schleswig, Holstein (winner) ↔ Denmark

Battle of Jasmund 17.3.1864

Denmark (winner) ↔ Germany

Kiel Ironclad Race 4.10.1866

USA ↔ Germany (winner)

Battle off Hiddensee 17.8.1870

France ↔ Prussia

Battle in the Putziger Wiek 23.8.1870

France ↔ Prussia

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Battle of Lepanto 1571

Holy League (winner) ↔ Ottoman Empire

Battle of the Nile, 1./2.8.1798

France ↔ GB (winner)

Sea of Azov Naval Campaign (Crimean War) 25.5.-22.11.1855

SU ↔ GB, France (winner)

Battle of Kinburn 17.10.1855 (Crimean War)

SU ↔ GB, France (winner)

Battle of Tres Forcas 7.8.1856

Prussia ↔ 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

Turkey ↔ Greece, France, GB, SU, Italy

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

Italy

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

China

Circumnavigation Fernando Magellan 10.8.1519-6.9.1522

Spain

Further locations

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

France ↔ China

Battle of Shipu 14.2.1885

France (winner) ↔ China

Chilean Civil War 1891

Chile

First Sino-Jap. War: Battle of Pungdo 25.07.1894

China ↔ Japan

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

China ↔ Japan

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

China ↔ Japan

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

GB (winner) ↔ Clans

Boxer Rebellion, 2.11.1899-7.9.1901

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

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

First Blood: Königin Luise, HMS Amphion, 4.8.1914

GB ↔ Germany

Raids of SMS Karslruhe Middle Atlantic 1914

Germany ↔ GB, France

Channel Cover of the BEF Expeditionary Force, August 1914

Germany ↔ GB, France

Battle of Rio de Oro 26.8.1914

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

Battle of Heligoland Bight 28.8.1914

GB ↔ Germany

Cameroon Campaign 7.9.-8.10.1914

GB (winner) ↔ Germany

Sinking Aboukir, Hogue, Cressy 22.9.1914

Germany (winner) ↔ GB

Texel Action 17.10.1914

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

British Bombardment Westende/Lombartzyde 28.10.1914

GB

Yarmouth Raid 3.11.1914

Germany (winner) ↔ GB

British Bombardments Zeebrugge 1914

GB

Battle of the Falklands, 8.12.1914

Germany ↔ GB

Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby 16.12.1914

Germany ↔ GB, France

Cuxhaven Raid 25.12.1914

GB ↔ Germany

Battle of the Doggerbank, 1915-01-24

GB ↔ Germany

Battle of North Hinder 1.5.1915

GB ↔ Germany

Scuttling SMS Meteor 9.8.1915

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

Battle off Amrum 17.8.1915

GB ↔ Germany

British Bombardements Belgian Coast 1915

GB, France ↔ Germany

Sinking SMS Greif 29.2.1916

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

British Raid Hoyer 25.3.1916

GB ↔ Germany

Raid on Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth 24./25.4.1916

GB ↔ Germany

Tondern Raid 4.5.1916

GB ↔ Germany

Battle of Jutland, 31.5.-1.6.1916

GB ↔ Germany

Some Actions Channel, North Sea 1916

GB ↔ Germany

Some Actions Channel, North Sea 1917

GB, France ↔ Germany

Battle of Flanders Bight 23.1.1917

GB ↔ Germany

AMC SMS Leopard 16.3.1917

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

Bombardement Zeebrugge Gates 12.5.1917

GB ↔ Germany

Bombardment Ostende 4.6.1917

GB ↔ Germany

Norway-Lerwick-Convoys 1917

Germany ↔ GB

British Bombardment Belgian Coast 19.10.1917

GB ↔ Germany

2nd Battle of Heligoland Bight 17.11.1917

GB ↔ Germany

Attack on Dover Barrage 14/15.2.1918

GB ↔ Germany (winner)

British North Russia Squadron and Allies 1918

GB, France, SU, USA

German Bombardemenet on Dunkirk 21.3.1918

GB, France ↔ Germany

Zeebrugge / Ostende Raid 23.4.1918

GB, France ↔ Germany (winner)

Ostende 2nd Raid 9.5.1918

GB, France ↔ Germany (winner)

Allied Intervention Northern Russia: Invasion of Archangelsk 30.7.1918

GB, France, USA ↔ SU

Brazilian Naval Division for War Operations (DNOG) 1918

Brazil

Baltic

Baltic 1914: Mining Operations and Skirmishes

Germany ↔ SU

Loss of SMS Magdeburg 25.8.1914

Germany ↔ SU (winner)

Assault on Libau 7.5.1915

Germany ↔ SU

Encounter off Backofen (Uzava), 19.6.1915

SU ↔ Germany

Action off Windau 28.6.1915

Germany ↔ SU

Gotland-Raid, 2.7.1915

Germany ↔ SU, GB

Destroyer Skirmish Irben Strait 17.7.1915

Germany ↔ SU

Battle of the Gulf of Riga, 8.-19.8.1915

Germany ↔ SU

Russian Raid on German Sealanes 30.6.1916

SU, GB ↔ Germany

Shelling of Balticport (Paldiski) 10./11.11.1916

Germany ↔ SU

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

Germany (winner) ↔ SU, GB

Finnland-Intervention, März-Dezember 1918

Sweden ↔ Finland, Germany ↔ SU, GB

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Pursuit of the Goeben 4.-10.8.1914

Germany ↔ GB, France

Battle of Antivari 16.8.1914

Austria-Hungary ↔ GB, France

Bombardement Mount Lovcen 1914

Montenegro, France ↔ Austria-Hungary (winner)

Mesopotamian (Iraq) Campaign 1914-1918

GB ↔ Turkey

Further locations

Black Sea Raid 29.10.1914

Turkey ↔ SU

Battle off Cape Sarych 18.11.1914

Turkey ↔ SU

Dardanelles / Gallipoli Campaign,
3.11.1914/19.2.1915-9.1.1916

Turkey, Germany ↔ GB, France, SU, Australia

Raid on Zonguldak 24/25.12.1914

Turkey ↔ SU

Actions Black Sea 4-6.1.1915

Turkey ↔ SU

Raid on the Suez Canal 2.-4.2.1915

GB, France, India (winner) ↔ Turkey

Raid on Odessa 3.4.1915

Turkey ↔ SU

Action Black Sea / Bosporus 10.5.1915

Turkey ↔ SU

Coastal Bombardements Ancona, Porto Buso 23.-24.5.1915

Austria-Hungary ↔ Italy

Bombardement of Thessaloniki 21.10.1915

GB, France, SU (winner) ↔ Bulgaria

Battle of Kirpen Island 10.12.1915

Germany, Turkey ↔ SU (winner)

1. Battle of Durazzo 28.-29.12.1915

Austria-Hungary ↔ Italy, France, GB

Dreadnought Action Black Sea 8.1.1916

Turkey ↔ SU

Action off Durazzo 6.2.1916

Austria-Hungary ↔ Italy, France, GB

Eleusina Confrontation, 7.10.1916

Greece ↔ France, GB, SU (winner)

Kastellorizo: Land artillery battery sinks seaplane carrier 11.1.1917

GB ↔ Turkey (winner)

Battle of Otranto Strait 14./15.5.1917

Austria-Hungary, Germany ↔ Italy, France, GB

Naval Support Battle Isonzo 1917

GB, Italy ↔ Austria-Hungary

Japanese Detachment in Mediterranean, Battle 11.7.17

Japan ↔ Austria-Hungary

Actions off Gaza Autumn 1917

GB, France ↔ Germany, Turkey

Battle of Imbros 20.1.1918

Turkey, Germany ↔ GB

Action of Otranto Strait 22.4.1918

Austria-Hungary (winner) ↔ GB, France

2. Battle of Durazzo 2.10.1918

Italy, GB, USA, Australia ↔ Austria-Hungary

Pacific, Asia

Mexican Civil War 1914

Mexico

Emden Raid 1914

Germany ↔ SU, France, Australia, GB, New Zealand, Japan

Raids of SMS Königsberg 1914

Germany ↔ GB (winner)

First Action offTsingtao 22.8.1914

Germany (winner) ↔ GB, France

Siege of Tsingtau, 2.9.-7.11.1914

Germany, Austria-Hungary ↔ Japan, GB, France

Mesopotamian (Iraq) Campaign 1914-1918

GB ↔ Turkey

Further locations

Battle of Coronel, 1.11.1914

Germany ↔ GB

Battle of Tanga / Battle of the Bees 4.11.1914

Germany (winner) ↔ GB

Japanese intervention in Siberia 12.1.1918-June 1922

Japan, GB, USA ↔ SU

Interwar

Atlantic, Arctic

Scuttling Scapa Flow 21.6.1919

Germany

Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Spain

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

France

Battle of Alexandrovsky Fort 21.5.1919 and the Caspian Flottilla

SU ↔ GB

Rif War: Landing at Al Hoceima 8.9.1925

Rif ↔ Spain, France

Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Spain

Further locations

Pacific, Asia

Honda Point Desaster 8.9.1923

USA

Wanhsien Incident 27.8.1926

GB ↔ China

Sino-Soviet-War 1929

SU (winner) ↔ China

January 28 Incident, Shanghai War 1932

Japan ↔ China

Mutiny on the De Zeven Provinciën Feb. 1933

Netherlands

Second Sino-Japanese War 7.7.1937-9.9.1945

Japan (winner) ↔ China

Wk2

Atlantic, Arctic

Sinking of HMS Royal Oak 14.10.1939

GB ↔ Germany (winner)

Battle of the River Plate
13.12.1939

Germany ↔ GB

Operation Weserübung 8.4.40-8.6.40

Germany (winner) ↔ Denmark, Norway, GB, France, Poland

Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk 26.5.-4.6.1940

GB, Poland, France ↔ Germany

BETASOM 8.1940-9.1943

Italy

Battle of Dakar, Operation Menace,
24.9.1940

GB ↔ France

Tirpitz, 1940-1944

Germany ↔ GB

Arctic Raids 1941

GB, USA ↔ Germany

Operation Rheinübung (Bismarck) 18.5.-27.5.1941

Germany ↔ GB, USA (winner)

Operation Cerberus, the Channel Dash, 12.2.1942

Germany ↔ GB

St.Nazaire Raid, 28.3.1942

GB ↔ Germany

2.7.1942 PQ17 / Operation Rösselsprung

Operation Wunderland Kara Sea 16.8.-5.10.1942

Germany ↔ SU

Dieppe Raid, 19.8.1942

GB ↔ Germany

PQ18 2.-21.9.1942

USA, GB, SU, France ↔ Germany

Operation Frankton 12.12.1942

GB ↔ Germany

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

Germany ↔ GB

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

Germany ↔ GB

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

Germany ↔ Poland

Several Baltic Battles 1941-1945

Germany, Finland ↔ SU

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

Germany, Finland ↔ SU

Sinking Wilhelm Gustloff 30.1.1945

SU (winner) ↔ Germany

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian

Sinking of HMS Courageous 17.9.1939

GB ↔ Germany (winner)

Sinking of HMS Terror off Derna/Tobruk 24.2.1940

GB ↔ Germany (winner)

Operation Vardo, Bombardement on Vardo, Genua 14.6.1940

France ↔ Italy

Battle of the Espero Convoy 28.6.1940

Italy ↔ GB

Operation Catapult, Mers-el-Kébir, 3.7.1940

GB ↔ France

Malta Konvois 1940-1942

GB, Australia, Netherlands, Poland ↔ Italy, Germany

Battle of Punta Stilo 9.7.1940

GB ↔ Italy

Battle of Cape Spada 19.7.1940

Italy ↔ GB

Battle off Cape Passero 12./13.10.1940

Italy ↔ GB

Red Sea, Convoy BN.7 21.10.1940

GB ↔ Italy

Greco-Italian War 28.10.1940-23.4.1941

Italy ↔ Greece, GB

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

GB ↔ Italy

Schlacht von Kap Teulada/Spartivento 27.11.1940

Italy ↔ GB

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

Italy ↔ GB

Battle of the Tarigo Convoy off Sfax 16.4.1941

Germany, Italy ↔ GB

Bombings on Greek Navy at Invasion of Greece April 1941

Greece ↔ Germany

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

SU ↔ Romania, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia

Raid on Constanza 26.6.1941

SU ↔ Romania, Germany (winner)

Battle of the Duisburg / BETA Convoy 9.11.1941

Italy, Germany ↔ GB

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

Italy (winner) ↔ GB

2. Battle in the Sirte 22.3.1942

Italian Navy in Black Sea from May 1942

Italy ↔ SU

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 Avalanche, Salerno Landings 9.-16.9.1943

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

Operation Slapstick, Tarent Landing 9.9.1943

GB, USA (winner) ↔ Germany

Surrender Regia Marina 8.-10.11.1943

Italy ↔ GB, Greece, France (winner) ↔ Germany

Capture of BYMS-72 11.11.1943

GB ↔ Germany (winner)

Catastrophy of Bari 2.12.1943

Germany ↔ Alliierte

Operation Shingle: Anzio, Nettuno 22.1.-25.5.1944

USA, GB, France, Netherlands ↔ Germany

Diederichsen Convoy 1944

Germany ↔ France

Operation Anvil-Dragoon, France, 15.8.-14.9.1944

Pacific, Asia

Battle of Koh Chang, 17.1.1941

France ↔ Thailand

Pearl Harbour, 7.12.1941

USA ↔ Japan

Battle of Wake Island 8.12.-23.12.1941

Japan ↔ USA

Naval Battle of Malaya, 10.12.1941

Japan (winner) ↔ GB, Australia

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)

Japan ↔ Netherlands, GB, USA, Australia

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

Japan ↔ USA

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 Komandorski Islands 26.3.1943

Japan ↔ USA (draw)

Battle of the Bismarck Sea 4-4.3.1943

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

USA ↔ Japan

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

USA

Further locations

Falklands War/Guerra de las Malvinas, 2.4.-20.6.1982

Argentina ↔ GB

Conch Republic, the shortest war in history 23.4.1982

USA (winner) ↔ Conch Republic

Haiti: Operation Uphold Democracy 19.9.1994-31.3.1995

USA, UNO

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

Syria Missile Strikes (Shayrat Air base) 7.4.2017

Syria ↔ USA

Syria Missile Strikes (Damaskus, Homs) 14.4.2018

Syria, SU ↔ USA, GB, France

Kerch Strait incident 25.11.2018

SU (winner) ↔ Ukraine

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 ↔ Netherlands

Indonesia-Malaysia-Conflikt 1963-1966

Commonwealth, Malaysia ↔ Indonesia

Aden Emergency (Radfan Uprising ) 1963-1967

GB ↔ Aden

Gulf of Tonkin incident, 2.8.1964

USA ↔ North Vietnam

Vietnam War (1955)/1964-1975

Australia ↔ USA

Operation Sea Orbit 31.7.1964-3.10.1964

USA

Further locations

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

India ↔ Pakistan

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

India ↔ Pakistan

Battle for the Paracel Islands 18.1.1974

China ↔ Vietnam

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

Iran ↔ USA

Tanker War, Persian Gulf 1984-1988

USA ↔ Iran

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

China ↔ Vietnam

Operation Praying Mantis, 18.4.1988

USA ↔ Iran

Operation Desert Storm, 17.1.-28.2.1991

No-Fly-Zone War 1992-2003

USS Cole Suicide Attack 12.2.2000

Battle of Amami-Oshima 22.12.2001

North Korea ↔ Japan (winner)

Operation Iraqi Freedom / 2. Golfkrieg 20.3.-1.5.2003

Senkaku Boat Collission Incident 7/8.9.2010

China ↔ Japan (winner)

Operation Neptune Spear, Killing of Osama Bin Laden, 2.5.2011

USA

Incidents Persian Gulf, 2021/22

USA ↔ Iran

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

USA, Japan

Anniversaries