List of single-ship actions

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions.

HMS Leopard (right) fires upon the USS Chesapeake during the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair.

Single-ship actions

Anglo Spanish War

Golden Age of Piracy

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1743 June 20 - HMS Centurion captures the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de la Covadonga

American Revolutionary War

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.

French Revolutionary Wars

Quasi-War

Napoleonic Wars

First Barbary War

War of 1812

Suppression of the slave trade

  • 1828 April 2 - HMS Black Joke captures Providentia
  • 1828 May 1 - HMS Black Joke captures Presidenté
  • 1829 February 1 - HMS Black Joke captures Almirante
  • 1830 September 7 - HMS Primrose captures Veloz Passagera (details)
  • 1832 June 3 - HMS Speedwell captures the slaver Aquila off Cuba

Texas

First Schleswig War

  • 1849 June 27 - Prussian paddle steamer Preussischer Adler duels inconclusively with Danish brig St. Croix off Brusterort

Crimean War

  • 1853 November 17 - Russian steam frigate Vladimir captures Turkish/Egyptian steam frigate Pervaz Bahri in the Black Sea (first battle between steamships)

American Civil War

Chincha Islands War

War of the Pacific

Franco-Prussian War

  • 1870 November 7 - French aviso Bouvet fights German gunboat Meteor off Havana

Spanish-American War

  • 1898 April 25 - Spanish gunboat Ligera repulses an attack by American torpedo boat USS Foote (details)

Mexican Revolution

World War I

World War II

Ecuadorian–Peruvian War

  • 1941 July 25 - Ecuadorian gunboat Abdón Calderón duels inconclusively with Peruvian destroyer Almirante Villar off Jambeli

Korean War

Vietnam War

Falklands War

Sri Lankan Civil War

  • 2003 March 10 - SLNS Sayura sinks LTTE logistic vessel MV Koimer off Mullaitivu

Anti-piracy in Somalia

See also

Further reading

Notes

  1. The London Gazette: no. 16194. pp. 1437–1438. 22 October 1808.
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References