SINGLE-SHIP ACTION

This is a 'list of notable single-ship actions', 'naval bombardments' and other naval events: (not complete yet)

Contents

Single-ship actions

Russo-Swedish War

Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

War of 1812

Later 19th Century

World War I

World War II

Naval bombardments

Other naval events

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

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

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''

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''

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''

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

World War II

★ 1940 November 5 - ''Admiral Scheer'' sinks convoy escort HMS ''Jervis Bay'' in the North Atlantic

★ 1941 November 19 - HMAS ''Sydney'' vs ''Kormoran'' near Western Australia

★ 1942 September 27- ''Stier'' vs SS ''Stephen Hopkins'' in the south atlantic

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

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