Battle of the Gulf of Riga
- Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict= Battle of the Gulf of Riga
partof=World War I
date= August 8–19, 1915
place=Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea
result= Russian Defensive Victory
combatant1= navy|German Empire
combatant2= navy|Russia
commander1= Vizeadmiral Ehrhard Schmidt
commander2= Vice-Admiral Vasily Kanin
strength1=
strength2=
casualties1=
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The Battle of the Gulf of Riga was a World War I naval operation of the German High Seas Fleet against the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea in August 1915.
The operation's objective was to destroy the Russian naval forces in the Gulf and facilitate the fall of Riga to the German army in the later stages of the Central Powers' offensive on the Eastern Front in 1915. The German fleet, however, failed to achieve its objective and was forced to return to its bases; Riga remained in Russian hands until eventually falling to the Germans on September 1, 1917.
Order of battle
Russia
* Battleship: "Slava"
* Gunboats: "Grozyashiy", "Kharbry", "Sivuch"
* Minelayer: "Amur"
* Flotilla of 16 destroyers
Germany
* Battleships: "Nassau", "Posen", "Braunschweig", "Elsaß"
* Battlecruiser: "Moltke"
* Cruisers: "Augsburg", "Bremen", "Graudenz", "Pillau"
* Flotilla of 56 destroyers
References
* [http://www.neva.ru/EXPO96/book/chap11-2.html Account of Russian WWI naval operations in the Baltic Sea]
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