List of single-ship actions

This is a list of notable single-ship actions, naval bombardments and other naval events:

ingle-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 - HMS "Leopard" boards the USS "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 HMS|Highflyer|1898|2 defeats German auxiliary cruiser SS|Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
* 1914 September 14 - British auxiliary cruiser HMS "Carmania" sinks German auxiliary cruiser SMS|Cap Trafalgar near the Canary Islands
* 1914 November 9 - HMAS|Sydney|1912|6 defeats SMS|Emden|1906|6 at the Cocos Islands
* 1914 December 20 - German cruiser SMS|Königsberg|1905|6 sinks British cruiser HMS|Pegasus|1897|6 in Zanzibar

World War II

* 1940 November 5 - "Admiral Scheer" sinks convoy escort HMS "Jervis Bay" in the North Atlantic
* 1940 November 9 - Free French aviso "Savorgnan de Brazza" sinks Vichy French aviso "Bougainville" of the same class, off Libreville
* 1941 November 19 - HMAS "Sydney" vs "Kormoran" near Western Australia
* 1942 September 27- "Stier" vs SS "Stephen Hopkins" in the south atlantic

Later 20th Century

* 1967 October 21 - Egyptian Komar-class missile boats sink Israeli destroyer Eilat in the first combat use of P-15 Termit surface to surface missiles
* 1971 December 8 - A Pakistani submarine, the PNS Hangor, torpedoed and sank the INS Khukri, an Indian frigate during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

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