Engagement

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Type	Engagement
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Summary	An engagement is a continuous period of conflict between opposing forces.


Population	189

Categorised By	Into - Total: 189 Indexed below, Comparable at 100
Completeness	Included Activities Entered: 5 Order Of Battle Complete: 94 Units Entered: 117
Engagement Type	Air Strike: 40 Anti Submarine Action: 2 Battle: 7 Bombardment: 5 Land Battle: 1 Surface Action: 80 Torpedoing: 55
Activity Activity Class	Major: 35 Minor: 68 Moderate: 62
Activity Activity Result	Disasterous Activity: 1 Failed: 3 Partial Success: 2 Successful: 7
Activity Theatre Of War	Atlantic Theatre: 24 Mediterranean Theatre: 16 Pacific Theatre: 62
Activity Decade	1860s: 1 1870s: 13 1880s: 2 1890s: 3 1900s: 13 1910s: 38 1930s: 4 1940s: 111
Activity War Year	1914-1915: 6 1915-1916: 10 1916-1917: 4 1917-1918: 12 1918-1919: 5 1939-1940: 4 1940-1941: 17 1941-1942: 16 1942-1943: 59 1943-1944: 8 1944-1945: 9 1945-1946: 2
By Tree Scheme: Activity - Place Include	Africa: 4 Arctic Ocean: 1 Asia: 12 Atlantic Ocean: 23 Europe: 24 Mediterranean Sea: 6 North America: 2 Pacific Ocean: 37 South America: 9

Engagement

1866 07 20 0000 Surface Action Battle Of Lissa Vis Adriatic Sea

1870 08 17 0000 Surface Action Rugen Baltic Sea

1870 08 23 0115 Surface Action Danzig

1870 11 09 1330 Surface Action Meteor Fights Bouvet Havana

1877 05 29 0000 Surface Action Shah Vs Huascar Peru

1879 04 12 0000 Surface Action Battle Of Chipana Chile

1879 05 21 0000 Surface Action At Iquique

1879 05 26 0000 Bombardment Of Port Batteries At Antofagasta

1879 06 03 1310 Surface Action Huascar Escapes Near Punta De Lobos Chile

1879 07 10 0000 Surface Action Huascar Escapes From Iquique

1879 07 23 0000 Surface Action Huascar And Union Capture The Rimac Off Antofagasta

1879 08 27 0000 Surface Action Huascar Engages Magallanes And Abtao In Antofagasta

1879 08 29 0000 Surface Action Huascar Escapes From Blanco Encalada

1879 10 08 0000 Surface Action At Punta Angamos Chile

1882 07 11 0700 Bombardment Of Alexandria

1884 06 23 0000 Surface Action Tense Meeting Between French And Chinese Squadrons. Chefoo

1894 09 17 0000 Surface Action Battle Of The Yalu River Gulf Of Korea

1898 05 01 0000 Surface Action Battle Of Manila Bay Luzon, Philippine Islands

1898 07 03 0000 Surface Action Battle Of Santiago Santiago

1904 02 08 2230 Surface Action Torpedo Attack Port Arthur

1904 02 09 1110 Surface Action Battle Of Port Arthur

1904 02 09 1300 Surface Action Sortie Of The Varyag From Chemulpo

1904 03 06 0700 Bombardment Of Vladivostok

1904 03 10 0400 Surface Action Port Arthur

1904 08 10 1230 Surface Action Battle Of The Yellow Sea

1904 08 14 0500 Surface Action Off Ulsan Korea

1904 08 20 1630 Surface Action Destruction Of Novik La Perouse Strait

1905 05 27 0000 Surface Action Battle Of Tsushima Strait

1905 05 27 2000 Surface Action Destroyer Attacks In Tsushima Strait

1905 05 28 0930 Surface Action Sinking Of Svyetlana Sea Of Japan

1905 05 28 1015 Surface Action Surrender At Take Shima Sea Of Japan

1905 05 28 1800 Surface Action Scuttling Of The Donskoi Off Matsu Shima Sea Of Japan

1914 09 13 0000 Torpedoing Of Hela By E 9 North Sea

1914 09 22 0000 Torpedoing Of Aboukir Cressy And Hogue North Sea

1914 10 15 0000 Torpedoing Of HMS Hawke North Sea

1914 10 28 0000 Surface Action Emden Attacks Penang, Malay Peninsula

1914 11 01 0000 Surface Action Battle Of Coronel South Pacific

1914 12 08 0000 Surface Action Falkland Islands

1915 01 01 0000 Torpedoing Of Formidable Start Point England

1915 01 24 0714 Surface Action Dogger Bank

1915 03 18 0000 Torpedoing Of Bouvet Dardenelles

1915 04 27 0000 Torpedoing Of Leon Gambetta Strait Of Otranto

1915 05 15 0000 Surface Action Cape Helles Gallipoli Peninsula Turkey

1915 05 25 0000 Torpedoing Of Triumph Cape Helles Gallipoli Peninsula Turkey

1915 05 27 0000 Torpedoing Of Majestic Cape Helles Gallipoli Peninsula Turkey

1915 07 05 0000 Torpedoing Of Amalfi Mediterranean Sea

1915 08 08 0000 Torpedoing Of Heireddin Barbarossa By E 11 Sea Of Marmara

1915 10 23 0000 Torpedoing Of Prinz Adalbert

1915-01-01-0000 Torpedoing

1916 02 01 0000 Torpedoing Of Amiral Charner Syria

1916 05 31 0000 Surface Action Battle Of Jutland North Sea

1916 11 26 0000 Torpedoing Of Suffren Portugal

1916 12 27 0000 Torpedoing Of Galouis Aegean Sea

1917 01 01 0000 Torpedoing Of Cornwallis Malta

1917 01 23 0000 Surface Action Of Simoon North Sea

1917 03 18 0000 Torpedoing Dover Strait

1917 07 26 0000 Torpedoing Of Ariadne Beachy Head England

1917 09 18 0000 Torpedoing Of HMS Contest English Channel

1917 10 02 0000 Torpedoing Of Drake Northern Ireland

1917 10 17 0000 Surface Action Moon Sound

1917 10 17 0000 Surface Action Sinking Of British Convoy

1917 11 11 0000 Torpedoing Of Staunch

1917 12 06 0000 Torpedoing By U 53 Scilly Isles

1917 12 12 0000 Surface Action Loss Of HMS Partridge North Sea

1917 12 14 0000 Torpedoing Of Chateaurenault By UC 38 Taranto

1917-01-01-0000 Torpedoing

1918 04 23 0000 Bombardment Zeebrugge Raid

1918 08 06 0000 Torpedoing Of Comet

1918 08 07 0000 Torpedoing Of Dupetit-Thouars

1918 08 15 0000 Torpedoing Of Scott And Ulleswater Off North Sea

1918 11 09 0000 Torpedoing Of Britannia Gibraltar

1918-01-01-0000 Anti Submarine Action

1919 09 01 0000 Torpedoing

1939 09 03 0600 Surface Action Hel

1939 09 17 0000 Torpedoing HMS Courageous By U 20 South Western Approaches

1939 11 23 1707 Surface Action Scharnhorst And Rawalpindi Faeroes Gap

1939 12 13 0100 Surface Action Sinking Of Graf Spee River Plate

1940 02 22 2013 Air Strike GR 1st Destroyer Flotilla Vs GR 4 KG 26 North Sea

1940 04 08 0915 Surface Action Hipper Vs Glowworm Norwegian Sea

1940 04 09 0550 Surface Action Renown Vs Scharnhorst Gneisenau Norwegian Sea

1940 04 09 0620 Bombardment Norwegian Batteries Vs Blucher And Lutzow Oslo

1940 04 09 1000 Surface Action Destroyers Vs Coast Defence Ships Narvik

1940 04 10 0100 Surface Action First Battle Of Narvik

1940 04 11 0300 Torpedoing Of Lutzow By Spearfish The Skaw, Denmark

1940 04 13 0100 Surface Action Second Battle Of Narvik

1940 05 24 0000 Air Strike

1940 06 08 0000 Surface Action Glorious Sunk By Scharnhorst And Gneisenau Norwegian Sea

1940 07 03 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Mers El Kebir, Algeria

1940 07 05 0000 Torpedoing

1940 07 09 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Punto Stilo, Italy

1940 07 19 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Cape Spada, Crete

1940 08 15 0000 Torpedoing Of Helle By Delfino Greece

1940 11 11 0100 Air Strike Attack On Taranto Taranto

1940 11 27 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Cape Spartivento, Sardinia

1941 03 27 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Cape Matapan, Greece

1941 04 16 0100 Surface Action Battle Of The Tarigo Convoy Mediterranean Sea

1941 04 27 0000 Air Strike

1941 05 24 0800 Surface Action Bismarck And Hood Iceland Europe

1941 05 27 0947 Battle Sinking Of Bismarck Mid North Atlantic

1941 06 30 0000 Air Strike

1941 08 19 0000 Torpedoing Of HMS Bath By U 204

1941 09 01 0000 Torpedoing HMS Nelson

1941 09 23 0000 Air Strike StG2 Sinks Minsk Kronshtadt Island Baltic Sea

1941 10 18 0000 Torpedoing Of HMS Broadwater By U 101

1941 10 31 0000 Torpedoing Of USS Reuben James By U 562 Iceland Europe

1941 11 09 0100 Surface Action Battle Of The Duisberg Convoy Mediterranean Sea

1941 11 13 0000 Torpedoing HMS Ark Royal By U 81 Gibraltar

1941 12 10 0100 Air Strike Sinking Of Repulse And Prince Of Wales South China Sea

1941 12 13 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Cape Bon, Tunisia

1941 12 18 0000 Torpedoing Of HMS Stanley By U 574

1942 01 23 0100 Surface Action Balikpapan, Borneo, East Indies

1942 01 27 0100 Surface Action Endau

1942 01 31 0000 Torpedoing Of HMS Belmont By U 82

1942 02 04 0000 Air Strike On The Combined Strike Force Bali East Indies

1942 02 04 0100 Air Strike Battle Of Makassar Strait

1942 02 19 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Badung Strait

1942 02 20 0000 Surface Action Second Battle Badung Strait

1942 02 27 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Java Sea

1942 03 01 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Sunda Strait

1942 03 01 0900 Surface Action Loss Of Exeter Java Sea

1942 03 04 0000 Air Strike

1942 03 10 0100 Air Strike US Carriers On Lae Salamaua

1942 03 20 0100 Surface Action Convoy PQ13 Norwegian Sea

1942 05 04 0630 Air Strike Against Tulagi Coral Sea

1942 05 07 0100 Battle Of The Coral Sea

1942 05 07 0900 Air Strike Against Neosho And Sims Coral Sea

1942 05 07 0926 Air Strike TG 17 Against Shoho Coral Sea

1942 05 07 1358 Air Strike Against TG 17.3 Coral Sea

1942 05 08 0822 Air Strike Shokaku And Zuikaku Against Yorktown And Lexington Coral Sea

1942 05 08 0840 Air Strike Yorktown Against Shokaku And Zuikaku Coral Sea

1942 06 03 0100 Battle Of Midway Island, Hawaiian Islands

1942 06 03 1200 Air Strike Midway Against The Transports Pacific Ocean

1942 06 03 2200 Air Strike Catalinas Against Japanese Transports Pacific Ocean

1942 06 04 0430 Air Strike First Against Midway Island Midway Island, Hawaiian Islands

1942 06 04 0615 Air Strike Midway Against Japanese Carriers Pacific Ocean

1942 06 04 0655 Air Strike Midway Dive Bombers Against Japanese Carriers Pacific Ocean

1942 06 04 0702 Air Strike Enterprise And Hornet Against Japanese Carriers Pacific Ocean

1942 06 04 0838 Air Strike Yorktown Against Japanese Carriers Pacific Ocean

1942 06 05 0700 Air Strike Midway Against Mogami And Mikuma Pacific Ocean

1942 06 05 1331 Air Strike Hiryu Against Yorktown Pacific Ocean

1942 06 05 1530 Air Strike Enterprise Against Hiryu Pacific Ocean

1942 06 06 0800 Air Strike Enterprise And Hornet Against Mogami And Mikuma Pacific Ocean

1942 06 30 0000 Torpedoing Medway By U 372

1942 07 02 0000 Air Strike Sinking Of Tashkent Sevastopol

1942 08 07 1115 Air Strike IJN 25th AF Against US TF62 Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1942 08 07 1500 Air Strike Dive Bombers Against US TF62 Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1942 08 08 1000 Air Strike IJN 25th AF Against US TG62 Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1942 08 09 0100 Surface Action First Battle Of Savo Island, Solomon Islands

1942 08 19 0000 Air Strike B17s Hit Hagikaze Shortland Islands

1942 08 20 0000 Land Battle Ichiki Unit Attack Tenaru River

1942 08 22 0000 Surface Action Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1942 08 23 0100 Battle Of Eastern Solomon Islands

1942 08 24 1220 Air Strike Ryujo Against Henderson Field Solomon Islands

1942 08 25 0000 Air Strike Marine SDBs Hit Jintsu Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1942 08 28 1820 Air Strike Henderson Field Against Destroyers The Slot Or New Georgia Sound

1942 08 30 0000 Air Strike Sinking Of Colhoun Lunga Point Guadalcanal

1942 08 31 0746 Torpedoing I 26 Torpedoes Saratoga Solomon Islands

1942 09 05 0100 Surface Action Sinking Of Little And Gregory Lunga Point Guadalcanal

1942 09 11 0000 Air Strike Against Yayoi Goodenough Island, Solomon Sea

1942 10 11 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal

1942 10 25 0100 Battle Of Santa Cruz Islands

1942 11 08 0100 Battle Of Casablanca

1942 11 11 0000 Torpedoing HMS Hecla By U 505

1942 11 13 0100 Surface Action First Battle Of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1942 11 14 0100 Surface Action Second Battle Of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1942 11 29 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal

1942 12 01 0100 Surface Action Convoy JW51B North Cape, North Atlantic

1942 12 18 0100 Torpedoing Of Tenryu East Of Madang, New Guinea

1942 12 31 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Convoy JW51B Barents Sea

1943 03 03 0100 Air Strike Battle Of Bismarck Sea

1943 03 26 0100 Surface Action Komandorski Islands

1943 04 11 0000 Torpedoing Of HMS Beverly By U 188

1943 08 17 0000 Torpedoing Of Durazzo By Safari

1943 09 30 0000 Torpedoing Of HMCS St Croix By U 952

1943 10 06 0000 Air Strike StG77 Sinks Kharkov Crimea

1943 10 23 0100 Surface Action Sinking Of The Charybdis English Channel

1943 12 26 0100 Surface Action Sinking Of The Scharnhorst North Cape, North Atlantic

1944 01 11 0100 Torpedoing Of The Kuma Penang, Malay Peninsula

1944 02 05 0100 Torpedoing Of Kitakami South West Pacific

1944 02 20 0000 Torpedoing

1944 03 13 0100 Torpedoing Of Tatsuta South West Of Yokosuka

1944 06 09 0100 Surface Action Battle Of Quessant Isle D'Quessant, English Channel

1944 06 29 1500 Torpedoing Of Tsugaru By Darter Moratai Island, East Indies

1944 07 19 0100 Torpedoing Of Oi South China Sea

1944 10 25 0100 Battle Of Leyte Gulf

1944 10 25 0100 Torpedoing Of Tama Cape Engano Luzon

1945 01 16 0000 Torpedoing Of RUS Delatelnyi By U 286

1945 03 26 0000 Anti Submarine Action Puffin Rams A Seehund Lowestoft

1961 12 13 0000 Surface Action

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