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This is a list of notable single-ship actions, naval bombardments and other naval events:
Not complete yet
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Single-ship actions
1618 about May - Maltese Gran Galeone vs 3 Tunisians
1781 May 30 Cape Santa Maria - 2 Dutch vs 2 British frigates
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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.
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Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1798 July 15 - British battleship Lion vs Spanish frigates
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
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War of 1812
1813 August 5 - French schooner Decatur captures British schooner Dominica
1814 January 23 - French frigates Etoile and Sultane vs British frigates Creole and Astraea
1814 February - Epervier 18 (Ruchard Wales) captures Alfred 16
1814 April 20 - Orpheus (Hugh Pigot) captures Frolic (Joseph Bainbridge)
1814 June 28 - Wasp 23 captures Reindeer 19 (William Manners)
1814 July 12 - Syren 7 captures Landrail 4 (Robert Lancaster)
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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)
1870 November 7 - French aviso Bouvet fights German gunboat Meteor off Havana
1879 May 21 Iquique - Peruvian Huáscar sinks Chilean corvette Esmeralda
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World War I
1914 August 26 - British cruiser Highflyer defeats German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
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World War II
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Naval bombardments
1682 end of August - French attack on Algiers
1683 - French attack on Algiers
1816 August 27 - British/Dutch attack on Algiers (details)
1840 November 3 - British/Austrian/Turkish bombardment of Acre
1866 May 1 - Spanish bombardment of Valparaiso
1882 July 11 - British bombardment of Alexandria
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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
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