Battle_of_Ösel_Island

Battle of Ösel Island

Battle of Ösel Island

1719 naval battle during the Great Northern War

The Battle of Ösel[lower-alpha 1] Island took place on May 24(4 June), 1719 (O.S.), during the Great Northern War. It was fought near the island of Saaremaa (Ösel).

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It led to a victory for the Russian captain Naum Senyavin, whose forces captured three enemy vessels, sustaining as few as eighteen casualties. It was the first Russian naval victory which did not involve ramming or boarding actions.[1]

Battle

Five months after Charles XII of Sweden died at Fredrikshald, a Russian squadron of seven warships assumed the offensive and Captains Naum Sinyaven and Konon Zotov attacked Commodore Anton Johan Wrangel near Osel Island.[2]

The Russian ships engaged in convoying galleys and transports, which waged the campaign along the Swedish skerries, landing troops on the islands and the sea coast. The raid by the Russian forces bore a clearly expressed punitive- demonstrative character.[3][4]

Swedish flotilla of three vessels was defeated. All three Swedish ships were captured at the cost of 18 Russian casualties.[5] The Swedish flagship Wachtmeister (1681) and a frigate were captured in heavy fighting.[2]

Ships involved

Russian Empire

  • Devonshire 52
  • Portsmouth 52
  • Raphail 52
  • Uriil 52
  • Varachail 52
  • Hyagudiil 52
  • Natalia 18

Swedish Empire

  • Wachtmeister 52 - Captured
  • Karlskrona Vapen 30 - Captured
  • Bernhardus 10 - Captured

Notes

  1. also Osel and Oesel

References

  1. [1]
    Sozaev, Eduard; Tredrea, John (2010-06-23). Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696–1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-5322-5.
  2. [2]
    Jaques, Tony (2006-11-30). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges [3 volumes]: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-02799-4.
  3. [3]
    Anisimov, Evgeniĭ Viktorovich (1993). The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-1-56324-047-8.
  4. [4]
    Gorshkov, S. G. (2013-10-22). The Sea Power of the State. Elsevier. ISBN 978-1-4832-8546-7.
  5. [5]
    Showalter, Professor Dennis (2013-09-16). Early Modern Wars 1500–1775. Amber Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78274-121-3.

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