Some of the biggest and most decisive battles took place at sea, the best known being the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Midway.
The Battle of Jutlnd was the largest sea battle and the only full-scale conflict of World War I. The battle between the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleed Fleet and the German Navy’s High Seas Fleet took place on the 31st. May -1 June 1916 off the North Sea of Denmark’s Jutland Peninsula. Neither side won a decisive victory in this battle. In the photo are British ships HMS Lion and HMS Queen Mary under German shelling.
The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on October 21, 1805, between the British Royal Navy and the fleets of the French and Spanish navies. The British won a decisive victory but lost Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, who was shot dead shortly before the end of the battle.
The Battle of the Coral Sea is historically significant as it was the first naval battle in which both sides sent aircraft carriers into action. This battle took place from May 4 to 8, 1942 in the Pacific Ocean between the Japanese Navy and the Navy and Air Force of the US and Australia. The fact that the American aircraft carrier Lexington was among the ships lost in this battle was seen as a limited victory for the Japanese. Strategically, however, the winner of this battle belonged to the Allies.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest sea battle of World War II and is considered by many historians to be the largest sea battle in history, involving more than 200,000 soldiers. This battle took place in the waters near the Philippine Leyte, Samar and Luzon Islands from October 23 to 26, 1944 between US and Australian forces and the Japanese Navy. Although the Japanese used the kamikaze (kamikaze) tactic for the first time, the Japanese Navy was generally defeated. In the photo is the event of the battleship USS St. Lo became the first major warship to sink during the Kamikaze campaign.
In the history of naval warfare, Lepato was the last major Western battle in which the sides fought using hand-rowed boats. This battle took place on October 7, 1571 between the Holy Alliance founded by Pope Pius V and the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras on the Ionian Sea.
The Battle of Cape Ecnomus took place south of Sicily in 156 BC between the fleets of the Carthaginians and the Roman Republic. This was a battle that took place during the 1st Punic War (264 – 241 BC) and brought victory to the Romans. With 680 warships and 290,000 soldiers, this was the largest naval battle in terms of number of combatants.
The Battle of Chesma took place from July 4-7, 1770 near the Gulf of Chesma off Cape Anatolia (in present-day Turkey) and the island of Chios (a Greek island in the Aegean Sea). This was the first of the fierce battles between the Ottomans and Russia in the Russo-Turkish War (1768 – 1774), and was the biggest defeat at sea that the Ottoman Empire had to experience since the Battle of Lepanto.
The Battle of Grengam was fought during the summer of 1720 on the island of Aland. This was the last major battle between Russia and Sweden. Russia’s victory led to the signing of the Treaty of Nystad the following year, ending hostilities between the two nations.
Described by many World War II historians as “one of the most devastating sea battles in world history”, the Battle of Midway took place from June 4-7, 1942 at Midway Atoll in Thailand. Binh Duong. The US Navy defeated the Japanese Navy’s strike force. Pictured is shortly before the Japanese ship Mikuma sank.
The Battle of Quiberon Gulf took place on November 20, 1759, a decisive sea battle between the British Royal Navy and the French Navy with the victory going to the British side. This was also the battle that signaled the emergence of the British Navy as the most powerful navy in the world.