When was the last sea battle ?

[marty21]

Up until WW2 there were sea battles aplenty - The last one I recall is during the Falklands War - do they still occur ? Navies still get involved in war - take troops - aircraft carriers launch attacks/missiles, etc - but have we seen the end of sea battles - ship v ship?

 

[DotCommunist]

edit- piracy

 

[marty21]

edit- piracy

good point - is that a battle though - a big destroyer against 6 pirates in a fast boat?

 

[Pickman's model]

Up until WW2 there were sea battles aplenty - The last one I recall is during the Falklands War - do they still occur ? Navies still get involved in war - take troops - aircraft carriers launch attacks/missiles, etc - but have we seen the end of sea battles - ship v ship?

the uss cole says not

 

[Pickman's model]

oh - and there was the tonkin gulf incident in the 60s when the north vietnamese were said to have fired on the us navy. can't think of any proper naval battle during the falklands war tbh

 

[JimW]

I think you're right about it being the Falklands - can think of e.g. a few stand-offs in disputed waters of South China Sea or Iranian boats capturing those squaddies in Gulf but no actual ship-to-ship shooting.

 

[marty21]

oh - and there was the tonkin gulf incident in the 60s when the north vietnamese were said to have fired on the us navy. can't think of any proper naval battle during the falklands war tbh

A couple of ships were sunk - 1 British (The Sheffield?) and 1 Argentinian (The Belgrano?)

 

[Sirena]

It wasn't really a sea battle when the Israelis stormed that relief ship. That was just an international crime..

 

[Pickman's model]

A couple of ships were sunk - 1 British (The Sheffield?) and 1 Argentinian (The Belgrano?)

not in the same incident, and not by other surface vessels.

 

[Sirena]

A couple of ships were sunk - 1 British (The Sheffield?) and 1 Argentinian (The Belgrano?)

That would qualify as a sea battle because the Belgrano was sunk by a submarine...

 

[Pickman's model]

21 Argentinian

are you sure?

 

[Pickman's model]

That would qualify as a sea battle because the Belgrano was sunk by a submarine...

in the same way then a drone strike would count as a battle

 

[JimW]

in the same way then a drone strike would count as a battle

What do you want, rammings and repel boarders?

 

[Private Storm]

2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_naval_battles#21st_century

 

[marty21]

are you sure?

I thought I edited that real quick

 

[Pickman's model]

I thought I edited that real quick

not quick enough

 

[Sirena]

What do you want, rammings and repel boarders?

Then you would have to go for something like this

 

[JimW]

Then you would have to go for something like this

See they even have the skull and crossbones.

 

[CNT36]

Had a few scraps gig rowing.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

Ignoring skirmishes between single patrol vessels, is say this coins:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_the_coast_of_Abkhazia

 

[DotCommunist]

good point - is that a battle though - a big destroyer against 6 pirates in a fast boat?

theyt don't take on destroyers lol, they hit tankers. There is boarding and stuff.

Last time I heard of them trying to jack a russian boatload of wood (aye chinny) that happened to be guarded by special forces. There were no survivors

 

[19sixtysix]

There was the odd barney during the cod war?

 

[Sirena]

There was the odd barney during the cod war?

I think we sent a gunboat.....

 

[DotCommunist]

There was the odd barney during the cod war?

wake-swamping passes and shaken fists. Not proper war

 

[Sirena]

This is dramatic and this event led, curiously, to the last witchcraft trial in England....

 

[19sixtysix]

I think we sent a gunboat.....

Iceland tied up over 20 Royal navy frigates with 4 gun boats. That's more boats than the navy has now.

 

[moochedit]

This is dramatic and this event led, curiously, to the last witchcraft trial in England....

just googled that. bloody hell. I never knew they still had witchcraft trails in the 1940s.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

Not a battle as such but the entire Ethiopian navy was seized in 1996.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

in the same way then a drone strike would count as a battle

By that same ruling then Pearl Harbour didn't count as a naval battle, nor did the Battle of the Coral sea, the Battle of Midway or many other engagements in the pacific.
The analogy is much better for the Mediteranian as in both the Falklands attacks and the Medeteranean attacks on allied shipping the aircraft were land based. On the other hand the aircraft that sunk the Sheffield was an Argentine Navy jet.

 

[Pickman's model]

just googled that. bloody hell. I never knew they still had witchcraft trails in the 1940s.

they only introduced witchcraft trails in the 1960s