A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; it is called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions.
1796, October 8 & 9 – Merchant ship Backhouse repels attack by French privateer
1796, November 28 – The enslaving ship Tarleton repels two different French privateers on the same day, each engagement representing a single-ship action
1797, 29 January – French privateer Jeune Emilie captures the British merchant vessel Battalion
1797, March 13 – HMS Viper captures Nuestra Señora de la Piedad.
1837, February 5 – Chilean brig Aquiles, which kept the port of Callao blocked, attacked the Confederate schooner Yanacocha and forced her to return to her anchorage.
1838, January 18 – Chilean corvette Libertad captured the Confederate corvette Confederación on the coast of Callao.
First Schleswig War
1849, June 27 – Prussian paddle steamer SMSPreussischer Adler duels inconclusively with Danish brig St. Croix off Brusterort
Crimean War
1853, November 17 – Russian steam frigate Vladimir captures Turkish/Egyptian steam frigate Pervaz Bahri in the Black Sea
1914, September 16 – British gunboat HMS Dwarf sinks German customs cutter Nachtigal in an action in the Wouri River
1914, September 20 – In the Battle of Zanzibar, the German cruiser SMSKönigsberg attacks and sinks the British cruiser HMSPegasus while it is in harbour for repairs.
1941, April 4 – German auxiliary cruiser Thor sinks the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Voltaire in the Action of 4 April 19411,200km (650nmi; 750mi) off the Cape Verde islands.
↑ Sapunar Peric, Pedro. "El Mini Combate Naval de Tocopilla"(PDF) (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Academia de Historia Naval y Marítima de Chile. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
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