British campaign in the Baltic (1918–1919)
1918–1919 British naval intervention during Russian Civil War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The British campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The codename of the Royal Navy campaign was Operation Red Trek.[6] The intervention played a key role in enabling the establishment of the independent states of Estonia and Latvia.[7] It failed to secure the control of Petrograd by White Russian forces, which was one of the main goals of the campaign.[1]
Quick Facts Baltic Naval War, Date ...
Baltic Naval War | |||||||||
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Part of Russian Civil War, Estonian War of Independence, Latvian War of Independence | |||||||||
British squadron in Koporye Bay in October 1919 | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
United Kingdom Estonia Latvia White movement | Russian SFSR | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair Walter Cowan Augustus Agar Johan Pitka |
Nikolai Kuzmin Fyodor Raskolnikov (POW) Sergey Zarubayev Alexander Zelenoy Lev Galler | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
: 1 aircraft carrier 1 monitor 23 light cruisers 85 destroyers 20 submarines 2 minelayers 18 minesweepers 10 coastal motor boats 4 depot ships[3][4] : 2 destroyers 1 gunboat |
2 battleships 1 pre-dreadnought 1 cruiser 17 destroyers 7 submarines 3 minelayers 9 minesweepers 2 depot ships | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
: 111-128 killed[3][5] at least 60 wounded[5] 9 captured 1 cruiser sunk 2 destroyers sunk 1 submarine sunk 2 minesweepers sunk 8 coastal motor boats sunk or stranded 1 destroyer damaged 7 other ships lost[5] 60 other ships damaged : 23 killed 3 missing[3] 1 icebreaker-tug sunk |
at least 483 killed 251 captured 1 battleship damaged 1 pre-dreadnought damaged 1 cruiser sunk 3 destroyers sunk 2 destroyers captured 1 submarine damaged 1 minesweeper defected 1 depot ship sunk[3] |
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