World War Stories -Naval Warfare is the most expensive warfare in every conflict big or small. It is a war that involves great naval commanders whose success in battles can only be attained by his wisdom and strategy on handling his armada. The war is so massive that for some events it involves more than a hundred ships and thousands of men by which in a single battle would be perished. Naval wars are the most exciting and stunning in the world of conflict and the world has recorded the best naval battle in history. World War 1 and World War 2 experienced great Naval Warfares that sometimes used as the bases for Naval Tactics and Strategies.
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Here are the factors we based in selecting the Top Naval battle in history:
Number of warships involved
Number of men involved
Number of warships and men lost
Consequences and importance of the battle result.
Number of men involved
Number of warships and men lost
Consequences and importance of the battle result.
Battle of Salamis
The great naval battle of Salamis was fought among the Greeks and Persians in 480 BC in the narrow strait between Salamis and Attica. This was one of the last battles of the Persian Wars. The Greek forces were led by Themistocles, an Athenian statesman, who was responsible for devising the strategy used during the battle. Although Themistocles came up with the strategy to lure the Persians into the strait, he was not the general who carried it out. This was done by Eurybiades, a Spartan commander. The Persian forces were led by Xerxes, Darius' successor.
Strategy:
Themistocles used the lighter Greek ships rowed out in a spherical formation and rammed the front of their ships into the lumbering Persian vessels. They have also constantly "threw darts and stones upon the men. The Greek war galleys were specifically intended for this kind of fighting- long and slender, crowded with rowers beneath and soldiers on the light upper deck." With his used of this attack plan, about two hundred ships were sunk, several were captured and the rest retreated back to Asia Minor.
Battle of Lepanto
Took place on the 7th of October 1571, when an armada of the Holy League, an alliance of Spain (including its territories of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and the rest, determinedly crushed the focal fleet of the Ottoman Empire.
The long five-hour skirmish was fought at the northern edge of the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, where the Ottoman navy seafaring westwards from their naval location in Lepanto met the Holy League forces, which had arrived from Messina. Victory gave the Holy League provisional control over the Mediterranean, sheltered Rome from invasion, and prohibited the Ottomans from advancing further into Europe. Lepanto was the final major naval battle fought approximately between oar-powered galleys, and has been assigned grand symbolic significance ever since then.
The Ottoman fleet suffered in the defeat of about 210, 117 ships of the galleys, 10 fustas galliots and three were captured. The Holy League 20 galleys were destroyed and 30 were gravely damaged so they had to be scuttled. A Venetian galley was the only trophy of the Turks kept, everything else is deserted by them and recaptured.
Uluj Ali, who captured the flagship of the Maltese Knights, succeeded in extricating most of its ships from the battle when defeat was sure. Although he has cut the Maltese flagship pulling to get away, he sailed to Constantinople, gathering up the other Ottoman ships along the way and finally arriving there on 87 vessels. He has presented a large Maltese flag with the Sultan Selim II bestowed upon him its honorary title of "kιlιç" (Sword); Uluj thus became known as the Kılıç Ali Pasha.
The Holy League had suffered around 7,500 soldiers, sailors and rowers dead, but freed about as many Christian prisoners. Turkish casualties were around 15,000, and at least 3,500 were captured.
Uluj Ali, who captured the flagship of the Maltese Knights, succeeded in extricating most of its ships from the battle when defeat was sure. Although he has cut the Maltese flagship pulling to get away, he sailed to Constantinople, gathering up the other Ottoman ships along the way and finally arriving there on 87 vessels. He has presented a large Maltese flag with the Sultan Selim II bestowed upon him its honorary title of "kιlιç" (Sword); Uluj thus became known as the Kılıç Ali Pasha.
The Holy League had suffered around 7,500 soldiers, sailors and rowers dead, but freed about as many Christian prisoners. Turkish casualties were around 15,000, and at least 3,500 were captured.
The Battle of Trafalgar
Took place on 21st of October 1805. It was a naval battle fought involving theBritish Royal Navy and the joint fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, throughout the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). The skirmish was the most crucial British naval triumph of the war. Twenty-seven British ships of the line commanded by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory crushed thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre Villeneuve off the south-west coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar. The Franco-Spanish armada lost twenty-two ships, devoid of a single British vessel being lost.
The British victory outstandingly established the naval superiority that Britain had well-known throughout the past century and was achieved in part through Nelson's departure from the customary naval tactical orthodoxy, which concerned engaging an enemy fleet in a single line of battle parallel to the enemy to make possible signaling in battle and disengagement, and to maximize fields of fire and target areas. Nelson as an alternative divided his smaller force into two columns directed perpendicularly against the larger enemy fleet, with crucial outcome.
Nelson was fatally wounded during the battle, becoming one of Britain's the greatest war heroes. The chief officer of the joint French and Spanish forces, Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve, was captured along with his ship Bucentaure . Spanish Admiral Federico Gravina escaped with the remainder of the fleet, and succumbed months later to wounds he sustained during the battle.
The first shot was fired into English ship Royal Sovereign at noon. Tribute steel was received in silence the Royal Sovereign, who waited until he was released after three Spaniards decket, Santa Anna, then raked her decks with a murderous fire that killed or wounded 400 of its crew.
Meanwhile, Nelson's ship moves in, silent and intent, research vessel of the French admiral. Finally, just in front of him, lay the huge Spanish four-story, Santissima Trinidad. Guessing correctly that the flagship French must be close, Nelson was on him. As he did, Bucentaur Villeneuve ship, and seven or eight other enemy ships, opened fire on the success. However, he points without firing. When he was close enough to discover the Santissima Trinidad with his guns on the port side, 50 of his men dead and 30 wounded.
It was at this point that the success of a collision with the French fear. Locked together and wrapped in sheets of fire, the two ships drifted slowly through the smoke of battle. Gradually, though fighting has continued unabated, the smoke clears, a little from the deck of success, enough for the snipers to see the shoulders of English officials. A sniper kneeling on the mizzen-top aimed his gun at Nelson.
On the rear of success, turned to Captain Hardy was left to Nelson to give an order when Nelson fell, mortally wounded. Immediately, Hardy, a sergeant and two soldiers, marines, rushed to meet it. Nelson was then introduced into the cockpit, where he directed that his face should be covered with a handkerchief so that it can be recognized.
Meanwhile, best marksmen of terror have killed 40 officers and men, to destroy as the French, for the upper deck, but clear all the dead and wounded, tried to board. This company has cost them dear. A whistle boatswain pipeline, "boarders to repel boarders, and order immediately called clouds of smoky blue jackets on deck, where they killed all the men who managed to board the victory.
Below deck, the life of Nelson is now escape quickly. But he was still alive when Hardy returned from the fighting at the top to let her know that 14 enemy ships are provided in "Very well," said Nelson, "but I bargained for 20." He lingered a little longer. After a few muttered inarticulate words, he said clearly: "I did my duty. I thank God for that! "
Meanwhile, Nelson's ship moves in, silent and intent, research vessel of the French admiral. Finally, just in front of him, lay the huge Spanish four-story, Santissima Trinidad. Guessing correctly that the flagship French must be close, Nelson was on him. As he did, Bucentaur Villeneuve ship, and seven or eight other enemy ships, opened fire on the success. However, he points without firing. When he was close enough to discover the Santissima Trinidad with his guns on the port side, 50 of his men dead and 30 wounded.
It was at this point that the success of a collision with the French fear. Locked together and wrapped in sheets of fire, the two ships drifted slowly through the smoke of battle. Gradually, though fighting has continued unabated, the smoke clears, a little from the deck of success, enough for the snipers to see the shoulders of English officials. A sniper kneeling on the mizzen-top aimed his gun at Nelson.
On the rear of success, turned to Captain Hardy was left to Nelson to give an order when Nelson fell, mortally wounded. Immediately, Hardy, a sergeant and two soldiers, marines, rushed to meet it. Nelson was then introduced into the cockpit, where he directed that his face should be covered with a handkerchief so that it can be recognized.
Meanwhile, best marksmen of terror have killed 40 officers and men, to destroy as the French, for the upper deck, but clear all the dead and wounded, tried to board. This company has cost them dear. A whistle boatswain pipeline, "boarders to repel boarders, and order immediately called clouds of smoky blue jackets on deck, where they killed all the men who managed to board the victory.
Below deck, the life of Nelson is now escape quickly. But he was still alive when Hardy returned from the fighting at the top to let her know that 14 enemy ships are provided in "Very well," said Nelson, "but I bargained for 20." He lingered a little longer. After a few muttered inarticulate words, he said clearly: "I did my duty. I thank God for that! "
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