A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions.
Chincha Islands War
1865 November 26 - Battle of Papudo - Chilean corvette Esmeralda captures Spanish gunboat Virgen de Covadonga
1866 August 22 - Spanish frigate Gerona captures Chilean cruiser Pampero. (details)
1879 May 21 Battle of Iquique - Peruvian monitor Huáscar sinks Chilean corvette Esmeralda
1879 May 21 Battle of Punta Gruesa - Chilean schooner Covadonga defeats Peruvian ironclad Independencia
1870 November 7 - French aviso Bouvet fights German gunboat Meteor off Havana
1898 April 25 - Spanish gunboat Ligera repulses an attack by American torpedo boat USS Foote (details)
1914 March 31 - Huertistas gunboat Guerrero sinks Constitutionalist gunboat Tampico at the Third Battle of Topolobampo
1914 June 16 - Huertistas gunboat Guerrero sinks Constitutionalist gunboat Tampico at the Fourth Battle of Topolobampo
1914 August 26 - British cruiser Highflyer defeats German auxiliary cruiser SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in the Battle of Río de Oro
1914 September 14 - British armed merchantman HMS Carmania sinks German auxiliary cruiser SMS Cap Trafalgar in an engagement off Trindade Island in the South Atlantic
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 SMS Königsberg attacks and sinks the British cruiser HMS Pegasus while it is in harbour for repairs.
1914 November 9 - HMAS Sydney defeats SMS Emden in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 March 10 - German auxiliary cruiser SMS Möwe sinks New Zealand freighter Otaki but is seriously damaged
1940 November 5 - German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer sinks convoy escort armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay in the North Atlantic.
1940 November 9 - the Free French aviso Savorgnan de Brazza sinks her sister ship, Vichy French aviso Bougainville, off Libreville
1941 February 27 - HMNZS Leander sinks Italian auxiliary cruiser Ramb I in a brief engagement off the Maldives
1941 April 4 - German auxiliary cruiser Thor sinks British armed merchant cruiser HMS Voltaire in an engagement 1,200 kilometres (650 nmi) off the Cape Verde islands. (details)
1941 May 8 - the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall sinks German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin. in an engagement off the Seychelles
1941 November 19 - the battle between the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran near Western Australia results in the loss of both ships.
1942 June 6 - German auxiliary cruiser Stier sinks the tanker SS Stanvac Calcutta in the South Atlantic.
1942 September 27 - German auxiliary cruiser Stier and American Liberty ship SS Stephen Hopkins sink each other in the South Atlantic.
1943 October 31-November 1 - USS Borie and U-405 engage in a pitched battle ending with Borie ramming the submarine. Both ships are lost.
1941 July 25 - Ecuadorian gunboat Abdón Calderón duels inconclusively with Peruvian destroyer Almirante Villar off Jambeli
1950 June 25 - ROKS Baekdusan sinks a North Korean troop transport
1950 September 10 - ROKS PC-703 sinks North Korean minelayer
1968 March 1 - USCGC Winona sinks North Vietnamese naval trawler T-A
2003 March 10 - SLNS Sayura sinks LTTE logistic vessel MV Koimer off Mullaitivu
18 November 2008 - INS Taber sinks the trawler Ekawat Nava 5 which had been captured by Somali pirates.
28 January 2011 - INS Cankarso sinks Somali pirate trawler Prantalay 14 off Minicoy Island. (details)
12 May 2011 - USS Stephen W. Groves sinks Somali pirate longliner Jih Chun Tsai 68 in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.
12 May 2011 - HDMS Esbern Snare sinks Somali pirate dhow NN Iran
12 January 2012 - SPS Patiño captures a Somali pirate skiff
List of single-ship actions Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
