| Second Battle of Kirpen Island | |||||||
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| Part of World War I | |||||||
 The Russian destroyer Derzky in the Black Sea. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Russian Empire |
 Ottoman Empire | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3 destroyers | 2 gunboats | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| unknown | 2 gunboats sunk | ||||||
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The Second Battle of Kirpen Island[citation needed], or the Second Battle of Kefken Island[citation needed], was a small naval battle fought during the Black Sea campaign of World War I. On November 29, 1915 the German U-boat SM U-13 was shadowing five Russian merchant ships when she ran aground off the mouth of the Sakarya River. Admiral Wilhelm Souchon, the German commander of the Ottoman Navy sent two gunboats to proceed to the wreck. During the following cruise, the three Russian Derzky class destroyers Derzky, Gnevny and Bespokoiny encountered the gunboats Taşköprü and Yozgat. In the following combat the Russian gunners fired accurately and quickly sank both of the gunboats off Kirpen Island on December 10, 1915.[1][2]
Order of Battle[]
Ottoman Navy:
- Taşköprü, gunboat
- Yozgat, gunboat
Russian Navy:
- Derzky, destroyer
- Gnevny, destroyer
- Bespokoiny, destroyer
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Halpern, Paul G., A Naval History of World War I, Routledge New York (1994), ISBN 1-85728-498-4, p. 237.
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