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Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Part of World War I

Russian battleship Slava, circa 1915
Date8–20 August 1915
Location
Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea
Result Entente victory
Belligerents
  • Battle of the Gulf of Riga Russia
    • Russian Empire Imperial Navy
Battle of the Gulf of Riga United Kingdom
  • Battle of the Gulf of Riga Germany
    • German Empire Imperial Navy
Commanders and leaders
Battle of the Gulf of Riga Vice-Adm. Vasily Kanin
Battle of the Gulf of Riga Capt. 1st rank Pyotr Trukhachyov
Battle of the Gulf of Riga Counter Adm. Andrey Maximov
Battle of the Gulf of Riga Ehrhard Schmidt
Strength
1 battleship
1 armoured cruiser
16 destroyers
4 gunboats
1 minelayer
6 submarines
4 battleships
3 battlecruisers
1 armoured cruiser
5 light cruisers
56 torpedo boats
14 minesweepers
Casualties and losses
150 killed, wounded and captured
2 gunboats sunk
1 battleship damaged
1 destroyer damaged
65 killed and wounded
1 torpedo boat sunk
2 minesweepers sunk
1 battlecruiser damaged

The Battle of the Gulf of Riga was a World War I naval operation of the German High Seas Fleet against the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea in August 1915. The operation's objective was to destroy the Russian naval forces in the Gulf in preparation for landing German troops to facilitate the fall of Riga in the later stages of the Central Powers' offensive on the Eastern Front in 1915. The German fleet, however, failed to achieve its objective and was forced to return to its bases; Riga remained in Russian hands until it fell to the German Army on 1 September 1917.

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