Global InformationCorfu Channel incident information
| Corfu Channel incident | |||||||
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| Part of the Cold War | |||||||
 Corfu Channel Incident | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Albania |
 United Kingdom | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Enver Hoxha Mehmet Shehu |
Winston Churchill Clement Attlee | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
 Albanian Naval Force |
 Royal Navy | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| none |
84 killed 42 wounded 2 destroyers damaged (one of them beyond repair) | ||||||
The Corfu Channel incident consists of three separate events involving Royal Navy ships in the Channel of Corfu which took place in 1946, and it is considered an early episode of the Cold War.[1][4][5][6][7] During the first incident, Royal Navy ships came under fire from Albanian fortifications.[4] The second incident involved Royal Navy ships striking mines; and the third occurred when the Royal Navy conducted mine-clearing operations in the Corfu Channel, but in Albanian territorial waters,[1] and Albania complained about them to the United Nations.[4]
This series of incidents led to the Corfu Channel case, where the United Kingdom brought a case against the People's Republic of Albania to the International Court of Justice.[8] The Court rendered a decision under which Albania was to pay £844,000 to the United Kingdom.[6][9] This is equivalent to £37.7 million in 2015 terms.[10] Because of the incidents, Britain, in 1946, broke off talks with Albania aimed at establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries. Diplomatic relations were only restored in 1991.[11]
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- ^ Times Online Obituary: Lieutenant-Commander Hugh Knollys Navigator who won a DSC on D-Day and survived when his destroyer hit a mine in the postwar Corfu Channel incident.
- ^ a b Roselli, Alessandro (2006). Italy and Albania: financial relations in the Fascist period. I.B. Tauris. pp. 136–137. ISBN 9781845112547. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ Waibel, Michael, (2012) ‘Corfu Channel Case’ in Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, vol III (Oxford University Press 2012), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1919599
- ^ JSTOR The Corfu Channel Case Quincy Wright The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, No. 3 (July 1949), pp. 491–494 (article consists of 4 pages) Published by: American Society of International Law Retrieved 31-07-08
- ^ "Corfu Channel (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Albania)". International Court of Justice. 30 September 1947 – 15 December 1949. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
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