Action of 3 May 1920
3 May 1920 | |||||||
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Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
France | Russian SFSR | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
1 sloop | 1 floating battery | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1 sloop surrendered | none |
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- t
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of the Russian Civil War
- 1917
- 1st Kharkiv
- 1918
- Mughan
- Shamkhor
- Donbas-Don
- 1st Kiev
- Ice March
- Steppe March
- Iași–Don
- March Days
- 1st Crimea
- Transcaucasia
- Kuban
- Goychay
- Sochi
- Tsaritsyn
- Kurdamir
- Livny
- Baku
- Dibrivka
- Allied intervention
- 1919
- Voronezh–Povorino
- Katerynoslav March
- Northern Caucasus
- Ukraine
- 2nd Kiev
- Khotyn Uprising
- 1st Donbas
- Hryhoriv Uprising
- Binagadi
- Chapan rebellion
- Vyoshenskaya Uprising
- Alexandrovsky Fort
- Bender Uprising
- Odesa
- 2nd Kharkiv
- Mamontov Raid
- Southern Front counteroffensive
- 3rd Kiev
- Perehonivka
- Advance on Moscow
- Nizhyn–Poltava
- Orel–Kursk
- Voronezh–Kastornoye
- Khopyor–Don
- Pavlohrad–Katerynoslav
- 3rd Kharkiv
- 4th Kiev
- 2nd Donbas
- 1920
- Rostov–Novocherkassk
- Odesa
- North Caucasus
- Novorossiysk
- Azerbaijan
- Ochakov
- Anzali
- Lankaran
- Ulagay's Landing
- Obytichnyi Spit
- Armenia
- Northern Taurida
- Dagestan uprising
- Tambov Rebellion
- Perekop–Chonhar
- 2nd Crimea
- Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict
- 1921
The action of 3 May 1920 was a short single-ship action fought during the Russian Civil War between the French Navy and the Soviet Russia.
Background
During the Russian Civil War, the French Navy was engaged as part of the Allied Intervention providing assistance to the White faction engaged on the Southern Front. The French Navy suffered a mutiny in 1919 but operations were carried until the end of the conflict.
Action
According to French sources, the French sloop (avisos) Le Scarpe imprudently advanced into the territorial waters of the red Russia near Novorossiysk during a routine patrol in the Black Sea.[1] The Captain wanted to sail to Nikolaiev to collect information about procuring supplies.[2] The French ship encountered the Soviet floating battery Krasnaya Zarya near Ochakov; during the subsequent fight she was damaged and surrendered. This happened near the end of the Russian Civil War, and the ship was soon returned.
References
External links
- [1] Archived 2018-05-02 at the Wayback Machine