Battle of Nam Quan

Battle of Nam Quan
	Part of Piracy in Asia
	; A picture of a Chinese junk (left) and a lorcha (right).
Date	May 10, 1855
Location	off Nam Quan, China, South China Sea
Result	Anglo/Chinese victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom; Qing dynasty	Chinese Pirates
Strength
Land:; Unknown number of Chinese civilians; Sea:; 1 sloop-of-war	Land:; ~500 pirates; Sea:; 1 lorcha; 7 war-junks
Casualties and losses
British:; 3 killed; 1 sloop-of-war damaged; Chinese:; unknown	~500 killed or wounded; 3 war-junks sunk; 1 lorcha captured; 4 war-junks captured
	; Several captured merchant ships were present at the battle, all but one were retaken by the British.;

The Battle of Nam Quan was fought in 1853 as part of a British anti-piracy operation in China. A Royal Navy sloop-of-war encountered eight pirate ships near Nam Quan and defeated them in a decisive action with help from armed Chinese civilians on land.

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