British campaign in the Baltic (1918–1919)
The British campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The codename of the Royal Navy campaign was Operation Red Trek. The intervention played a key role in enabling the establishment of the independent states of Estonia and Latvia. It failed to secure the control of Petrograd by White Russian forces, which was one of the main goals of the campaign.
| Baltic Naval War | |||||||||
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| Part of Russian Civil War, Estonian War of Independence, Latvian War of Independence | |||||||||
British squadron in Koporye Bay in October 1919 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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United Kingdom Estonia Latvia White movement | Russian SFSR | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair Walter Cowan Augustus Agar Johan Pitka |
Nikolai Kuzmin Fyodor Raskolnikov (POW) Sergey Zarubayev Alexander Zelenoy Lev Galler | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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: 1 aircraft carrier 1 monitor 23 light cruisers 85 destroyers 20 submarines 2 minelayers 18 minesweepers 10 coastal motor boats 4 depot ships : 2 destroyers 1 gunboat |
2 battleships 1 pre-dreadnought 1 cruiser 17 destroyers 7 submarines 3 minelayers 9 minesweepers 2 depot ships | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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: 111-128 killed at least 60 wounded 9 captured 1 cruiser sunk 2 destroyers sunk 1 submarine sunk 2 minesweepers sunk 8 coastal motor boats sunk or stranded 1 destroyer damaged 7 other ships lost 60 other ships damaged : 23 killed 3 missing 1 icebreaker-tug sunk |
at least 483 killed 251 captured 1 battleship damaged 1 pre-dreadnought damaged 1 cruiser sunk 3 destroyers sunk 2 destroyers captured 1 submarine damaged 1 minesweeper defected 1 depot ship sunk | ||||||||
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