Battle of Grengam
Part of Great Northern War
The Bringing of four Swedish frigates into St. Petersburg after the victory in the Battle of Grengam.
Date July 27, 1720 Location Near Granhamn Island [1], Sweden Result Swedish victory. Halted Russian naval operations in the Baltic waters until the end of the war.
Belligerents
Sweden	Russia
Commanders
Vice-Admiral Eric Sjöblad	Admiral Mikhail Galitzine
Strength
Ship of the line 4 frigates 9 smaller craft 1,000+ soldiers	61 galleys 25 boats 11,000+ soldiers
Casualties and losses
103 K.I.A. 407 P.O.W.	82 K.I.A. 203 W.I.A.

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Four Swedish line-of-battle ships were captured by the Russian navy. The Swedish 34-gun frigate Stor Phoenix, the 30-gun Vainqueur, the 22-gun Kiskin and the 18-gun Danska Orn were all taken captive. 43 Russian galleys, out of 61, were either sunk by the Swedish force (1 ship-of-the-line, 6 frigates and some smaller crafts) or burnt and abandoned after the battle. The Swedish admiral Eric Siöblad was first critisized after the battle, but when the scope of the Russian losses were discovered he was praised. Russia celebrated the battle as a victory, but their fleet was unable to launch effective operations until the end of the war in 1721. British and Danish ships in line of battle at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801). ...

Like the previous Battle of Gangut, the Battle of Grengam was fought on Saint Pantaleon Day. In order to commemorate the victory, a timber church to this saint was built in St. Petersburg in 1722. It was rebuilt in stone in 1735-39. The facade of the church bears (since 1914) two marble plaques listing the ships and regiments that fought at Gangut and Grengam. The naval Battle of Gangut took place on July 27, 1714 during the Great Northern War, in the waters north of the Hanko Peninsula, near the site of the modern-day city of Hanko, Finland, between the Swedish Navy and Imperial Russian Navy. ... Saint Pantaleon (Panteleimon), counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletian persecution of 303 AD. According to the martyrologies, Pantaleon was the son of a rich... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...

References

• (Russian) Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Grengam
• George Bruce. Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles. (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981) (ISBN 0-442-22336-6).

Gunnar Unger (1923). Illustrerad svensk sjökrigshistoria, omfattande tiden 1680-1814. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag.

Church of St. Pantaleon in St. Petersburg (1735-39).