The Battle of Lemnos (January 5-18, 1913) was a naval battle during the First Balkan War. January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The French battleship Orient burns, 1 August 1798, during the Battle of the Nile A naval battle is a battle fought using ships or other waterborne vessels. ... The region and battle places For more background on this topic, see Balkan Wars. ...

Before the battle

Following the loss of a number of Aegean Islands to Greece during the first phase of the war in 1912, the Ottoman navy sought to check Greek progress by destroying the Greek fleet docked at the port of Moudros, Lemnos. The plan of action was to bait the Greek fleet into leaving the safety of the port and to ambush it just off the southern coast of the island where the Ottoman navy lay in wait. Despite the sinking of a Greek transport ship off the island of Syros on January 1, 1913, the Greek navy, having realised the Turkish trap, was not enticed into sailing out of its port. This is a list of some of the 3000 islands of Greece: Chrysi Crete Dia Euboea Gavdos Koufonisi Ydra The Cyclades Amorgos Anafi Andros Antiparos Anydro Delos Donoussa Folegandros Gyaros Ios Irakleia Kea Keros Kimolos Kithnos Makronisos Milos Mykonos (Mikonos) Naxos Paros Pholegandros Santorini (also called Thira) Serifos Sifnos Sikinos... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Lemnos (mod. ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, tone, style, and voice). ...

Having unsettled the Turks with its apparent inactivity, the Greek fleet slipped out of Moudros on January 5th and engaged the Ottoman fleet 12 miles south east of Lemnos where a running sea battle which culminated on January 18th took place. Lemnos (mod. ...

Battle

The Greek fleet, led by Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis was composed of its 9,960 ton armored cruiser flagship Averof, three coast defense battleships and eight destroyers. While the Ottoman flotilla included the pre-dreadnought battleships Hayreddin Barbarossa and Turgut Reis, the battleships Mesudiye and Assari Tevfik, thirteen destroyers and torpedo ships. Following a three-hour gunnery exchange on the morning of January 18th the Turkish fleet, having sustained heavy damage, fled and was subsequently pursued and harried by the Greek ships all the way back to straits of the Dardanelles. Admiral Kountouriotis Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis (1855-1935) (Greek: Παύλος Κουντουριώτης) was an acclaimed Greek military man, and twice the President of Greece. ... Armored cruiser General-Admiral (1873) Armored cruiser USS Brooklyn (1898) Armored cruiser HMS Good Hope (1901) Armored cruiser SMS Blücher (1908) The armored cruiser was a naval cruiser protected by armor on its sides as well as on the decks and gun positions. ... The HS Georgios Averof (Greek ΠΝ Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ) was a Greek cruiser which served as the flagship of the Hellenic Navy during the Balkan Wars. ... HMS Victory in 1884 Battleship was — from the 15th century until the mid-20th century — the name given to the most heavily gun-armed, most heavily armored, most powerful and most effective class of warship, at any particular time. ... USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). ... HMS Victory in 1884 Battleship was — from the 15th century until the mid-20th century — the name given to the most heavily gun-armed, most heavily armored, most powerful and most effective class of warship, at any particular time. ...

This, the final naval battle of the First Balkan War, forced the Ottoman navy to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war. The region and battle places For more background on this topic, see Balkan Wars. ... The Dardanelles (Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı), formerly Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara. ...

Use of aircraft

The withdrawal of the Turkish fleet to within the Dardanelles was confirmed by 1st Lieutenat Michael Moutoussis and Ensign Aristedes Moraitines on January 24, 1913 who conducted the first ever wartime naval aviation mission, flying their Maurice Farman hydroplane over the Nagara point where they spotted the enemy fleet. During their sortie, they accurately drew a diagram of the positions of the retreating fleet, against which they successfully managed to drop four bombs. Moutoussis and Moraitines travelled over 180km and took 2 hours 20 minutes to complete their mission, which was extensively reported in both the Greek and International Press. Sortie is a term for deployment of aircraft or ships for the purposes of a specific mission. ...