What the records say
- When
- 16 Aug 1914
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 42.10° N, 19.05° E
- Description
- 1914 battle of World War I
- Naval
- yes
- War
- World War I
Battle of Antivari
1914 sea battle of World War I
The Battle of Antivari or Action off Antivari was a naval engagement between a large fleet of French and British warships and two ships of the Austro-Hungarian navy at the start of the First World War. The old Austrian protected cruiser SMS Zenta and the destroyer SMS Ulan were blockading the Montenegrin port of Antivari, when on 16 August 1914, they were surprised and cut off by a large Anglo-French force that had s…
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “combat d’Antivari en mer Adriatique”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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