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Battle Of LemnosThree notable battles, two of which were naval engagements, took place at the island of Lemnos located in north west of the Aegean sea. The first during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807 and the other two during the First Balkan War in 1912 and 1913. For the Naval Battle of Lemnos (5-18 January 1913), First Balkan War.
The Battle of Athos (Lemnos) took place on 30 June/1 July 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars. Part of the Russian Aegean fleet under Admiral Alexei Seniavin defeated a Turkish fleet in the Aegean Sea NE of the island of Lemnos. The Russians approached in 2 parallel lines of 5 battleships each, turning north to run alongside the Turkish line. Three Turkish ships were forced aground and sunk the next day; the main Turkish fleet retired to the safety of the Dardanelles. On the way they scuttled another battleship and a frigate near Thasos on 4 July, and lost 2 frigates, or a frigate and a sloop, near Samothrace on about 5 July. Ships involved: Russia: Battleships: - 750 guns
First line:
Rafail 84
Selafail 74
Moshtchnyi 74
Tverdyi 74 (flag)
Skoryi
Second line:
Silnyi
Uriil 84
Yaroslav 74
Retvizan 64(flag 2)
Sv. Elena 74
Turkey: Note: many names are uncertain
Battleships: - 850 guns
Masudiya 120 (flag)
Sadd al-bahr 84 (flag 2) - captured 1 July
Anka-yi bahri 84
Taus i bahri 84
Tevfik-numa 84
Bisharet (or Biafaret?) 84 - aground and scuttled 3 July
Kilid-i bahri 84
Sayyad-i bahri 74
Gulbang-i-Nusrat 74
Jebel-andaz 74
Frigates:
Meskeni-ghazi 50
Bedr-i zafar 50
Fakih-i zafar 50
Nessim 50 - aground and scuttled 3 July
Iskenderiya 44
Sloops:
Metelin 32 - aground and scuttled 3 July
Rahbar-i alam 28
Others:
Denyuvet? 32
Alamat i Nusrat 18
Melankai? 18
Total 1200 guns
Ensuing the initiation of hostilities in the First Balkan War, the Greek PM Eleftherios Venizelos ordered the Commander in Chief of the Hellenic Navy Pavlos Kountouriotis to engage the Ottoman fleet in the Aegean Sea and to: (i) Restrict its freedom of operations to the Dardanelles, (ii) Deny the reinforcement of Ottoman forces operating in Macedonia and Thrace by sea, and (iii) Conduct a naval blockade of Ottoman Aegean trade routes and ports. Vital to this plan was the capture of the Turkish held port of Moudros on the southern coast of the island of Lemnos. On the 8th of October 1912 Greek marines landed on the Island and in combination with Naval support defeated the Islands Turkish garrison and occupied the port. Moudros became the base for future Greek naval operations for the rest of the war and the launching pad for the Greek recovery of the Islands of Psara, Imvros, Tenedos, Chios, Lesvos and Samothraki.
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