Battle of Moon Sound [SEP] end time
Battle of Moon Sound
The Battle of Moon Sound was a naval battle fought between the forces of the German Empire, and the then Russian Republic (and three British submarines) in the Baltic Sea from 16 October 1917 until 3 November 1917 during World War I. The German intention was to destroy the Russian forces and occupy the West Estonian Archipelago. The Imperial German Navy had 1 battlecruiser, 10 battleships, 9 light cruisers, 1 mine cruiser, 50 destroyers and 6 submarines while the Russians had only 2 pre-dreadnoughts,
), the highest military decoration of the Russian Empire.
After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the wreckage of "Korietz" was raised by Japanese engineers, and scrapped.
Second gunboat.
There was a second gunboat named "Korietz", laid down in 1906 at the Putilov Plant in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was of the "Gilyak" class. At the end of the First World War she participated in the Battle of Moon Sound, but was blown up by her crew on