Naval warfare in the Third Chryse War

Naval warfare in the Third Chryse War involved direct combat between the Górskan Federal Navy and the Navy of the Syaran Republic throughout the Sundering and Syaran Seas. Compared to the relatively static, slow moving pace of operations on the island of Chryse itself, the war at sea involved multiple large scale decisive operations. Both Górska and the Republic of Syara began the war with similar numbers of warships, but by the end of the conflict the Syaran Navy had decisively defeated the Federal Navy and crippled its strategic capabilities. Despite this, the Syarans were unable to leverage their victories at sea enough to impact the outcome of the fighting on Chryse before the conflict came to an end.

The naval campaigns of the Third Chryse War effectively marked the end of an era for warship design. The introduction of the HMS Eerika Waterly-Davion-class dreadnought battleships three years prior marked a revolution in battleship design that would render the vast fleets of pre-dreadnoughts and ironclad warships obsolete. Although the Syarans had begun construction of their own dreadnought design before the start of the war, it was not finished in time to see service in the conflict. The Third Chryse War was therefore the last major naval war to be fought wholly with pre-dreadnought battleships, while the major fleet actions in the Sundering Sea would foreshadow the Divide War a decade later.