Battle of Cape Alava
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| Battle of Cape Alava | |||||||
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| Part of the Atmoran Campaign of the Third Voshan War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Atmoran Confederation Mizuhese Royalists |
 Atmoran Republic | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Jan-Pieter van Hossen Maurits Sievering† Sietse Priem van Morrenhof |
 Herman Buitenhuis Boudewijn van Liedenbaum | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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Total: 53 warships 2 aircraft carriers 6 battleships 4 battlecruisers 5 heavy cruisers 9 light cruisers 27 destroyers c. 210 carrier aircraft |
Total: 56 warships 1 aircraft carriers 2 battleships 3 battlecruisers 4 heavy cruisers 6 light cruisers 23 destroyers 17 Corvettes c. 86 carrier aircraft | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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3 battleships sunk 1 battlecruiser sunk 2 heavy cruisers sunk 1 light cruiser sunk 8 destroyers sunk 76 aircraft destroyed 5,678 killed |
1 aircraft carrier 2 battleships sunk 2 battlecruiser sunk 3 heavy cruisers sunk 4 light cruiser sunk 7 destroyers sunk 8 corvettes sunk 47 aircraft destroyed 4.971 killed | ||||||
The Battle of Cape Alava (Dutch: Slag bij Kaap Alava) was a naval battle off the coast of Cape Alava in which High Queen Katherine I and her staff fled from Westend evacuating to Asvarre. The battle was marked by a series of royalist last stands against Rijkskrijgsmarine Admiral Herman Buitenhuis's Atmoran Home Fleet. Such as Kaptein-ter-Zee Floris-Jan Fortuin made a last stand by ramming battleship RMS Graaf Moltke along with sinking light cruisers RMS Asperen, RMS Arnemuiden, and RMS Blauwenhoek. Admiral Prince Jan-Pieter van Hossen's Atmoran Royalist Fleet succesfully crossed the Halkeginian Sea allowing the formation of the Free Atmoran Forces.
Prelude
Battle
Aftermath
Survival of the royalists
Order of battle
Royalists
- Grootadmiraal Jan-Pieter prins van Hossen
- Four battleships: HMS Henrietta de Grote, HMS Triomfantelijk, HMS Frederik IV, HMS Prinsesse Winter
- Three heavy cruisers: HMS Vineta, HMS Draak, and HMS Groote Liefde
- Nine destroyers:
- Admiraal Sietse Priem van Morrenhof
- Two aircraft carriers: HMS Invencible and HMS Onverzoenlijk
- Two battlecruisers: HMS Prins van Wolf and HMS Zegepralend
- Ten destroyers:
- Schout-bij-nacht Maurits Sievering
- Two battlecruisers: HMS Leeuw and HMS Héroïne
- Four destroyers: HMS Thies Salvera, HMS Reinalda, HMS De Ridder, HMS Mathies Veltmans
- Schout-bij-nacht Hendrik K.G. Geursen
- Two battlecruisers:
- Four destroyers:
- Schout-bij-nacht Matsuzaki Yoshimune
- Two heavy cruisers: HMMS Saien and HMMS Tsugaru
- Four light cruisers: HMMS Yura, HMMS Isuzu, HMMS Jintsu, and HMMS Takasago
- Schout-bij-nacht Michiel Wietten
- Five light cruisers:
Republicans
- Admiraal Herman Buitenhuis
- Two battleships: RMS Walchmarken and RMS Voorhoede
- Nine destroyers:
- Admiraal Boudewijn van Liedenbaum
- One aircraft carrier:
- Two heavy cruisers:
- Five destroyers:
- Viceadmiraal Chiel Vinkers
- Three battlecruisers:
- Six destroyers:
- Schout-bij-nacht Reinier ten Hermsel
- Two heavy cruisers:
- Four light cruisers:
- Schout-bij-nacht Lourens van Dorland
- Two light cruisers:
- Three destroyers:
- Two corvettes:
- Commandeur Jeroen Wastenecker
- Seven corvettes:
- Commandeur Barend Willemse
- Eight corvettes: