Battle off Gloria Regis
| Battle off Gloria Regis | |||||
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| Part of Deadoran War | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 Vionna-Frankenlisch |
Allies of Virtue  Shrailleen | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Admiral Alfred Longstaff |
 Admiral Hiram Tophek | ||||
| Units involved | |||||
| Imperial Reserve Fleet | |||||
| Strength | |||||
| 2 battleships, 2 battlecruisers, 6 cruisers, 14 destroyers |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 12 destroyers sunk, 1,200 killed and captured | 3 destroyers sunk, 4 submarines sunk | ||||
The Battle off Gloria Regis was a naval battle of the Deadoran War fought between forces of navies of Vionna-Frankenlisch and the Allies. The Imperial Reserve Fleet of Vionna-Frankenlisch was intercepted and defeated by naval forces of New Edom and Shrailleen. Despite possessing a superiority in capital ships, the fleet of Admiral Alfred Longstaff was outmanouvred by the Edomite fleet of Admiral Hiram Tophek and the Shrailleeni Gloria Regis Fleet. In an action which lasted from dusk until midnight, the light squadrons of Longstaff's fleet were almost entirely destroyed while his cruisers and capital ships successfully escaped under cover of darkness. The defeat was a major embarrassment in Frankenlisch but did not contribute heavily to the outcome of the war, which was mostly decided on land.
Though defeated heavily with the vast majority of his destroyers sunk, Admiral Longstaff was exonerated by a Board of Inquiry in recognition of the tough position he had been placed in and his success in withdrawing his cruisers and capital ships. Longstaff returned to command of the Reserve Fleet. Bernado Codarno, Marchese de Sandorligo, a prominent Marienberger nobleman, was found to have supposedly been killed by the Edomites following his capture in the action. Though uncomfirmed, the rumour aroused significant controversy in the Imperial Princedom of Marienberg.