Black Sea Fleet

Fleet · Russian Empire · from May 13, 1783

Pavel Nakhimov's sailing fleet, which won at Sinop and was then scuttled to block Sevastopol harbour.

August 24, 1787 – January 9, 1792 Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
September 8–9, 1790 Battle of Tendra
December 22, 1790 Siege of Izmail
October 16, 1853 – November 20, 1853 Based at Sevastopol Map
October 16, 1853 – March 30, 1856 Crimean War
November 30, 1853 Battle of Sinop Destroys the Ottoman squadron Map
December 5, 1853 – September 9, 1855 Back at Sevastopol; ships scuttled as blockships from September 1854 Map
July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
November 18, 1914 Battle of Cape Sarych
November 7, 1917 – June 16, 1923 Russian Civil War
September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
October 18, 1941 – July 4, 1942 Crimean campaign
October 30, 1941 – July 4, 1942 Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
December 26, 1941 – May 19, 1942 Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
May 1942 Operation Bustard Hunt
April 8 – May 12, 1944 Crimean offensive
August 7–16, 2008 Russo-Georgian War
August 9–10, 2008 Battle off the coast of Abkhazia
February 20, 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War
September 30, 2015 – December 8, 2024 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war
February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine