The British campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The codename of the Royal Navy campaign was Operation Red Trek. The intervention played a k
British squadron in Koporye Bay in October 1919
A plane ditched alongside HMS Vindictive after returning from air raid, Baltic Sea, 1919
British sailors in Liepāja
British ships in Liepāja
Raid on Kronstadt
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The raid on Kronstadt was an attack by Royal Navy coastal motor boats and Royal Air Force aircraft on the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet at its home base on 18 August 1919. After the Allied intervention in th
British campaign in the Baltic (1918–1919)
…gun and torpedo boats as well as motor minesweepers to Björkö. A flotilla of British Coastal Motor Boats under the command of Lieutenant Augustus Agar raided Kronstadt Harbour twice, sinking the cruiser Oleg and the depot ship Pamiat Azova on 17 June as well as damaging the battleships Petropavlovsk and Andrei Pervozvanny in…
Two CMBs, a two-torpedo version (foreground) and single-torpedo version (rear)
Plans of a 55ft CMB
Wreckage of the Pamiat Azova