18 August 1919: British Royal Navy Coastal Motor Boats based in the Björkö Islands in the Gulf of Finland & aeroplanes from the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Vindictive—part of the halfhearted Entente intervention against the Reds—raided the Soviet naval base at Kronstadt, which guarded the approach to Petrograd; the Soviet battleships Petropavlovsk & Andrei Pervozvanny were damaged.
Lest we forget.
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