Defense of Convoy MGX-1403

Conflict	Havenite Operation Perseus - First Havenite-Manticoran War
Date	1905 PD
Place	Deep space grav wave between Manticore and Grendelsbane
Result	Havenite minor victory

Combatants

a convoy escort of
the Royal Manticoran Navy

People's Navy
Cruiser Squadron 9

Commanders

Capt. (JG) Zilwicki

Cdre Reichman

Strength

2 CL
3 DD

6 CA

Casualties

all warships destroyed

3 CA destroyed
1 CA damaged

Before the official declaration of war a convoy of three freighters and two freighter-transports^[1] was sent for Grendelsbane Station. The cargo was machine tools, shipyard mechs and remotes and over six thousand technicians and their families.^[2] During a passage along some grav wave the convoy was ambushed by Havenite cruisers, hidden in a grav wave bubble. The RMN escort lost all its ships, but convoyed ships managed to escape. (HH3, CS3)

Order of battle[]

Royal Manticoran Navy[]

Commanding Officer – Captain (JG) Helen Zilwicki

cruiser element, including Captain Zilwicki’s unit
destroyer element, including HMS Hotspur, Lieutenant Commander McAllister commanding

People's Navy[]

Cruiser Squadron 9 - Commanding Officer - Commodore Annette Reichman

including PNS Sword - Captain Thomas Theisman commanding

References[]

↑ Including Carnarvon.
↑ Including Capt. Anton Zilwicki and his daughter Helen Zilwicki.

Operations of the First Havenite-Manticoran War
Perseus \| Allied Counteroffensive 1905 \| Allied 6th Fleet Offensive \| Mangonel \| Stalking Horse \| Dagger \| Commerce Raiding in Silesia \| Cerberus System \| Icarus \| Scylla \| Bagration \| Buttercup
Battles of the First Havenite-Manticoran War
Talbot \| Poicters \| Casca \| MGX-1403 \| Yalta \| Air \| Seaford Nine Ambush \| First Hancock \| First Seaford Nine \| Third Yeltsin \| Chelsea and Mendoza \| Samson \| First Nightingale \| First Minette \| Slocum \| Fourth Yeltsin \| Candor \| Second Minette \| Second Nightingale \| Tyler's Star \| Schiller \| Selker Rift \| First Seabring \| Second Seabring \| Trevor's Star \| Micah \| First Adler \| Second Adler \| Third Adler \| Second Hancock \| Second Seaford Nine \| First Zanzibar \| First Alizon \| Second Basilisk \| Third Seabring \| Cerberus \| Elric \| Solway and Treadway \| Barnett \| MacGregor \| Hyacinth

[1] Including Carnarvon.

[2] Including Capt. Anton Zilwicki and his daughter Helen Zilwicki.

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