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Battle of Ponza
Part of War of the Sicilian Vespers
Date 14 June 1300
Location
near Naples, present-day Italy
Result Aragonese–Angevin victory
Belligerents
Armas del soberano de Aragón.svg Crown of Aragon
Royal Arms of England.svg Angevin Empire
Aragon-Sicily Arms.svg Sicily
Commanders and leaders
Roger of Lauria Conrad d'Oria
Strength
59 galleys 32 galleys
Casualties and losses
Unknown 26 galleys captured

The naval Battle of Ponza took place on 14 June 1300 near the islands of Ponza and Zannone, in the Gulf of Gaeta (north-west of Naples), when a galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated an Aragonese-Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Conrad d'Oria.

Lauria's 40 Angevin galleys were at Naples when 32 Sicilian galleys under d'Oria arrived and challenged him to come out. For the first time he refused, probably because of a lack of confidence in his Angevin crews, and d'Oria ravaged some offshore islands. This allowed 12 Apulian galleys to arrive from the south and seven Genoese galleys to arrive also, and join Lauria's fleet, making 59 galleys. Now Lauria emerged and found the Sicilians near Zannone Island to the west. After d'Oria dismissed a suggestion to retreat, he tried a quick attack on Lauria's flag-galley and the banner-carrying galleys, his own galley running alongside Lauria's, "head to toe", and Lauria's crew suffered even though his galley couldn't be boarded. One Sicilian galley fled after capturing one of Lauria's galleys, and it was followed by six more. Five Genoese Ghibelline galleys held back, awaiting fortune, and 18-29 (two sources give 28, but this adds up to too many) Sicilian galleys were captured, d'Oria's being the last to surrender (when Lauria threatened to burn it).

Ships involved

Aragonese and Angevin

  • 40 Angevin (Regicolae) galleys
  • 12 Apulian galleys
  • 7 Genoese (Grimaldi) galleys

Sicilian

  • 32 galleys - about 26 captured

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Batalla de Ponza (1300) para niños

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