Trivia!

Which naval battle is known as the first naval battle to be lost by the British Royal Navy since the war of 1812?

 

Ooh, ooh, I know! Pick me, pick me!
After the War of 1812, the British Royal Navy maintained nearly a century of unbroken victory and triumph, until the fateful Navel Battle of Shikishima. The Royal Navy had a long-standing tradition of holding a scone-scarfing competition after the commissioning of battleships built for foreign nations, between the hungriest British sailors present and the crew of whatever ship had just been commissioned. These eating competitions were quite famous within the Royal Navy, and were creatively called the Navel Battle of (the battleship being commissioned). The Empire of Japan, having been shamed in 1897 at the Navel Battles of Fuji and Yashima, decided to include several sumo wrestlers in the crews of their next battleships.
In the afternoon of January 26, 1900, with the honor of the Japan and the battleship Shikishima on the line, Sho-i Ichigo Onaka faced off against Ensign Chester "The Navel" Sturdee over a platter of blueberry scones, three pots of tea, and one napkin. 22 minutes after hostilities commenced, Onaka grabbed his last scone mere seconds before Sturdee reached it, literally snatching victory from the jaws of defeat with 51 scones to Sturdee's 50.
The strategy of including a sumo wrestler in the crew of each battleship was a winner for the Japanese. After losing 3 more Navel Battles, the Royal Navy changed the rules to require a showdown between captains. Admiral Togo cried foul, and the Japanese refused to participate in future eating competitions. Despite the British rule change, the Navel Battle of Shikishima proved a major morale boost to the Japanese, and some historians credit the Navel Battle of Shikishima, rather than the battle of Tsushima Strait, as the point where Britain started treating Japan as a fellow imperial power.

 

Uhm, not exactly what I was looking for!

 

The British suffered quite a few losses in the Crimean War, but most of these were joint army-navy campaigns rather than a pure naval battle. I'd certainly call the sieges of Petropavlovsk and Taganrog losses for the Royal Navy.

 

That's not what I'm looking for. This is a pure naval battle.

 

The only one that I can think of is Hood Vs Bismarck.

 

I know (I think) but since I did one recently I will abstain.

 

It was a long time before Hood vs Bismarck.

HINT: The British commander was RADM Sir Cristopher Craddock.

 

The Battle of Coronel, vs. the German Far East Squadron. the name Craddock gave it away. I still think I should get bonus points for my bogus answer earlier

 

It was an amazing bogus answer.

 

Coronel is the answer!

 

Amazing answer or amazingly bogus?

 

The bogus answer was amazing. The real answer is the real answer.

 

Jutland

 

The British would have had to have lost Jutland in order for that to be right

 

Perhaps he's implying that they did...

But that's a subject for a different thread. Last night I talked with Kotori and mentioned a trivia question. He couldn't come up with an answer last night, so he suggested I post it here in his place.
What does "DK" have to do with combat in the North Sea?
Humorous bogus answers get bonus points.

 

He probably is implying they won. Like you said though, that's a topic for another thread.

 

Don't Know.

 

Apart from being the domain for Denmark, it was Adm. Scheer's radio call sign.

Bogus Answer:

It stand for Don King who arranged the whole event.

 

DK was the name of a ship's mascot. It was a small spider monkey onboard HMS New Zealand, given to the crew by Maori natives, along with a grass skirt, Tiki greenstone, and several other lucky charms during a tour of the ship's namesake island. While many sailors fondly remember the ship's captain wearing the grass skirt at Jutland and Dogger Bank for good luck, they often forget to mention the monkey riding on his shoulder. This was likely due to the monkey's bad habit of stealing photographs from the crew. In one particularly famous incident, DK stole a photograph from the ship's carpenter of his girlfriend Pauline. The thieving monkey fled all over the ship to keep his prize, but ultimately he was cornered in the spotting top of the ship's mainmast, and forced to return the photograph.

PS: Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has repeatedly denied having heard of HMS New Zealand, the monkey DK, or the incident with the carpenter.