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Three notable battles, two of which were naval engagements, took place at the island of Lemnos located in north west of the Aegean sea. The first during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807 and the other two during the First Balkan War in 1912 and 1913.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the Russian fleet under Admiral Alexei Seniavin defeated a Turkish fleet in the Aegean Sea near the island of Lemnos.
Forces involved:
Total 750 guns
Total 1200 guns
Ensuing the initiation of hostilities in the First Balkan War, the Greek PM Eleftherios Venizelos ordered the Commander in Chief of the Hellenic Navy Aegean trade routes and ports.
Vital to this plan was the capture of the Turkish held port of Moudros on the southern coast of the island of Lemnos. On the 8th of October 1912 Greek marines landed on the Island and in combination with Naval support defeated the Islands Turkish garrison and occupied the port. Moudros became the base for future Greek naval operations for the rest of the war and the launching pad for the Greek recovery of the Islands of Psara, Imvros, Tenedos, Chios, Lesvos and Samothraki.
Following the loss of a number of Aegean Islands to Greece during the first phase of the war in 1912, the Ottoman navy sought to check Greek progress by destroying the Greek fleet docked at the port of Moudros, Lemnos. The Greek fleet slipped out of Moudros on January 5th 1913 and engaged the Ottoman fleet in a running sea battle which culminated on the January 18th. This, the final naval battle of the First Balkan War, forced the Ottoman navy to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, where it did not venture from for the rest of the war. See: Naval Battle of Lemnos
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