Battle of Nam Quan | |||||||
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Part of Piracy in Asia | |||||||
![]() A picture of a Chinese junk (left) and a lorcha (right). | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() Qing dynasty | Chinese Pirates | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Land: Unknown number of Chinese civilians Sea: 1 sloop-of-war |
Land: ~500 pirates Sea: 1 lorcha 7 war-junks | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
British: 3 killed 1 sloop-of-war damaged Chinese: unknown |
~500 killed or wounded 3 war-junks sunk 1 lorcha captured 4 war-junks captured | ||||||
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The Battle of Nam Quan was fought in 1853 as part of a British anti-piracy operation in China. A Royal Navy sloop-of-war encountered eight pirate ships near Nam Quan and defeated them in a decisive action with help from armed Chinese civilians on land.[1]