page_title: Gulf of Riga campaign
section_title: August Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Gulf of Riga campaign / August Operations
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Sowjetischer Zerstörer Stalin, zuvor Zerstörer des Zarenreichs Samson, Orfey-Klasse English: Soviet destroyer Stalin, former Imperial Russian destroyer Samson, Orfey class. Русский: Советский эскадренный миноносец Сталин, бывший Самсон, типа Орфей.
context_page_description: The Gulf of Riga campaign was fought by the Soviet Navy against the Kriegsmarine during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
context_section_description: At the beginning of August, Germans were still laying mines in the Irben Straits. On 1 August, Soviet motor torpedo boats attempted an attack, covered by two destroyers, against S-boats off Cape Domesnas but they only lost the motor torpedo boat TK-122 in the process. Between 6 and 8 August, the destroyers Surovy and Statny shelled German coastal artillery batteries in the Moon Sound. On 17 August however, four Soviet motor torpedo boats attacked off Cape Domesnas again; and during the engagement the German minesweeper M-1707 Lunenburg was first shelled by Soviet ground artillery and then strayed into mines and sank.
  Three days laters Germans retaliated when S-58 torpedoed and sank the Soviet minesweeper T-51 Pirmunas in the Moon Sound. The final Soviet destroyer action occurred on 21 August when the destroyers Artyom and Surovy made an unsuccessful attack against a convoy: they managed to force the only escort unit, the auxiliary gunboat SAT-1 Ost, to run aground (later recovered) but this prevented damages to the convoy.
caption: Destroyer Stalin, sister-ship of Artem
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