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Battle of Havana (1870)
The Battle of Havana on 9 November 1870 was a single ship action between the German gunboat and the French aviso ''Bouvet'' off the coast of Havana, Cuba during the Franco-Prussian War.
At 8 a.m. on November 7 the ''Meteor'' arrived in Havana harbour after leaving Nassau some days before. An hour later the French aviso ''Bouvet'' arrived from Martinique, steaming in from the opposite direction. The next day the French mail steamer SS ''Nouveau Monde'' left the harbour for Veracruz but was forced to return a few hours later due to fears that she would be captured by the Prussian gunboat. Later that day the ''Meteors captain, issued a formal challenge to the captain of the ''Bouvet'' to fight a battle the next day. The ''Bouvet'' accepted and steamed out of the harbour to wait for the ''Meteor''. The ''Meteor'' had to wait 24 hours before it could meet the French vessel due to neutrality laws, since Spain was a neutral country during the conflict.
Upon the end of the 24 hour waiting period, the ''Meteor'' steamed out to meet the ''Bouvet'' which had been waiting off the border of the Cuban territorial sea. As soon as ''Meteor'' had passed the border line, ''Bouvet'' opened fire on the German gunboat. The battle came to an inconclusive end when the ''Bouvet'', which had closed the range in an attempt to board the ''Meteor'', suffered damage to a steam pipe which knocked out her propulsion and was forced to retreat into neutral waters under sail, whereupon she came under the protection of Spain once again. Neither ship was permanently disabled, mostly suffering damage to masts and rigging (the ''Bouvets boilers and machinery remaining intact and functioning) and very few killed and injured on either side. The battle was not considered significant by commentators of the day.
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