Action of 3 May 1920
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Date3 May 1920
Location
off Ochakov, Black Sea
Result
Soviet victory
| 3 May 1920 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 France |
 Russian SFSR | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1 sloop | 1 floating battery | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 sloop captured | None | ||||||
The action of 3 May 1920 was a short single-ship action fought during the Russian Civil War between the French Navy and the Soviet Russia.
During the Russian Civil War, the French Navy was engaged as part of the Allied Intervention providing assistance to the White faction engaged on the Southern Front. The French Navy suffered a mutiny in 1919 but operations were carried until the end of the conflict.