Battle of the Falkland Islands

8 December 1914, South-east of the Falkland Islands

Decisive British victory

Spee came to raid Port Stanley and found two battlecruisers coaling there, sent south after Coronel. In the long chase that followed, the battlecruisers sank Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while the cruisers hunted down Nürnberg and Leipzig. Spee and both his sons were among about 1,900 German dead. Only Dresden escaped.

Royal Navy

9 ships, none lost

Ship	Type	Outcome
HMS Invincible Sturdee's flagship	Battlecruiser Invincible class	Survived
HMS Inflexible	Battlecruiser Invincible class	Survived
HMS Carnarvon	Armoured cruiser	Survived
HMS Cornwall With Glasgow, sank Leipzig	Armoured cruiser Monmouth class	Survived
HMS Kent Sank Nürnberg	Armoured cruiser Monmouth class	Survived
HMS Glasgow	Light cruiser	Survived
HMS Bristol Sank the colliers	Light cruiser	Survived
HMS Canopus Fired the first shots from the harbour	Pre-dreadnought battleship	Survived
HMS Macedonia With Bristol, sank the colliers	Armed merchant cruiser	Survived

Imperial German Navy

8 ships, 6 lost

Ship	Type	Outcome
SMS Scharnhorst Lost with all hands	Armoured cruiser Scharnhorst class	Sunk
SMS Gneisenau	Armoured cruiser Scharnhorst class	Sunk
SMS Nürnberg	Light cruiser	Sunk
SMS Leipzig	Light cruiser	Sunk
SMS Dresden	Light cruiser	Escaped

Flotillas and other craft	Number	Lost
Colliers Baden and Santa Isabel were sunk by Bristol and Macedonia after their crews were taken off; Seydlitz escaped.	3	2

Flotillas and other craft

Number

Lost

Colliers

Baden and Santa Isabel were sunk by Bristol and Macedonia after their crews were taken off; Seydlitz escaped.

Map

Spee heads for the Falklands November – December 1914
Sturdee brings the battlecruisers south 11 November – 7 December 1914