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 | 1939-12-13 | 1939-12-17 | Battle of the River Plate | The British cruisers, Exeter, Achilles and Graf Spree. The heavy German armament damages two of the British cruisers putting into the neutral port of Montevideo for repairs. British forces concentrate. Captain Langsdorrf scuttles the Graf Spree. | Read about 'Battle of the River Plate' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of the River Plate' |
| 1939-12-12 | Salmon | German cruisers Leipzig and Nurnberg are damaged by the British submarine Salmon in the North Sea. | Read about 'Salmon' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Salmon' | |
| 1939-12-04 | U-36 | The German submarine U-36 was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by the British submarine HMS Salmon | Read about 'U-36' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'U-36' | |
| 1939-11-23 | Rawalpindi | Despite being hopelessly outgunned, 60-year old Captain Edward Coverley Kennedy RN of Rawalpindi decided to fight, rather than surrender. He was heard to say "Well fight them both, theyll sink us, and that will be that. Good-bye". | Read about 'Rawalpindi' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Rawalpindi' | |
| 1939-11-21 | 1939-11-27 | Scharnhost and Gneisenau | German battlecruisers cruise the North Atlantic on commerce raiding mission for the first time. Scharnhorst's first wartime operation was a sortie into the Iceland-Faroes passage | Read about 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau' |
| 1939-10-14 | Scapa Flow | The battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-47 in the supposedly secure anchorage of Scapa Flow. 833 crew are lost. | Read about 'Scapa Flow' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Scapa Flow' | |
| 1939-09-30 | Graf Spee | The German raider sinks the merchantman Clement, off Brazil. | Read about 'Graf Spee' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Graf Spee' | |
| 1939-09-25 | English Channel | The British Royal Navy begins laying mines in the English Channel. Germans begin to lay magnetic mines in British coastal shipping lanes. | Read about 'English Channel' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'English Channel' | |
 | 1939-09-20 | U-27 sunk | U-27 was hunted down and sunk very early in the war. She was the second submarine (after U-39) to be sunk. | Read about 'U-27 sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'U-27 sunk' | |
| 1939-09-17 | Courageous | British aircrat carrier is sunk by U-29 southwest of Ireland. The submarine is in turn sunk by destroyers in the carrier's escort. | Read about 'Courageous' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Courageous' |
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