Naval operations of the Kamerun campaign

Naval operations of the Kamerun campaign
Part of the Kamerun campaign in World War I
Map of the Wouri estuary
Date 24 August - 28 September 1914 Location Coast of German Kamerun, Wouri estuary Result Allied victory
Belligerents
British Empire British Nigeria  France French Equatorial Africa	German Empire German Kamerun
Commanders and leaders
Major General Charles Dobell	Governor Karl Ebermaier Major Carl Zimmermann
Casualties and losses
light	2 gunboats sunk 1 merchant vessel sunk 1 gunboat captured 8 merchant vessels captured 36 dead[1]

The Naval operations of the Kamerun campaign were carried out by German and Allied forces during the Kamerun campaign of the First World War from August to September 1914. Naval activity occurred all along the coast of German Kamerun in the Bight of Bonny but most of the action took place in the Wouri estuary. The main event of the campaign were the successful British and French amphibious landings at Duala. The operations carried out by British and French naval forces concluded in securing control over the German colony's entire coastline and the destruction of any German naval vessels that were capable of offering resistance. Allied occupation of the coastline forced the Germans to retreat into the interior of Kamerun where they would meet their defeat in 1916.