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Is anyone aware of examples in which field artillery (including larger caliber mobile guns) engaged destroyers or cruisers? What was the outcome?
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Such a damned good question !
Appart from Broken_Erika's exemple of an english frigate badly hurt on a river and its helping cruiser engaged and damaged, It is hard to find such exemple (read rumors about an antitank gun damaging a corvette in falklands war -in fact a at rocket- and a japanese sub damaged by an american tank in the pacific war)
Most exemples of land towards sea engagement seems to come from shore batteries indeed.
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...or transported siege artillery as it was by the Japanese 28 cm howitzers at Port Arthur.
Wikipedia: With a spotter on a phone line at the vantage point on 203 Meter Hill overlooking Port Arthur harbor, Nogi could now bombard the Russian fleet with heavy 11-inch (280 mm) howitzers with 500-pound (~220 kg) armor-piercing shells. He started systematically sinking the Russian ships within range.
On December 5, 1904, the battleship Poltava was sunk, followed by the battleship Retvizan on December 7, 1904, and the battleships Pobeda and Peresvet and the cruisers Pallada and Bayan on December 9, 1904. The battleship Sevastopol, although hit 5 times by the howitzer shells, managed to move out of range of the guns.
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Thanks everyone for the responses. I was aware of the Port Arthur example. Both are rather exceptional cases. I tend to agree with Dadais that engagements on the open ocean involved shore batteries, rather than field artillery.
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