Battle of Ad-Dawrah

Battle of Ad-Dawrah
Part of the Persian Gulf War

USS Nicholas
Date18–19 January 1991
Location
Ad-Dawrah Offshore Oil Fields
Result Coalition victory
Territorial
changes
Ad-Dawrah captured
Belligerents
Iraq  United States
 United Kingdom
 Kuwait
Commanders and leaders
Iraq Saddam Hussein United States Norman Schwarzkopf
United Kingdom Peter Billière
Kuwait Jaber III
Strength
50+ marines
1 Zodiac
1 frigate (USS Nicholas)
1 fast attack ship (Istiqlal)
US Navy SEALs
USN & RN helicopters
Casualties and losses
29 captured None

The Battle of Ad-Dawrah was a naval engagement fought on the night of 18 January and into 19 January in 1991 during the Gulf War. In the battle, Coalition forces captured an Iraqi offshore oil field forty miles from the Kuwaiti shore. The 29 Iraqi servicemen captured were the first prisoners of the conflict. It was also the first surface engagement after the Coalition intervened in the Gulf War.