| Battle of Silda | |||||||
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| Part of the Gunboat War | |||||||
 Dano-Norwegian shallop gunboat | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom |
 Denmark-Norway | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Richard Byron |
Gabriel Heiberg | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2 frigates |
2 schooners 1 gunboat | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown |
4 killed 1 schooner captured 1 gunboat scuttled | ||||||
Battle of Silda (Affæren ved Silden or Affæren ved Stadt) was a naval battle fought on 23 July 1810 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Denmark–Norway near the Norwegian island of Silda in Sogn og Fjordane county. The battle occurred during the Gunboat War, itself part of the Napoleonic Wars. In the battle, two British frigates captured or destroyed three or four Dano-Norwegian gunboats. The Danish-Norwegian and British accounts of the battle differ.