Battle of the Lipari Islands

• This was the first Naval Battle in 260 BCE of the First Punic War (264-241 BCE) between Rome and Carthage.

The Battle

• The Roman Navy was a new concept, created almost overnight in 261 BCE, with the construction of 100 Quinqueremes and 20 Triremes
• The Romans experienced their first Naval defeat when 17 Roman galleys were easily captured by 20 Carthaginian galleys in the Lipari Islands off the coast of Sicily.

Aeolian Islands or Lipari Islands