List of Turkish sail battleships

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This is a list of Turkish and African states large sailing ships and sail battleships of the period 1500-1859:

Algiers:

  • ? c. 50 - Scuttled in battle 1624
  • ? 46 - Sunk 1665
  • Marygold - Captured by England 1677, wrecked 1679
  • ? - Captured by England as Tiger Prize 1678, scuttled as breakwater 1696
  • ? - Captured by England 1679, renamed Greyhound 42
  • Golden Horse - Captured by England 1681, scuttled 1688
  • Half Moon - Captured by England 1681, burnt 1686
  • Two Lions - Captured by England 1681, sold 1688
  • Star 50 - Captured by Rome 1695
  • Half Moon 40 - Captured by Malta 1713
  • ? 56 - Sank 1714
  • other battleships and/or frigates which took part in battles in 1696, 1791 and 1827

Egypt:
All were built around 1833, most/all in Alexandria. Most didn't last long.

  • Abu Qur/Aboukir 74/84/94
  • Akka 100
  • Alep 100
  • Bernisouef 100
  • Beylan/Beleng 80/86/96
  • Fayoum 100
  • Halab 100
  • Hims/Hems 100
  • al-Iskandriyah/Iskandr/Iskender 100 or 96
  • al-Mansurah/Mansourah 100/104 (1831)
  • Misr 100
  • al-Muhallat al-Kubra/Mehallet-el-Kabyr 100 (1831)
  • al Qahirah 100
  • Sham 100

Tripoli:

  • White Crowned Eagle 50 - Captured and sunk by the English, 1676
  • ?* (Half Moon?) 42
  • ?* (Half Moon?) 42
  • ?* (Dragon?) 38
  • Sun* 40
  • Flying Horse* 38
  • ? 56 - Burnt 1709
  • ? 48 - Captured by Malta 1723

Ships marked * are from a 1679 list of the Tripolitan fleet

Tunis:

  • ? 40 - Captured by Malta 1628
  • ? 46 - Captured by Malta 1640
  • Rose of Tunis 46 - Captured by Malta 1706, renamed Santa Croce
  • ? 38 - Captured by France 1727, to Tunis 1727

Turkey:
In 1839, during the war with Egypt, a Turkish admiral defected and sailed virtually the entire Turkish fleet to Alexandria where it joined the Egyptian fleet. The Egyptian fleet sailed out to meet it, and there was a chance of a major battle until it was realized they were friendly. The ships were returned in 1840. The ships involved are marked *. Some of the later ships are probably duplicates due to poor transliteration/translation of names:

  • Comte Maurice 50 - Sunk 1609
  • ? 60? - Captured by Naples 1618
  • ? 50 - Sank 1630
  • ? 50
  • ? 46
  • ? 54 - Captured by Malta and sank, 1654
  • Tre Naranceri 40 - Sunk 1662
  • ? 60-70? - Captured by privateers 1669
  • ? 60-70? - Blew up 1669
  • Nachis 70 - Burnt 1686
  • ? (ex-Venetian San Iseppo/San Giuseppe 44, captured 1690) - Possibly captured by Algeria, not Turkey
  • Beneghem 66 - Captured by Malta 1700
  • ? 58 (ex-Russian Bozhie Predvyedenie, captured 1710)
  • ? 50 (ex-Russian Lastka, captured 1710)
  • ? 48 - Captured by Malta 1732
  • ? (ex-Swedish Sverige 80) - Wrecked during transfer voyage 1738
  • "Corona Ottomana" 70 - Carried by own slaves to Malta 1760, renamed San Salvadore, to France 1760/61, to Turkey 1761
  • Real Mustafa 84 - Blew up at the Battle of Chesma, 1770
  • ? 100 - Flagship at the Battle of Chesma, 1770, where it was burnt
  • ? 50 - Burnt at the Battle of Chesma, 1770
  • ? 50 - Burnt at the Battle of Chesma, 1770
  • (11 battleships) - Burnt at the Battle of Chesma, 1770
  • Rodos 60 - Captured by Russia at the Battle of Chesma, 1770, sank 1770
  • ? 66 - Aground and destroyed at Kos, 1770
  • ? 74 - Destroyed Mitylene, 1771
  • ? 74 - Destroyed Mitylene, 1771
  • ? 54/60 - Blew up, 1787
  • ? 66 (ex-Russian Maria Magadalina, captured 1787)
  • ? 64 - Burnt 1788
  • ? 64 - Burnt 1788
  • ? 54 - Aground and captured by Russia 1788 and renamed Leontii Mutchenik 62
  • (5 battleships) 40-60 - Aground and destroyed 1788
  • ? 74 - Burnt and blew up at the Battle of Tendra, 1790
  • Melike Bahri 66 - Captured by Russia at the Battle of Tendra, 1790, renamed Ioann Predtecha
  • Selimiye/Sultan Selim 126 (c. 1795)
  • ? 64 - Aground and sank 1807
  • Sadd al-Bahr 84 - Captured by Russia 1807, captured by France 1809
  • Anka-yi bahri 84
  • Taus i bahri 84
  • Tevfik-numa 84
  • Bisharet (or Biafaret?) 84
  • Kilid-i bahri 84
  • Sayyad-i bahri 74
  • Gulbang-i-Nusrat 74
  • Jebel-andaz 74
  • ? - Destroyed by fireship 1821
  • Mansur el liwa 84 - Destroyed by fireship 1822
  • ? - Destroyed by fireship 1822
  • Ghyu h Rewan 84 - Flagship at the Battle of Navarino, 1827, where it was damaged
  • Burj Zafer* 74
  • Fatih Bahri 74 - Sunk at the Battle of Navarino, 1827
  • Ainduie 74
  • Bekberi-kufret 74
  • Faouish* 100
  • Fethiye/Fathie* 96
  • Fivrie 74
  • Mahmudiye/Mahmoudie* 120
  • Makademi-Lair 76
  • Mandouhie* 100
  • Mesudiye/Messoudie/Masudiya* 118/120 (1829)
  • Nizamiye 72
  • Nuzretiye 72
  • Raousierie* 100
  • Rechrifie* 90
  • Tesrifiye 96

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