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List of sail frigates of the Ottoman Empire

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This is a list of Ottoman Empire and allied sail and steam frigates of the period 1650-1867:
The guns listed are sometimes approximate as it's difficult to get accurate data for early Ottoman warships.

Contents

Algiers Eyalet

  •  ? 37 - Spanish Nuestra Señora de Trapana
  • El-Merikane 36 (1797, ex-Crescent) - Stricken 1805
  • Mashouda 46 (1802) - USA 1815, returned, sunk at Algiers 1816
  • El-Portugaziye 36 (ex-Portuguese Cisne, obtained 1802) - Sunk at Algiers 1816
  • Grande fregate 50 (1805) - Sunk at Algiers 1816
  • El-Tunisiye 44 (1804, ex-Tunisian, obtained 1811) - Sunk at Algiers 1816
  • El-Jazairiye 38 (1812) - ?
  •  ? 32 (ex-Moroccan El-Mansouriye, obtained 1817) - Storm 1822
  • Rehber Iskender 40 (1818) - Egyptian 1830, stricken before 1836
  • Meftah el-Jihad 46 (~1820?) - Egyptian 1830, stricken after 1838
  • Bel Houaz/El-Touloniye (1822) - French 1830, BU 1830/31

    • Tripolitania Eyalet

  •  ? 32 (ex-French, captured 1668)
  • Looking Glass 34 - Burnt 1676
  • Sancta Chiara 24 - Burnt 1676
  • Philadelphia 36 (1799, ex-US Philadelphia, captured 1803) - Blew up 1804

    • 17th century

  •  ? 34 - Captured by Venice 1660
  •  ? 25 - Captured by Venice 1660
  •  ? 30 - Captured by Venice 1662
  •  ? 24 - Captured by Venice 1662
  •  ? 36 (ex-French, captured 1668)
  •  ? 30 (ex-French, captured 1668)

    • 18th century

  • (6 frigates) - Burnt at the Battle of Chesma 1770
  •  ? - Burnt 1772
  •  ? 30 - Burnt 1772
  • (7 frigates) 30 - Burnt 1772
  •  ? 30 - Sunk 1772

    • Napoleonic era

  •  ? 28 (ex-French Brune, captured 1799)
  •  ? 40 (ex-French Justice, captured 1801)
  •  ? 40 - Aground and sunk 1807
  •  ? 36 - Aground and sunk 1807
  •  ? 36 - Aground and sunk 1807
  •  ? 32 - Aground and sunk 1807
  •  ? 40 - Captured by Britain 1807
  •  ? 34 - Captured by Britain 1807
  • Meskeni-ghazi 50 (A)
  • Bedr-i Zafar 50 (A)
  • Fakih-i Zafar 50 (A)
  • Nessim 50 - Aground and burnt 1807
  • Iskenderiye 44 (A)
  • Badere Zafer/Bedr-i zafar 52 - Captured by Britain 1808
  •  ? - Captured by Russia 1810
  • Mahubey Subhan 40 - Captured by Russia 1811

    • Greek War of Independence

  •  ? - Wrecked 1822
  •  ? 54 - Burnt by fireship 1824
  • Asia 44 - Burnt by fireship 1825
  •  ? 66 (possibly cut-down battleship) - Burnt by fireship 1825
  •  ? 64 (N) - Blew up during the Battle of Navarino 1827
  •  ? 56 (N) - Captured by the UK and blown up at the Battle of Navarino, 1827
  •  ? (N)
  •  ? (N)
  •  ? 52 (N)
  •  ? 64 (N) - Sunk during the Battle of Navarino 1827
  •  ? (N)
  •  ? (N)
  •  ? (N)
  • "Conquerant" 56 (N) - Captured by Russia and blown up at the Battle of Navarino, 1827
  •  ? (N)
  • "Grande Sultane" (N) - Captured by France at the Battle of Navarino 1827
  •  ? (N)

    • Ottoman frigates, 1829

  • Hıfz-ı Rahmân 60
  • Feyz-i Mi'rac 48
  • Keyvan-ı Bahrî 48
  • Fevz-i Nusret 64
  • Bandino Seret
  • Mejra Zafer 48
  • (10 ships) 42
  • Nouhan Bahari 50
  • M'sian Zafer 50
  • Chabal Bahari 50
  • Naoum Bahari 50
  •  ? - Captured by the UK 1840 (returned?)
  • Diwân

    • Note that some of the later ships in this list may be repeats, due to bad transliteration.

    References

    List of sail frigates of the Ottoman Empire Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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