List of ships of the line of the Ottoman Empire

This article is about sailing "battleship" of the Ottoman Navy. For naval steam-powered battleships of the Ottoman Navy, see List of battleships of the Ottoman Empire.

This is a list of ships of the line (kalyon) of the Ottoman Empire and its vessels in North Africa during the period 1500-1859:

Algiers Province

? 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 Province

Mehalet el Kebir class (100-gun):
- Mahalet-el-Koubra (al-Muhallet al-Kubra) (ex-Mohamed Ali) 100 (1831, Alexandria) - Extant 1849
- Mansourah (al-Mansurah) (ex-Ibrahim) 96 (1831, Alexandria) - Extant 1849
- Iskander (Iskandr/al-Iskandariyah) 98 (1832, Alexandria) - Extant 1850
- Homs (Hims) 100 (1833, Alexandria) - Rachid 1850, extant 1850
- Koniah (Alep) 100 (1837, Alexandria) - Aleppo, ?extant 1863
- Fayoum (1838, Alexandria) - ?Extant 1863
- Benisouef (1838, Alexandria) - ?Extant 1863
Misr class (136/138-gun):
- Masr (Misr/al-Qahirah) 136 (30 Jul 1832, Alexandria) - 102-gun, extant 1850
- Aké 136 (25 Mar 1833, Alexandria) - 100-gun, extant 1854
Beylan class (80-gun):
- Beylan 86 (1835, Alexandria) - Extant 1864
- Barecham (1838, Alexandria) - Accidentally burnt before completion 22-5-1838
Aboukir (58/72-gun):
- Aboukir (Abu Qur) (1832, Alexandria) - ?Service ended before 1850
Others:
- Al Qahirah 100 (18??) - ?
- Sham 100 (18??) - ?

Tripolitania Province

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 Province

? 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

Ottoman Empire

In 1839, during the war with Egypt, an Ottoman admiral defected and sailed virtually the entire Ottoman 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 Ottoman Empire
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 the Ottoman Empire 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
? 64 - Aground and sank 1807
Sedd-ül Bahir 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
Fatih Bahri 74 - Sunk at the Battle of Navarino, 1827
Ainduie 74
Bekberi-kufret 74
Faouish* 100
Fivrie 74
Nizâmiye 72
Raousierie* 100

Ottoman ships of the line, 1839

Name	Built	Number of guns
Mukkademe-i Hayir	1806	74
Selimiye	1809	128
Necm-i Şevket	1815	80
Burc-ı Zafer	1815	74
Hıfz-ı Rahmân	1826	64
Fethiye	1827	96
Mahmûdiy	1829	128
Memdûhiye	1833	96
Teşrifiye	1834	96
Teşvikiye	1834	96
Nusretiye	1835	64
Tevfikiye	1836	64
Şadiye	1836	64
Fethiye	1836	96

Sources

İsmail Hami Danişmend, İzahlı Osmanlı Tarihi Kronolojisi, 4. Cilt, Türkiye Yayınevi, p. 148.
Candan Badem, The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856), Brill, 2010, p. 117.

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