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.
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
Ottoman Empire
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)[dn 1]
- 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)[dn 2] - 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.
Ottoman frigates, 1839
Name | Built | Number of guns | Note |
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Muîn-i Rahmet | 1828 | 40 | |
Avnillah | 1832 | 50 | |
Yâver-i Tevfik | 1832 | 32 | |
Suriye | 1833 | 56 | |
Tâir-i Bahrî | 1833 | 62 | |
Mirat-ı Zafer | 1834 | 44 | |
Şihâb-ı Bahrî | 1837 | 64 | |
Pîr-i Şevket | 1837 | 58 | |
Nâvek-i Bahrî | 1834 | 42 |
Ottoman frigates, 1853
Name | Built | Number of guns | Note |
---|---|---|---|
Nusretiye | 60 | ||
Reşid | |||
Avnillah | 1832 | 50 or 36 | Aground and burnt at the Battle of Sinop 1853 |
Nizâmiye | 64 or 60 | Burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop 1853 | |
Nesîm-i Zafer | 48 or 32 | Aground and burnt at the Battle of Sinop 1853 | |
Fazlullah | ex-Russian Rafail, captured 1829[citation needed] | 48 or 38 | Burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop 1853 |
Nâvek-i Bahrî | 1834 | 42 or 52 | Burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop 1853 |
Dimyâd | 42 or 54 | ||
Kâ'id-i Zafer | 22 or 50 | Survived the Battle of Navarino 1827, burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop 1853 | |
Nacm-i Zafer | 52 | ||
Tâif | 1846 | 30 | Steam frigate |
Mecidiye | 1846 | 30 | Steam frigate |
Sâik-i Sâdî | 1847 | 30 | Steam frigate |
Feyzâ-i Bahrî | 1848 | 30 | Steam frigate |
Muhbir-i Sürûr | 1847 | 22 | Steam frigate |
Zır-i Cihat | |||
Serafeddin | |||
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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.