This series of battles took place in 1697 when the Venetian fleet, under Bartolomeo Contarini

Bartolomeo Contarini

Bartolomeo Contarini was a Venetian businessman who married the widowed duchess of Athens Chiara Zorzi in 1453 and governed the duchy in the name of her infant son, Francesco I....

, hunted down the Turkish fleet in the Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...

. These battles are known as "Bozcaada Sea Battles" (Bozcaada Deniz Savaslari) by Turkish historians.

The actions took place on 6 July near Lemnos

Lemnos

Lemnos is an island of Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos peripheral unit, which is part of the North Aegean Periphery. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina...

, on 1 September between Andros

Andros

Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...

 and Euboea

Euboea

Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long and narrow, seahorse-shaped island; it is about long, and varies in breadth from to...

, and on 20 September south of Euboea. Both sides had about twenty-six battleships as well as several smaller vessels. Casualties for Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 were seventy-one killed and 163 wounded in the first battle and 191 killed and 516 wounded in the last.

Venice

(The number after the name refers to the number of cannon in the ship's main armament.)

San Lorenzo Giustinian 70/80 (flag)

Aurora 80

San Domenico 60

Valor Coronado 54

Nettuno 50/60

Rosa 60

Fenice 56

Fede Guerriera 56

Iride 60/66

San Sebastiano sixty eight - Blew up, one (or 2?) September

Tigre 66

Giove 64

Sole d'Oro 70

Rizzo d'Oro (not in 1st battle)

Amazzone Guerriera (not in first battle)

Redentore del Mundo 70

Venere Armata 52

Vittoria 50/60

San Nicolo 54

Sacra Lega 60

San Andrea 60

Ercole Vittorioso 50/60

Pace ed Abbondanza 50

San Vittorio 62

San Giovanni Battista Grande 60

Madonna della Salute 50

Fama Volante 50

Cavallo Marino (merchantman

Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...

)

Madonna del Rosario (merchantman)

? (fireship) - Expended 20 September

? (fireship)

several galliots and galleys (one of each captured during the first battle)

Ottoman Empire

1 3-decker battleship (likely to have been a seventy or eighty gunner)

25 other battleships (likely to have been fifty to sixty four gunners)

19 galliots (more galliots joined before the third battle)

2 fireships