List of Turkish sail frigates
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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.
Note that some of the later ships in this list may be repeats, due to bad transliteration.
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
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 ChesmaBattle of ChesmaThe naval Battle of Chesma took place on 5 -7 July 1770 near and in Çeşme Bay, in the area between the western tip of Anatolia and the island of Chios, which was the site of a number of past naval battles between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice...
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)2 or 3 of the 4 frigates marked (A) sank in 1807
- 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)13 ships marked (N) were at the Battle of Navarino in 1827 and correspond to the 16 vessels below (there are some repeats) but it is not known which is which - Blew up during the Battle of NavarinoBattle of NavarinoThe naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay , on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force...
1827 - ? 56 (N) - Captured by the UK and blown up at the Battle of NavarinoBattle of NavarinoThe naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay , on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force...
, 1827 - ? (N)
- ? (N)
- ? 52 (N)
- ? 64 (N) - Sunk during the Battle of NavarinoBattle of NavarinoThe naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay , on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force...
1827 - ? (N)
- ? (N)
- ? (N)
- "Conquerant" 56 (N) - Captured by Russia and blown up at the Battle of NavarinoBattle of NavarinoThe naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay , on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force...
, 1827 - ? (N)
- "Grande Sultane" (N) - Captured by France at the Battle of NavarinoBattle of NavarinoThe naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay , on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force...
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 |
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Nusretiye | 60 | ||
Reşid | |||
Avnillah | 1832 | 50 or 36 | Aground and burnt at the Battle of Sinop Battle of Sinop The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor... 1853 |
Nizâmiye | 64 or 60 | Burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop Battle of Sinop The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor... 1853 |
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Nesîm-i Zafer | 48 or 32 | Aground and burnt at the Battle of Sinop Battle of Sinop The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor... 1853 |
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Fazlullah | ex-Russian Rafail, captured 1829 | 48 or 38 | Burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop Battle of Sinop The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor... 1853 |
Nâvek-i Bahrî | 1834 | 42 or 52 | Burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop Battle of Sinop The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor... 1853 |
Dimyâd | 42 or 54 | ||
Kâ'id-i Zafer | 22 or 50 | Survived the Battle of Navarino Battle of Navarino The naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay , on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force... 1827, burnt/blew up at the Battle of Sinop Battle of Sinop The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Anatolia, when Imperial Russian warships struck and annihilated a patrol force of Ottoman ships anchored in the harbor... 1853 |
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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.