This series of battles took place in 1697 when the Venetian fleet, under
Bartolomeo Contarini, hunted down the Turkish fleet in the
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi ( Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans ...
.
The actions took place on 6 July near
Lemnos
Lemnos or Limnos ( el, Λήμνος; grc, Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The p ...
, on 1 September between
Andros and
Euboea
Evia (, ; el, Εύβοια ; grc, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only at its narrowest poi ...
, and on 20 September south of Euboea. Both sides had about twenty-six battleships as well as several smaller vessels. Casualties for
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
were seventy-one killed and 163 wounded in the first battle and 191 killed and 516 wounded in the last.
Order of battle
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'' 68 - Blew up, 1 (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
A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are u ...
)
''Madonna del Rosario'' (merchantman)
''?'' (
fireship
A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and steered (or, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy sh ...
) - Expended 20 September
''?'' (fireship)
several
galliots
A galiot, galliot or galiote, was a small galley boat propelled by sail or oars. There are three different types of naval galiots that sailed on different seas.
A ''galiote'' was a type of French flat-bottom river boat or barge and also a flat- ...
and
galley
A galley is a type of ship that is propelled mainly by oars. The galley is characterized by its long, slender hull, shallow draft, and low freeboard (clearance between sea and gunwale). Virtually all types of galleys had sails that could be u ...
s (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
References
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Conflicts in 1697
Battles of the Great Turkish War
1697
1697
1690s in the Ottoman Empire
17th century in Greece
1697 in Europe
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