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'') was built at Portsmouth, NH, as tribute for the Dey of Algiers and launched from the U.S. Navy Yard on 29 June 1797; stricken 1805 * ''

Mashouda The ''Mashouda'' or ''Meshuda'' was the Regency of Algiers, Algerian fleet flagship of admiral Raïs Hamidou during the Second Barbary War. Stephen Decatur captured her in June 1815 at the Battle off Cape Gata. This created a favorable American po ...

'' 46 (1802) Stephen Decatur, Jr, of the U.S. Navy, captured her in 1815; the U.S. returned her. She was sunk at Algiers 1816 * El-Portugaziye 36 (ex-Portuguese "N.a S.a do Bom Despacho, Cisne" (1779-1802; 36 guns), captured 1802 in the Mediterranean and sunk at Algiers during the

Bombardment of Algiers (1816) The Bombardment of Algiers was an attempt on 27 August 1816 by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers. An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth bomb ...

* Grande frigate 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) – ex-, captured 1803; a U.S. naval boarding party under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. set fire to her in 1804, destroying her

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 The naval Battle of Chesme took place on 5–7 July 1770 during the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) near and in Çeşme (Chesme or Chesma) Bay, in the area between the western tip of Anatolia and the island of Chios, which was the site of a numb ...

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 * ''Uri Bahar'' (British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...

(RN) version of the name; 40 guns) - The RN took possession of her on 21 March 1807 during the Alexandria expedition of 1807. ''Uri Bahar'' had twenty-eight 18-pounder guns on her upper deck, and six 8-pounder guns and six 18-pounder carronades on her Quarterdeck, QD and Forecastle, Fc. There is no record that the RN evere commissioned her. It disposed of her i in 1809. * ''Uri Nasard'' (RN version of the name; 34 guns) - The RN took possession of her on 21 March 1807 during the Alexandria expedition of 1807. The Royal Navy commissioned ''Uri Nasard'' circa January 1808. Captain George Hony (or Honey) took command of ''Uri Nasard''. She was armed with twenty-six 12-pounder guns on her upper deck, and eight 6-pounders (QD/Fc). The RN disposed of her in 1809. * * ''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 her on 5/6 July 1808. In 1847 the Admiralty issued the clasp "Seahorse Wh. Badere Zaffere" to the Naval General Service Medal (1847) to surviving claimants from the action * ? - 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 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

Ottoman frigates, 1853

Citations

References

*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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Notes

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