List of sail frigates of the Ottoman Empire

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 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)
  • 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 – ex-USS Philadelphia, 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 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 (RN) version of the name; 40 guns) - The RN took possession of her on 21 March 1807 during the Alexandria expedition of 1807; the RN briefly took her into service
  • 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 RN briefly took her into service
  • 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 - HMS Seahorse 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)[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
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 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
Taif 1846 30 Steam frigate
Mecidiye 1846 30 Steam frigate
Saik-i Şadi 1847 30 Steam frigate
Feyzâ-i Bahrî 1848 30 Steam frigate
Mubir-i Sürur 1847 22 Steam frigate
Zır-i Cihat
Serafeddin

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.

    Notes
    1. 2 or 3 of the 4 frigates marked (A) sank in 1807
    2. 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
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