The Ottoman World, the Mediterranean and North Africa, 16601760 by Colin Heywood;

Author:Colin Heywood;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

2. The Utility of Algerine Ships’ Names (or ‘Names’)

We have the Algerine fleet lists used by Turbet-Delof and Belhamissi, but for these scholars the lists exist only in ones and twos. With more – at least nine – covering the period 1675–1715, discoverable from English archival sources, some additional questions can be asked, since the Algerine war fleet ships can, with some accuracy, be identified as a continually evolving and changing unity, and, since the English (post-1707: British) consuls and other seafarers and travellers who made the lists collected information also on the number of guns, the number of crew, and the name and ethnicity of commander reis the manning of the fleet and the variants in its firepower can be assessed and tabulated.16 As a further consequence, for future research, we can ask technological and prosopographic questions and compare the Algerine (and other Barbary) war fleets with European and Ottoman ones of the same period.

As a preliminary enquiry, therefore, we need to ask, first: what the actual composition of the Algerine war fleet was during these years: the number of ships, their armament and their crews. Some preliminary statistics extracted from the consular fleet lists may be examined.

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