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Saturday, 19 October 2024

The Algerian privateers fleet anno 1799

Frigates: 2-36 guns, one called El-Merikana.

Polacres: 4, 2-22 guns, 1-18 gun, 1-6 guns.

Xebecs: 6, 1-34 guns, 2-32 guns, 1-18 guns, 1-16 guns, 1-10 guns called Kirlankotch.

Brigs: 1-22 guns.

Goelettes: 2-12 guns.

Totally 15 vessels with a total armament of 238 guns. One 34 guns xebec cpatured by 2 Portuguese warships.

Source

Albert Devoulxx. “La Marine de la Régence d’Alger”, Revue Africaine, No.. 77, September 1869. 

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