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Monday, 28 October 2024

The Algerian privateers fleet anno 1807

Frigates: 3, 1-50 guns, 1-46 guns, 1-44 guns.

Polacres: 2, 1-18 guns, 1-3 masts unarmed.

Xebecs: 2, 1-32 guns, 1-20 guns.

Boats: 1 with latin sails, 4 guns.

Spéronades: 1-2 guns, one  mast.

Gun chaloupes: 5-1 gun, 1 mast, in service of the Regence off the Tunisian coast.

Gun chaloupers or bomb vessels:5, with one mast

Totally 9 vessels 10 gun chaloupes with a total armament of 221 guns.

Source

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

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