The Ottoman Navy (Turkish: Osmanlı Donanması) or The Imperial Navy (Ottoman Turkish: Donanma-yı Humâyûn), also known as the Ottoman Fleet, was the naval...

This is a list of major ships of the Ottoman Steam Navy: Ertuğrul Osmâniye Orhâniye Mesûdiye Âsâr-ı Tevfik Âsâr-ı Şevket İclâliye Turgut Reis-class battleship...

The military of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun silahlı kuvvetleri) was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. It was founded in...

century. A buyruldu (decree) from 1793 required that the ships of the Ottoman Navy were to use a red flag with the star and crescent in white. In 1844,...

The Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/), also called the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa...

of the Ottoman Empire began to draw up plans to strengthen the Ottoman Navy. The poor condition of the fleet was clearly visible in the Ottoman Naval Parade...

commander of the Ottoman Navy, rear admiral Arif Pasha, ordered all flags to be struck on all warships lying in the Golden Horn, and the Ottoman Navy ceased to...

1466/1483 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy. Barbarossa's naval victories secured Ottoman dominance over the Mediterranean...

Chung King (1948) - ex-HMS Aurora of the Royal Navy, sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy. Defected to Chinese Communists and then sunk...

The Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I began when two recently purchased ships of its navy, which were still crewed by German sailors and commanded...

recalled to Istanbul and named, Kapudan pasha or Commander-in-Chief, of the Ottoman Navy. like his father before him. Hasan Pasha was at the Great Siege of Malta...

Abdulaziz (Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز, romanized: ʿAbdü'l-ʿAzîz; Turkish: Abdülaziz; 8 February 1830 – 4 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire...

Ottoman Navy and Algeria became an Ottoman possession. Eventually the Ottomans began controlling the hinterland also. In 1552, Salih Reis an Ottoman admiral...

decreasing. While the Ottoman Empire was a major sea power in the Mediterranean, it was not possible to transfer the Ottoman Navy to the Red Sea. So, a...

but arguably ignores the Köprülü era and its reform of the Ottoman state, economy and navy heading into the 18th century; Neoclassical thesis — to some...

This list includes Fleet Commanders (Turkish: Donanma Komutanı) of the Ottoman Navy. On March 13, 1867, the title of Kapudan Pasha (list) was abolished,...

Ertuğrul, launched in 1863, was a sailing frigate of the Ottoman Navy. While returning from a goodwill voyage to Japan in 1890, she encountered a typhoon...

war might as well have let such an early Ottoman attack achieve a crucial victory. Instead, the Ottoman navy spent the first two months of the war in...

Mahmudiye was a ship of the line of the Ottoman Navy. It was a three-masted three-decked 128-gunned sailing ship, which could perhaps be considered to...

as much as possible the Ottoman Navy from resupplying the isolated Ottoman garrisons and land reinforcements from the Ottoman Empire's Asian provinces...

use by the Royal Navy, together with another Ottoman dreadnought being constructed in Britain. This act caused resentment in the Ottoman Empire, as the...

protected cruiser of the Ottoman Empire that saw action during the Balkan Wars and World War I. It was ordered by the Ottoman Navy in 1900 to the United...

voyny) or Russo-Ottoman wars (Turkish: Osmanlı-Rus savaşları) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between...

the Ottoman Navy and named after Sultan Abdülhamid II. It was also the first submarine in the world to fire a live torpedo underwater. The Ottoman Empire...

When Mehmed II ascended the throne again in 1451, he strengthened the Ottoman Navy and made preparations to attack Constantinople. At the age of 21, he...

here in 1323 that the Ottoman Empire first established an outlet to the sea, thus laying the foundations for the Ottoman Navy which would go on to dominate...

Powers in the Great War. Despite these drawbacks, during World War I the Ottoman Navy saw much action against the Russian, British, and French fleets in the...

European-style army and navy. After intervening in the Greek War of Independence at Ottoman Turkey's request, the Egyptian navy was destroyed in 1827 at...

naval operation of the Ottoman navy under the command of Admiral Hamza Bey, which resulted in the annexation of Sukhumi to the Ottoman Empire and the subordination...

protectorate for centuries. The war also saw the rapid expansion of the Ottoman navy, which became able to challenge the Venetians and the Knights Hospitaller...