Bombardment of Algiers (1816) order of battle

This is a listing of the fleets that participated in the Bombardment of Algiers on August 27, 1816.[1][2]

## Allies

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### British

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Ship  | Guns  | Commander  | Casualties  | Notes

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Killed | Wounded
Queen Charlotte | 104 | Adm. Lord Exmouth
Capt. James Brisbane | 8 | 131 | First-rate ship of the line
Impregnable | 98 | Rear-Adm. David Milne
Capt. Edward Brace | 50 | 160 | Second-rate ship of the line
Albion | 74 | Capt. John Coode | 3 | 15 | Third-rate ship of the line
Minden | 74 | Capt. Joseph Prior | 7 | 37 | Third-rate ship of the line
Superb | 74 | Capt. Charles Ekins | 8 | 84 | Third-rate ship of the line
Leander | 50 | Capt. Edward Chetham-Strode[3] | 17 | 118 | Fourth-rate ship of the line
Glasgow | 40 | Capt. Anthony Maitland | 10 | 37 | Frigate
Severn | 40 | Capt. Frederick William Aylmer | 3 | 34 | Frigate
Granicus | 36 | Capt. William Furlong Wise | 16 | 42 | Frigate
Hebrus | 36 | Capt. Edmund Palmer | 4 | 15 | Frigate
Heron | 18 | Capt. George Bentham | - | - | Brig-sloop
Mutine | 18 | Cdr. James Mould |  |  | Brig-sloop
Prometheus | 18 | Cdr. William B. Dashwood | - | - | Brig-sloop
Britomart | 10 | Cdr. Robert Riddell | - | - | Brig-sloop
Cordelia | 10 | Cdr. William Sargent | - | - | Brig-sloop
Beelzebub | 10 | Cdr. William Kempthorn | 1 | 3 | Bomb vessel w/two mortars
Fury | 10 | Cdr. Constantine Richard Moorsom | - | - | Bomb w/two mortars
Infernal | 12 | Cdr. George James Perceval | 2 | 17 | Bomb w/two mortars
Hecla | 12 | Cdr. William Popham | - | - | Bomb w/two mortars
Express[4] | 4 | - | - | - | Advice boat tender to Revenge

Also the "Battering Flotilla", under the command of Capt. Frederick Thomas Michell, and comprising 55 vessels; gun-boats, mortar-boats, launches with carronades, rocket-boats, barges, and yawls.

#### Other British

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Although James lists these three vessels as leaving England with the flotilla for Algiers, none actually served there.

Ship  | Guns  | Commander  | Notes

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Saracen | 18 | Cdr. Alexander Dixie | Brig-sloop. Left behind at Gibraltar. Although James refers to Saracen in his account of the preparations for the bombardment, he is in error. By 1816 Commander Alexander Dixie was no longer in command of Saracen, and she was at Bermuda.
Satellite | 18 | Capt. James Murray | Brig-sloop. This was probably the vessel left behind at Gibraltar, with Saracen being a typographical mistake for Satelite
Jasper | 10 | Cdr. Thomas Carew | Brig-sloop. Only as far as Gibraltar, then returning home with dispatches.

### Netherlands

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Ship  | Guns  | Commander  | Casualties  | Notes

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Killed | Wounded
Amstel | 44 | Capt. Willem Augustus van der Hart | 4 | 6 | Frigate
Diana | 44 | Capt. Petrus Zievogel | 6 | 22 | Frigate
Frederica | 44 | Capt. Jakob Adrian van der Straaten | - | 5 | Frigate
Melampus | 44 | Vice-adm. Jonkheer Theodorus Frederik van Capellen
Capt. Antony Willem de Man | 3 | 15 | Frigate, flagship
Dageraad | 36 | Capt. Johannes Martinus Polders | - | 4 | Frigate
Eendragt | 20 | Capt. Jan Frederik Christiaan Wardenburg | - | - | Corvette

## Algiers

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Ship  | Guns  | Notes

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4 Frigates | 44 | 1 scuttled, the rest burnt?
5 Corvettes | 24-30 | Burnt?
30-40 Gunboats and Mortar vessels |  | Burnt?
55 Others? |  |

James mentions that a French frigate of 40 guns, named Ciotat, had warned the Algerines of the coming attack.[5] However, there was no vessel by that name in the French Navy between 1786 and 1861.[6] Other sources refer to Ciotat as a gabarre or a corvette, and make no mention of her being a man-of-war.

## Citations

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1. ^ "No. 17173". The London Gazette. 15 September 1816. pp. 1789–1793.
2. ^ James (1837), Vol. 6, pp.398–408.
3. ^ For more on Edward Chetham-Strode see: O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Strode, Edward Chetham" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
4. ^ Anon. (1941), p.332, Fn. 1.
5. ^ James (1824), Vol.5, p.575.
6. ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015).

## References

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* Anon. "By a Friend of the National Maritime Museum" (1941) "The Battle of Algiers", Mariner's mirror (October 1941), Vol. 27, pp. 324–338.
* James, William (1837). Naval History of Great Britain. Vol. VI. London: Richard Bentley. Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
* Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.