Bombardment of Algiers order of battle

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

Allies

British

Ship Guns Commander Casualties Notes
Killed Wounded
Queen Charlotte104Flagship of Adm. Edward Pellew, Baron Exmouth
Capt. James Brisbane
8131First-rate Ship of the line
Impregnable98Rear-Adm. David Milne
Capt. Edward Brace
50160Second-rate Ship of the line
Albion74Capt. John Coode315Third-rate Ship of the line
Minden74Capt. Joseph Prior737Third-rate Ship of the line
Superb74Capt. Charles Ekins884Third-rate Ship of the line
Leander50Capt. Edward Chetham-Strode17118Fourth-rate Ship of the line
Glasgow40Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland1037Frigate
Severn40Capt. Hon. Frederick William Aylmer334Frigate
Granicus36Capt. William Furlong Wise1642Frigate
Hebrus36Capt. Edmund Palmer415Frigate
Heron18Capt. George Bentham--Brig-sloop
Mutine18Cdr. James MouldBrig-sloop
Prometheus18Cdr. William B. Dashwood--Brig-sloop
Britomart10Cdr. Robert Riddle--Brig-sloop
Cordelia10Cdr. William Sargent--Brig-sloop
Beelzebub10Cdr. William Kempthorn13Bomb w/two mortars
Fury10Cdr. Constantine Richard Moorsom--Bomb w/two mortars
Infernal12Cdr. Hon. George James Perceval217Bomb w/two mortars
Hecla12Cdr. William Popham--Bomb w/two mortars
Express[3]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

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

Ship Guns Commander Notes
Saracen18Cdr. Alexander DixieBrig-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.
Satellite18Capt. James MurrayBrig-sloop. This was probably the vessel left behind at Gibraltar, with Saracen being a typographical mistake for Satelite
Jasper10Cdr. Thomas CarewBrig-sloop. Only as far as Gibraltar, then returning home with dispatches.

Netherlands

Ship Guns Commander Casualties Notes
Killed Wounded
Amstel44Capt. Willem Augustus van der Hart46Frigate
Diana44Capt. Petrus Zievogel622Frigate
Frederica44Capt. Jakob Adrian van der Straaten-5Frigate
Melampus44Vice-adm. Jonkheer Theodorus Frederik van Capellen
Capt. Antony Willem de Man
315Frigate, flagship
Dageraad36Capt. Johannes Martinus Polders-4Frigate
Eendragt20Capt. Jan Frederik Christiaan Wardenburg--Corvette

Algiers

Ship Guns Notes
4 Frigates441 scuttled, the rest burnt?
5 Corvettes24-30Burnt?
30-40 Gunboats and Mortar vesselsBurnt?
55 Others?

James mentions that a French frigate of 40 guns, named Ciotat, had warned the Algerines of the coming attack.[4] However, there was no vessel by that name in the French Navy between 1786 and 1861.[5] Other sources refer to Ciotat as a gabarre or a corvette, and make no mention of her being a man-of-war.

Citations and references

Citations

  1. "No. 17173". The London Gazette. 15 September 1816. pp. 1789–1793.
  2. James (1837), Vol. 6, pp.398–408.
  3. Anon. (1941), p.332, Fn. 1.
  4. James (1824), Vol.5, p.575.
  5. Winfield & Roberts (2015).

References

  • 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. 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.
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