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Musketier09 Jun 2016 1:50 p.m. PST

Maybe I've overlooked something, but all the lists I could fund leave me with two open questions:
- While every last Ottoman galliot seems to be accounted for, no doubt to inflate the magnitude of the Christian victory, there is no mention of the galliots on the League side, yet some period illustrations show them, in a supporting line behind the galleys?
- The Ottoman list gives only the masters' names, not those of the ships. Did Turks / Muslims of the time not name their vessels, or if they did, what would be typical names or naming practices?
Grateful for any light the assembled worthies might shed on the matter.

williamb12 Jun 2016 9:09 p.m. PST

Though from a later period the following Wikipedia page has some lists of ship names that would be appropriate
link
scroll down towards the lower part of the page.

Names such as Iskander or Ibrahim could easily date back even earlier.

From link
Holy League: 208 galleys, 6 Galleasses, and 76 lighter ships.
The Ottoman Empire: 230 galleys, 80 other gunships, and some 100 lighter ships.

Musketier13 Jun 2016 10:19 a.m. PST

Many thanks williamb!
The wiki entry on the Ottoman navy was my plan B, but the NetWars post is one I missed earlier. I'll take it that at least some of the 76 lighter ships on the League side were galliots, rather than the smaller fustas not represented in our game.

Deuce0319 Jun 2016 9:26 p.m. PST

In case you hadn't already found it, Ali Pasha's flagship was called the Sultana. See the bottom of this list, among other sources. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana

This suggests at least that the Ottomans did name their ships, although doesn't help us with what the specific names were.

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