The Battle of Porto Farina took place at Porto Farina (now Ghar el-Melh) on 4 April 1655 (14 April by modern calendar)[1][2] in northern Tunisia, when an English fleet under General-at-Sea Robert Blake destroyed the vessels of several Barbary corsairs.
After sailing back and forth between Sardinia, Tunis, and Sicily for nearly two months and sending the demands again, he arrived on 3 April[3] at Porto Farina, where the Barbary ships had gathered for their intended voyage to the Dardanelles to help the Turks that season.
The Bey still refused his demands, but Blake's attack helped the Venetians in their battle against the Muslim states two months later at the action of 21 June 1655.
Though a tactical victory for Blake, the battle proved damaging to English strategic interests.
The ships destroyed belonged not to the Tunisian corsairs, but to their nominal overlords the Ottoman Empire, whose goodwill was key to the English Levant Company's trade in the region.