Action of 6 July 1697

There was a series of battles that took place in 1697 when the Venetian fleet, under Bartolomeo Contarini, hunted down the Turkish fleet in the Aegean Sea.

Both sides had about twenty-six battleships as well as several smaller vessels.

September Tigre 66 Giove 64 Sole d'Oro 70 Rizzo d'Oro (not in 1st battle) Amazzone Guerriera (not in first battle) Redentore del Mundo 70 Venere Armata 52 Vittoria 50/60 San Nicolo 54 Sacra Lega 60 San Andrea 60 Ercole Vittorioso 50/60 Pace ed Abbondanza 50 San Vittorio 62 San Giovanni Battista Grande 60 Madonna della Salute 50 Fama Volante 50 Cavallo Marino (merchantman) Madonna del Rosario (merchantman) ?

(fireship) several galliots and galleys (one of each captured during the first battle) 1 3-decker battleship (likely to have been a seventy or eighty gunner) 25 other battleships (likely to have been fifty to sixty four gunners) 19 galliots (more galliots joined before the third battle) 2 fireships

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