[1] The ports of Mamora and Salé were pirate havens that constantly threatened the Portuguese coast.

[1] On August 12, the ship São Boaventura and the frigates Nossa Senhora do Pilar and Nossa Senhora Penha de França reached Salé under the command of Captain Francisco Carvalho.

At the end of August, Penha de França and Pilar engaged in combat with a ship from Algeria, which was trying to leave the port.

São Boaventura quickly came to aid the Portuguese and after a few hours of intense fighting, the Algerian ship was captured.

[1] The blockade of the ports of Salé and Mamora probably continued in the following years and in the summer of 1696, Nossa Senhora Penha de França, which was patrolling Mamora, was attacked by many Moroccan vessels, but it managed to repel them.