This is a listing of the fleets that participated in the Bombardment of Algiers on August 27, 1816.
Frederick Thomas Michell, and comprising 55 vessels; gun-boats, mortar-boats, launches with carronades, rocket-boats, barges, and yawls.
Although James lists these three vessels as leaving England with the flotilla for Algiers, none actually served there.
James mentions that a French frigate of 40 guns, named Ciotat, had warned the Algerines of the coming attack.
[6] Other sources refer to Ciotat as a gabarre or a corvette, and make no mention of her being a man-of-war.