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by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:45 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

I was talking about the Bosporus straits and the Dardanelles :!:
At Constantinople....Istanbul, modern Turkey :!:
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:35 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

What are the Sund Registers?
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:50 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

they do exist
Foreign ships are registered under the heading Duvvel-i Ecnebiye.
They are the so-called firmans that you can read on accounts of Captains who wanted to pass through the straights.
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:26 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

For a total number of guns available to each Island of the Aegean in 1813
see the book by the French diplomat François Pouqueville, Voyage de la Grece, vol.6, p.294 etc.
available here...
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65341833/f326.image
although the numbers seem a bit exaggerated (or not?)
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:04 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

This is info during the Revolution. For the period 1780-1820, that is for the size and armament of the vessels from Hydra, Spetses, and Psara, which were nominally Ottoman, there must be a good source in the Turkish Archives. They registered in detail all the vessels passing through Bosporus. If you...
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:19 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

They had to, for those Captains in that period of extreme insecurity trade and war were not mutually exclusive. No privateer could challenge them, only true warships. Unfotrunately there is no thorough historical study of those vessels. Usual historical narratives of the Revolution focus on glorious...
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:55 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

Ares or Aris (Άρης), was also built as a merchant vessel and blockade runner.
reliable info here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_brig_Aris
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:05 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

Greek merchant vessels were fitted from the start as blockade runners and carried from 8 to even 14 guns. The Ottoman navy relied heavily on Greek sailors to man the battle fleet. Every year the Capudan Pasha would send out emmisaries to the islands to gather the crews. When the revolution broke out...
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:48 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

The length unit of measurement was the greek πήχης, about 75 centimeters.
the cost was 75,000 spanish dollars (talira).
Agamemnon was indeed built as a warship and Bouboulina had serious trouble with the Ottoman authorities.
Giannos Giannouzas was one of her sons fron her first husband.
by Makis
Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:39 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: Greek corsairs of 1820s
Replies: 30
Views: 34545

Re: Greek corsairs of 1820s

With regard to Bouboulina one can start here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskarina_Bouboulina