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Date Posted: 10:02:49 10/12/08 Sun
Author: John Tredrea
Subject: Re: Ottoman naval book
In reply to: Albert Parker 's message, "Re: Ottoman naval book" on 09:52:04 10/12/08 Sun

>>There is just a quite interesting book published
>>dealing witht the Ottoman navy. Author Tuncay Zorluy.
>>Innovation and empire in Turkey. Sultan Selim III and
>>the Modernisation of the Ottoman navy. Tauris Academic
>>Studies, London/Neuw York, ISBN 978 1 84511 694 1.
>>In my opinion the contents are the high price about 70
>>euros worth, the used paperquality not.
>>The author give a amount of interesting information. I
>>had contact with him about the possible sell of Dutch
>>ships to the Ottoman navy and we are both trying to
>>find more about this topic, he in Turkey, I in the
>>Netherlabds
>>Ron
>
>Ron, are there anything like useful and complete ship
>lists for the navy in this book? Unfortunately, Selim
>III did not become sultan until 1789, so anything
>about the navy in his reign would not be very helpful
>about the navy that fought the Russians in 1770. A
>complete list of Selim III's navy would be useful for
>the war with Russia of 1787-92. An article has been
>published in Turkish on Selim III's building program,
>but it covers only new ships, not the ships that
>fought the war of 1787-92. Selim III has been the
>subject of at least one previous general study in
>English, by Sanford Shaw. It had a chapter on general
>reforms in the navy like a naval academy and a
>requirement that navy officers know navigation, but
>covered other reforms of Selim III's reign as well.

Just a point of information. The book is listed in Amazon.com UK and Abe Books, but with a different spelling of the author's name: Tuncay Zorlu. The problems in transliteration between Turkish and English are, of course, one of the major headaches in researching information on the Turkish navy.

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