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>>>Greetings, >>> >>>I am writing here a more or less complete list of >>>Ottoman ships which participated to the Corfu >>>expedition in 1799. this list was reconstructed by >>>Kahraman Şakul in his phd thesis "An Ottoman Global >>>Moment: War of Second Coalition in the Levant" pp. >>>107-108. >>> >>>SoL >>> >>>Şehbaz-ı Bahri (Braveheart of the Sea) 74 guns/850 >>>crew, Giritli İbrahim Kapudan >>> >>>Patrona Mehmet Beg, 80 guns >>> >>>Beşaretnüma (Manifest of Blessed News) 76 guns/850 >>>crew, Ahmed Kapudan >>> >>> >>>Frigates >>> >>>Şehper-i Zafer (Giant Wing of Victory) 50 guns/450 >>>crew, Zeynel Kapudan >>> >>>Bülheves (Enthousiastic) 40 guns/275 crew, Rodoslu >>>süleyman Kapudan >>> >>>Mesken-i Gazi (Dwelling of the Holy Warrior) 50 >>>guns/450 crew >>> >>>Şevketnüma (Manifest of Majesty) 50 guns/450 crew, >>>Arnavut Abbas Kapudan >>> >>>Şahin-i Derya (Falcon of the Sea) 50 guns/450 crew >>> >>>Hümay-ı Zafer (Phoenix of Victory) 50 guns/450 crew, >>>Abdülkerim Kapudan >>> >>>Salabetnüma (Manifest of Firmness) 26 guns/200 crew, >>>Tunuslu Hüseyin Kapudan >>> >>>There are also frigates about which only names of >>>captains are known from Ottoman documents. These are >>> >>>Fazlı Kapudan >>>Giritli Hasan Kapudan >>>Alanyalı Ahmet Kapudan >>>Seyyid Hasan Hoca Kapudan >>>Hasan Beg >>> >>>From my personal point of view, the 50 gunners in the >>>list are rather fourth rate two deckers which were >>>very popular in the Ottoman navy for their >combination >>>of shallow draught and relatively heavy artillery. >> >>Emir, this is great, the first real list of a Turkish >>fleet that names the ships. However, on my screen the >>letter "thorn" appears repeatedly. This is used only >>in Icelandic and Faroese. We have had this problem >>here before with submissions by Turkish >>correspondents. Apparently, one of the letters unique >>to Turkish uses the same code in Turkish word >>processors as the Icelandic/Faroese "thorn" (the >>Icelandic/Faroese letter looks like a P after the >>rounded part has slid part way down the vertical >>shaft; in the lower case, it looks like a "b" on top >>of a "p".) Could you <i>describe</i> the letter that >>occurs in the following ships names: >>?ehbaz-ı Bahri >>?evketnüma >>?ehper-i Zafer >>?ahin-i Derya >>Be?aretnüma >> >>My guess is that the letter is "S" with a hook or >>"cedilla" on the bottom, but "G" with a "hacek" (a >>small "v") or "breve" (the bottom half of an "o") over >>it is another possibility. > >Hello Dr. Parker, > >The letters which become "thorn" in your computer is >the "S" with cedilla giving the sound "Sh".

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