This is a listing of the fleets that participated in the Bombardment of Algiers on August 27, 1816.James (1837), Vol. 6, pp.398–408.
Allies
British Ship Guns Commander Casualties NotesKilledWounded 104 Adm. Lord ExmouthCapt. James Brisbane 8 131 First-rate ship of the line 98 Rear-Adm. David MilneCapt. Edward Brace 50 160 Second-rate ship of the line 74 Capt. John Coode 3 15 Third-rate ship of the line 74 Capt. Joseph Prior 7 37 Third-rate ship of the line 74 Capt. Charles Ekins 8 84 Third-rate ship of the line 50 Capt. Edward Chetham-StrodeFor more on Edward Chetham-Strode see: 17 118 Fourth-rate ship of the line 40 Capt. Anthony Maitland 10 37 Frigate 40 Capt. Frederick William Aylmer 3 34 Frigate 36 Capt. William Furlong Wise 16 42 Frigate 36 Capt. Edmund Palmer 4 15 Frigate 18 Capt. George Bentham - - Brig-sloop 18 Cdr. James Mould Brig-sloop 18 Cdr. William B. Dashwood - - Brig-sloop 10 Cdr. Robert Riddell - - Brig-sloop 10 Cdr. William Sargent - - Brig-sloop 10 Cdr. William Kempthorn 1 3 Bomb vessel w/two mortars 10 Cdr. Constantine Richard Moorsom - - Bomb w/two mortars 12 Cdr. George James Perceval 2 17 Bomb w/two mortars 12 Cdr. William Popham - - Bomb w/two mortars Anon. (1941), p.332, Fn. 1. 4 - - - Advice boat tender to Revenge Also the "Battering Flotilla", under the command of Capt. Frederick Thomas Michell, and comprising 55 vessels; gun-boats, mortar-boats, launches with carronades, rocket-boats, barges, and yawls.
Other British Although James lists these three vessels as leaving England with the flotilla for Algiers, none actually served there.
Ship Guns Commander Notes 18 Cdr. Alexander Dixie Brig-sloop. Left behind at Gibraltar. Although James refers to Saracen in his account of the preparations for the bombardment, he is in error. By 1816 Commander Alexander Dixie was no longer in command of Saracen, and she was at Bermuda. 18 Capt. James Murray Brig-sloop. This was probably the vessel left behind at Gibraltar, with Saracen being a typographical mistake for Satelite 10 Cdr. Thomas Carew Brig-sloop. Only as far as Gibraltar, then returning home with dispatches.
Netherlands
Ship Guns Commander Casualties NotesKilledWounded Amstel 44 Capt. Willem Augustus van der Hart 4 6 Frigate Diana 44 Capt. Petrus Zievogel 6 22 FrigateFrederica 44 Capt. Jakob Adrian van der Straaten - 5 Frigate Melampus 44 Vice-adm. Jonkheer Theodorus Frederik van CapellenCapt. Antony Willem de Man 3 15 Frigate, flagship Dageraad 36 Capt. Johannes Martinus Polders - 4 Frigate Eendragt 20 Capt. Jan Frederik Christiaan Wardenburg - - Corvette
Algiers
Ship Guns Notes 4 Frigates 44 1 scuttled, the rest burnt? 5 Corvettes 24-30 Burnt? 30-40 Gunboats and Mortar vessels Burnt? 55 Others?
James mentions that a French frigate of 40 guns, named Ciotat, had warned the Algerines of the coming attack.James (1824), Vol.5, p.575. However, there was no vessel by that name in the French Navy between 1786 and 1861. Other sources refer to Ciotat as a gabarre or a corvette, and make no mention of her being a man-of-war.
Citations
References Anon. "By a Friend of the National Maritime Museum" (1941) "The Battle of Algiers", Mariner's mirror (October 1941), Vol. 27, pp. 324–338.