Battle of Sinop

The Bataille of Sinop is a naval Bataille which took place the November 30th 1853, in the port of Sinop, in the north of the Turkey, during the Crimean War (1853 - 1855). She is regarded as the large last battles of the navy with veils and it is the first major engagement of the conflict.

For a few weeks, several skirmishes had opposed in Black Sea the Russian and Othoman fleets (Combat of Pitsounda). The Turks decided to reinforce their device in the area and several Escadre S was thus sent to cross, of which that of the admiral Osman Pasha, which wet in Sinope, joining the frigate Kaid Zafer , which had belonged to a preceding patrol and was there already. A frigate with vapor (probably the Taif ), shortly after enlarged the Othoman fleet. The Turks would have also wished to send linerships to Sinope, but they were dissuaded from it by the British ambassador in station with Constantinople. Indeed, the the United Kingdom and the France supported the Ottoman Empire against the Russia but did not want the war; when it became probable that it was going nevertheless to burst, they did all that was in their capacity so that Russia is at the origin of the Casus belli.

The Russian fleet, ordered by the admiral Pavel Nakhimov, penetrated in the port of Sinope, in two lines, composed of 3 linerships each one and wet opposite the Othoman line. The battle lasted one hour. The Russians used shells exposifs Paixhans to destroy the Othoman ships, and only the Taif escaped the disaster and succeeds in joining Constantinople it December 2nd, continued by the Russian vapor S.

The battle led France and the United Kingdom to declare the war in Russia, with the beginning of the year 1854, in order to support the Ottoman Empire.

Committed ships

  • Russia

    • Linerships

      • Veliky Knyaz Konstantin 120 guns
      • Tri Sviatitelia 120 guns
      • Parizh 120 guns (vice-admiral)
      • Imperatriitsa Maria 84 guns (Admiral)
      • Chesma 84 guns
      • Rostislav 84 guns

    • Frigates

      • Kulevtcha 54 guns
      • Kagul 44 guns

    • Vapors

      • Odessa 4 guns
      • Krym 4 guns
      • Khersones 4 guns

  • Ottoman Empire

    • Frigates

      • Avni Illah 44 guns
      • Fazl Illah 44 guns (at the origin the Rafail , captured during the war of 1828-1829)
      • Nizamieh 62 guns
      • Nessin Zafer 60 guns
      • Navek Bahri 58 guns
      • Damiat 56 guns (Egyptian)
      • Kaid Zafer 54 guns

    • Corvette S

      • Nejm Fishan 24 guns
      • Feyz Mabud 24 guns
      • Kel Safid 22 guns

    • Frigates/corvettes with vapor

      • Taif 12 guns
      • Erkelye 10 guns

References

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