There was a series of battles that took place in 1697 when the Venetian fleet, under Bartolomeo Contarini, hunted down the Turkish fleet in the Aegean Sea.
Actions
The actions took place on 6 July near Lemnos, on 1 September between Andros and Euboea, and on 20 September south of Euboea. Both sides had about twenty-six battleships as well as several smaller vessels. Casualties for Venice were seventy-one killed and 163 wounded in the first battle and 191 killed and 516 wounded in the last.
Order of battle
=== Venice === (The number after the name refers to the number of cannon in the ship's main armament.) San Lorenzo Giustinian 70/80 (flag) Aurora 80 San Domenico 60 Valor Coronado 54 Nettuno 50/60 Rosa 60 Fenice 56 Fede Guerriera 56 Iride 60/66 San Sebastiano 68 – Blew up, 1 (or 2?) September Tigre 66 Giove 64 Sole d'Oro 70 Rizzo d'Oro (not in 1st battle) Amazzone Guerriera (not in first battle) Redentore del Mundo 70 Venere Armata 52 Vittoria 50/60 San Nicolo 54 Sacra Lega 60 San Andrea 60 Ercole Vittorioso 50/60 Pace ed Abbondanza 50 San Vittorio 62 San Giovanni Battista Grande 60 Madonna della Salute 50 Fama Volante 50 Cavallo Marino (merchantman) Madonna del Rosario (merchantman) ? (fireship) – Expended 20 September ? (fireship) several galliots and galleys (one of each captured during the first battle)
=== Ottoman Empire === 1 3-decker battleship (likely to have been a seventy or eighty gunner) 25 other battleships (likely to have been fifty to sixty four gunners) 19 galliots (more galliots joined before the third battle) 2 fireships
== References == Anderson, R. C. (1952). Naval Wars in the Levant 1559–1853. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
