Bombardment of Algiers order of battle

This is a listing of the fleets that participated in the Bombardment of Algiers on August 27, 1816.

British
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.

Algiers
James mentions that a French frigate of 40 guns, named Ciotat, had warned the Algerines of the coming attack. 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.