User:Peter Isotalo/galley/stats


 * Ottoman Empire
 * 1501: 50 heavy galleys, 200 galleys, 150 galiots and fustas
 * 1517: <100 galleys
 * 1534: 82 galleys
 * 1537: 82 galleys
 * 1538: 90 galleys, 50 galiots at Prevesa
 * 1539: 58 large galleys, 82 galleys at siege of Catelnuovo
 * 1552: 103 galleys in Western Mediterranean
 * 1560: 85 galleys at Djerba
 * 1565: 140 galleys at siege of Malta
 * 1570: 160 galleys at invasion of Cyprus
 * 1571: c. 230 galleys at Lepanto
 * 1572: 140-25 galleys, 5 galleasses despite huge losses at Lepanto (note ease of rebuilding galley hulls)
 * 1573: 250 galleys, 15 galleasses; all-time high
 * 1575-1644: 45-70 galleys normally (100 at most)
 * 1645-69: 60-80 galleys, 5-10 galleasses in the wars against Venice
 * 1676: 60 galleys
 * 1684: 40 galleys
 * 1686: 40 galleys
 * 1690-1710: 30 galleys
 * 1730: 17 galleys, 8 galiots
 * 1736-39: 15-30 galleys (war with Russia)
 * 1734: 25 galleys
 * 1745: 12 galleys
 * 1768-74: 13 galleys lost at battle of Tchesma in 1770; some operating in Black Sea
 * 1788: 4 galleys; 1 flagship galleys (possibly last Ottoman war galleys, nothing heard from them after that)
 * also squadrons of Ottoman galleys in Red Sea at Suez; Persian Gulf


 * Venice
 * permanent standing fleet (rare at the time) of 25-30 galleys during most of the 16th century
 * usually put a minimum of 50 galleys to sea during wars; up to c. 100
 * 17th-18th centuries: peacetime force of 16 galleys (and 2-4 galleasses until c. 1620); reduced to 12 after 1718 and then gradually replaced with galiots, xebecs and light sailing ships for patrols
 * 1783: 9 galleys, 1 brigantine, 4 xebecs
 * 1633: reserve fleet of 50 galleys, 6 galleasses
 * 1644: war fleet of 85 galleys
 * 1651-61: 22-24 galleys during campaigns
 * 1683-99: 28 galleys (1684)
 * 1714-18: 15-18 galleys (through 21 galleys in service, 35 in reserve, 37 under construction in 1711)
 * 1619-1669: 340 galleys, 35 flagships, 30 galleasses built in the Arsenal (peak in 1640s)
 * 1797 (year of Napoleon's conquest): 23 galleys (12 active), 7 galiots, 50 gunboats


 * Habsburg Spain
 * permanent force from 1523: Galleys of Spain, 4-10 galleys
 * Galleys of Spain: 25 (1567-71), 33-46 (1572-78), 20+ (1581-94); 8 (1596-1606); 12-15 (1610s)
 * 1530s-60s: 40 permanent galley, 60 in wartime
 * 1561-71: 55-100 galleys
 * 1574: 146 galleys
 * 1598-1616: 63-75 galleys
 * 1637-41: 40 galleys
 * 1646: 30 galleys
 * 1674-79: 20-30 galleys
 * 1701: 30 galleys
 * 1578-1615: 6 galleys in Caribbean Cartagena, Havana, Santo Domingo


 * France
 * 1500-20: 10 (or fewer) royal galleys
 * 1545: 37 galleys (25 participated in attack on England)
 * 1548(-59?): permanent force of 40 galleys (30 in Mediterranean, 10 in Atlantic)
 * 1550: 50 galleys
 * 1578-80: 14-20 galleys, though few servicable
 * 1590: 0 galleys, all destroyed or disabled in the civil war
 * 1610: one dozen galleys and "entrepreneur" vessels


 * Knights of Saint John
 * 15: galleys
 * 16: galleys
 * 17: galleys


 * Papal State(s)
 * considerable galley forces hired from Venice, Tuscany, Genoa, etc
 * 1500-60: 3 galleys, all lost at Djerba 1560
 * 1560s: 0 galleys
 * 1573: 6 galleys
 * 1587-1605: 10 galleys
 * 1605: 5 galleys
 * 1740s: 4 galleys
 * 1755-97: 5 galleys (2 of which in reserve), ended by Napoleon


 * Genoa
 * no permanent navy, "galley entrepreneurs" hired out vessels to other Christian powers
 * 1559: 1-3 galleys
 * 1559-83: 3-4 galleys
 * 1586-1607: 6-8 galleys
 * 1620s-30s: 6-7 galleys
 * 1642: 6 and 2-9 locally armed galleys (from Ligurian coastal cities)
 * 1650-: 6-7 + some local galleys
 * galley force existed until the end of the Genoese republic in 1797 (Napoleon)


 * Portugal
 * no reliable sources
 * "light galley-type vessels" in Indian Ocean


 * post-Habsburg successor states
 * mostly anti-corsair forces
 * no forces larger than 5-8 galleys (Naples in late 18th century)
 * last Spanish galleys out service in 1808
 * last Habsburg galleys (Austrian) disappeared in 1725