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    Default Arab, Turkish, and Indian navies

    I thought this would be a rather interesting topic. Now I am somewhat familiar with turkish and arab ships but not Indian but any ways I foung this quote from an expert found here http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7304
    Here is the bit that relates to ETW

    The ships which constitute the Ottoman Navy can be divided two groups: Çektiri or Çekdirme (the galley-type, oared ships) and galleon-type sailing ships. Çektiris were powered by oars and sails, and the large galleon type ships used sails alone. Somewhere between the oared galleys and the galleons fall the baştarda, kadırga, mavna, kalyata, firkete and pergandi. Even smaller sailing ships, include the karamürsel, palaşlermeler and slimmer, navy ships.

    Sailing ships

    At the end of the fifteenth century, in paralel with the development of Ottoman maritime affairs in the Mediterranean, the Ottomans started to build not only oared ships but also sailing ships. In the sixteenth century, the Ottomans preferred oared ships; sailing ships were not developed until the middle of seventeenth century. In this period, the Ottomans started to build many types of galleons with different features; göke (Kogge, Coge: a çektiri-type of warship with oars and sails), barça (barge: a two or three-masted sailing warship with a falt bottom), ağribar (a small, single-masted sailing warship, rather used for trading transportations), kalyon (galleon: a three-masted sailing warship). New type of sailing ships with different features developed during the eighteenth century; burtun, karavele (caravelle: sailing warship), firkateyn (frigate: a single-deck, single-masted sailing warship smaller than a galleon), kapak (two-deck, galleon-type warship), korvet (corvette: a three-masted sailing warship), brik (brig: a single-deck, two-masted, full and square rigged, fast sailing warship), şalope / çalope (sloop: small sailing battleship without hold), şeftiye /şitye (a two-masted sailing ship), uskuna (schooner: a two-masted sailing warship), kotra / kotr or koter (a single-masted, slimmer, lighter and shorter sloop-type sailing ship), pink (one of the smaller sailing ships), gulet (galeotta /galliot: a two-masted, light frigate sailing ship smaller than brik (brig), ateş gemisi / bomba gemisi (a ship full of explosive materials).

    Now I hope that CA can make resonable ships for the indian and turk, and arab factions and not just some crappy Dhows!!!! The Ottomans didnt even go with modern ships until the Russian-Ottoman Wars of 1768 - 1774?
    Any other thoughts on the subject?
    Last edited by Khazar_Dahvos; 08-24-2008 at 17:53.

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