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544 Mahmut Halef Cevrioğlu

British Library - Sloane 3584, f.78v. M.H. Cevrioğlu, Tulû’î’nin Paşaname’si ya
da Karadeniz’de Bir Deniz Cenginin Anlatımı (1629),
«Türk Savaş Çalışmaları Dergisi», 3, no. 1, (2022), 86-102, on p. 97.

Fig. 4 – Detail from a Miniature Showing an Ottoman Galley (ca. 1630)

Furthermore, the bastarda of Uzun Piyale, the chamberlain of the
arsenal (tersane kethüdası), had to withdraw from the battle in the
face of the damages it suffered from the Hector and William and Ralph.
Uzun Piyale’s bastarda was, one must keep in mind, run by a crew of
287 excluding the soldiers on board, suggesting that this galley alone
was three times as crowded as the two English ships combined .
77
The alternation of boarding attempts on the part of the assailants
and repelling on that of the defendants was the accustomed manner
of naval combat in the early modern era . Nonetheless, Memi Beg’s
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death and Uzun Piyale’s withdrawal from the fray drove Grand Admiral
Cafer Pasha to such an extreme rage as to take a technically rather
wrong step.

77 Boa, Mad.d, 981, p. 27; Naima Mustafa Efendi, Tarih-i Naima, p. 783.
78 N.A.M. Rodger, The Development of Broadside Gunnery, 1450–1650, «The
Mariner's Mirror», 82, no. 3 (1996), pp. 301-324, on p. 316.

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