Ottoman ship Mahmudiye
Mahmudiye in Istanbul | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Mahmudiye |
| Owner | Ottoman Navy |
| Builder | Imperial Arsenal, Constantinople |
| Launched | 30 November 1828. |
| Decommissioned | 1878 |
| Honours & awards | Title of Gazi awarded to the ship for her role during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | unknown |
| Length | 76.15 m (249 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 21.22 m (69 ft 7 in) |
| Armament | 128 guns on three decks |
Mahmudiye was a ship of the line of the Ottoman Navy. It was a three-masted three-decked 128-gunned sailing ship, which could perhaps be considered to be one of the few completed heavy first-rate battleships in the world. Mahmudiye, with a roaring lion as the ship's figurehead, was intended to serve to reconstitute the morale of the nation after the loss of the fleet at the Battle of Navarino in 1827. The flagship was for many years the largest warship in the world.