Ottoman ship Mahmudiye

Mahmudiye in Istanbul
History
Ottoman Empire
NameMahmudiye
NamesakeMahmud II
OwnerOttoman Navy
BuilderImperial Arsenal, Constantinople
Launched30 November 1828.
Honours and
awards
Title of Gazi awarded to the ship for her role during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)
FateBroken up
General characteristics
Displacementunknown
Tons burthen3,389 bm
Length72 zira, or 65.43 m (214 ft 8 in)
Beam18.19 m (59 ft 8 in)
Armament
  • 1829:
  • lower gundeck: 34 × 11 okka (31 lb shot)
  • middle gundeck: 32 × 11 okka, 2 × 18 okka (50 lb shot)
  • upper gundeck: 34 × 9 okka (25 lb shot)
  • quarterdeck: 26 × 14 okka (40 lb shot)

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 world's few completed heavy first-rate battleships. 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 largest in the Ottoman Navy and among the largest in the world upon her launch in 1828.