Maritime History

Action of 15 February 1700

The Action of 15 February 1700 was a naval engagement between the Maltese and the Tunisian galleys. The Maltese galley encountered a Tunisian ship. The engagement ended in disaster for the Maltese as their ship crashed after a collision, destroying the ship and killing the majority of its crew.

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See also

• ▸HMS Nimrod (1812)
• ▸Cultural depictions of Napoleon
• ▸Allied invasion of Sicily

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