Action of 14 April 1655

The Battle of Porto Farina took place at Porto Farina (now Ghar el-Melh) on 4 April 1655 (14 April by modern calendar)^[1]^[2] in northern Tunisia, when an English fleet under General-at-Sea Robert Blake destroyed the vessels of several Barbary corsairs. Blake's fleet destroyed two shore batteries and nine Algerian ships in Porto Farina, the first time shore batteries had been taken out without landing men ashore.^[2]

^ Corbett, Julian Stafford (1904). England in the Mediterranean; a study of the rise and influence of British power within the Straits 1603-1713;. Cornell University Library. London, New York, Bombay Longmans, Green, and co.
^ ^a ^b "Blake in the Mediterranean 1654-5". bcw-project.org. Retrieved 6 April 2023.

[1] Corbett, Julian Stafford (1904). England in the Mediterranean; a study of the rise and influence of British power within the Straits 1603-1713;. Cornell University Library. London, New York, Bombay Longmans, Green, and co.

[:0-2] "Blake in the Mediterranean 1654-5". bcw-project.org. Retrieved 6 April 2023.

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