Battle of Palermo

The naval Battle of Palermo took place on 2 June 1676 during the Franco-Dutch War, between a French force led by Abraham Duquesne and a Spanish force supported by a Dutch maritime expedition force. Largely because the Dutch and Spanish ships were at bay making repairs from earlier a battle, the French fleet destroyed four Spanish and three Dutch ships with fireships. This battle secured the supremacy of the French fleet in the Mediterranean until 1678.

France (Abraham Duquesne)

 * Nine warships
 * Seven galleys
 * Five fireships

Netherlands/Spain

 * Vrijheid 50 (Adam van Brederode) - Sunk
 * Stad en Lande 54 (Joris Andringa)
 * Spiegel 70 (Gilles Schey)
 * Provincie van Utrecht 60 (Jan de Jong)
 * Steenbergen 68 (SbN Pieter van Middelandt) - Sunk
 * Kraanvogel 46 (Jacob Willemszoon Broeder)
 * Zuiderhuis 46 (Pieter de Sitter)
 * Gouda 76 (Vice-Admiral Jan den Haen, killed)
 * Leeuwen 50 (Frans Willem, Graaf van Stierum)
 * Damiaten 34 (Isaac van Uitterwijk)
 * Edam 34 (Cornelis van der Zaan)
 * Groenwijf 36 (Juriaan Baak)
 * Eendracht 76 (Vice-Admiral Gerard Callenburgh)
 * Oosterwijk 60 (Jacob Teding van Berkhout)
 * Harderwijk 46 (Mattheus Megang)
 * Leiden 36 (Jan van Abkoude) - Sunk
 * Wakende Boei 46 (Cornelis Tijloos)

10 or 12 Spanish ships: Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Capitana Real) 64/74 (1000-1100 crew) Almirante Don Diego de Ibarra (killed) - blown up Santiago (Nueva Real) 80 San Antonio de Napoles 44/46 (500 crew) - burnt San Felipe 40/44 - burnt San Carlo/Salvator delle Fiandre/San Salvador (Almiranta de Flandres) 40/42/48 (350 crew) - burnt San Joaquin/San Juan 80 San Gabriel 40 Santa Ana 54/60 - probably burnt and salvaged Nuestra Señora del Rosario 50 Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe * Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Las Animas *

Ships marked * are probable

19 Spanish galleys: San Jose (Almirante Juan de Villaroel, killed) burnt San Salvador burnt