List of ships of the line of Malta

This is a list of Maltese battleships: The Knights of St John were a small but competent and constantly involved naval power from before 1500. In 1522 they were expelled from Rhodes by the Turks, ending up in Malta in 1530. Their independence (and fleet) lasted until 12 June 1798, when Napoleon I of France, on his way to conquer Egypt, captured the entire remaining Maltese navy. Some of these ships were later captured by the British when they recaptured Malta in 1800, and Malta remained under British control until 1964.


 * Santa Anna (1522) - Decommissioned 1540
 * ? 40 (ex-Tunisian, captured 1628)
 * ? 46 (ex-Tunisian, captured 1640)
 * ? (ex-Turkish, captured 1644)
 * ? 54 (ex-Turkish, captured 1654) - Sank soon after capture 1654
 * Beneghem 66 (ex-Turkish Sultana Berenghemi, captured 1700)
 * San Giovanni 64/70 (c. 1703)
 * San Giacomo 64/70 (c. 1703)
 * Santa Croce 44/46/50 (ex-Tunisian La Rosa/Rose of Tunis, captured 1706)
 * San Raimondo 46 (possibly same as Santa Croce, above)
 * Santa Caterina 64/70
 * ? 56? (ex-Tripolitan, captured 1709)
 * ? (ex-Algerine Half Moon 40, captured 1713)
 * San Giovanni 60/64 (1718) - BU 1753
 * San Giorgio 60/64 (1719)
 * San Vicenzo 50 (1720)
 * ? 48 (ex-Tripolitan, captured 1723)
 * San Antonio di Padova 52/60/64 (1727) - BU 1765
 * ? 48 (ex-Turkish ?, captured 1732)
 * San Giovanni (1755) - BU 1765
 * San Salvatore 70/80 (ex-Turkish "Corona Ottomana", captured when her slaves mutinied 1760) - To France 1760/61, returned to Turkey 1761
 * San Zaccaria 64 (1765) - Captured by France 1798 and renamed Dégo, captured by Britain 1800
 * San Giovanni 60-66 (1768/69) - To Naples 1781/84
 * San Giacomo/San Gioacchino/St Joachim (1769/70) - To Naples 1781/84
 * San Giovanni 64 (1798) - Captured by France 1798 and renamed Athénien, captured by Britain 1800, storm 1806