Action of 14 April 1655
1655 naval battle between English forces and Barbary pirates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Porto Farina took place at Porto Farina (now Ghar el-Melh) on April 4, 1655[1][2] in northern Tunisia, when an English fleet under Robert Blake destroyed the vessels of several Barbary corsairs. Blakes 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]