Zorlu Tuncay. Innovation in empire and Turkey: Sultan Selim III and the Modernisation of the Ottoman Navy

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2008. — 269 p.Evolution of the Ottoman naval technology up to the reign of Selim III.
The state of the Ottoman navy from the Çeflme.
Incident up to the ascension of Selim III to the throne.
Developments in Ottoman.
shipbuilding technology in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The main materials used in the construction of ships in the late-eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire.
The process of shipbuilding in the late eighteenth century.
The introduction of copper sheathing into the Ottoman navy.
New methods, tools, equipment and machines used in naval works.
The construction of new shipbuilding structures and auxiliary forms.
Ottoman experience of naval gunnery in the late eighteenth century.
The role of foreign missions in the Ottoman naval transformation.
French missions.
The Swedish mission.
The British mission.
Missions of other nations.
Ottoman shipbuilders.
The naval ships operating during the reign of Selim III.
Types of Ottoman naval ships constructed in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
Ships constructed and repaired in the reign of Selim III.
Ships purchased from foreign countries and traders.
Ships received as presents or captured at war.