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| Keywords: Ottoman ship of the line Mahmudiye.png Mahmudiye 1829 ordered by the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II and built by the Imperial Naval Arsenal on the Golden Horn in Constantinople was for many years the largest warship in the world The 201 x 56 kadem 1 kadem 37 887 cm or 76 15 x 21 22 m ft on kadem which translates as foot is often misinterpreted as equivalent in length to one imperial foot hence the wrongly converted dimensions of 201 x 56 ft or 62 x 17 m in some sources ship-of-the-line was armed with 128 cannons on 3 decks and carried 1 280 sailors on board She participated in many important naval battles including the Siege of Sevastopol 1854-1855 during the Crimean War 1854-1856 She was decommissioned in 1874 This image is in the public domain due to its age Turkish Naval Forces Command Piri Reis History Research Center Historic image from the archives of the Turkish Navy PD-old Mahmudiye ship Golden Horn | ||||
