The Battle of Cape Kaliakra was the last naval battle of the Russo_Turkish War of 1787-92. It took place on 11 August1791 off the coast of northern Bulgaria in the Black Sea. Neither side lost a ship, but the Turks retreated to Istanbul afterwards.
Ships involved:
Russia
Rozhdestvo Christovo 84 (flag) Ioann Predtecha 74 Maria Magdalina 66 Preobrazhenie Gospodne 66 Sv. Pavel 66 Sv. Vladimir 66 Leontii Mutchenik 62 Sv. Aleksandr Nevskii 50 Sv. Andrei Pervozvannyi 50 Sv. Nikolai 50 Feodor Stratilat 46 Ioann Bogoslov 46 Navarchia Vosnesenie Gospodne 46 Sv. Petr Apostol 46 Tsar Konstantin 46 Fanagoria 40 Makropolea Sv. Mark Evangelist 36 Rozhdestvo Christovo (bomb) Sv. Ieronim (bomb) ? (fireship) ? (repeater ship) Panagia Apotumengana (privateer) 14 16 privateers
Turkey
18 battleships 10 large frigates 7 smaller frigates
Kaliakra (Bulgarian: ÐалиакÑа; Romanian: Caliacra) is a long and narrow headland in the Southern Dobruja region of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located 12 km east of Kavarna and 60 km northeast of Varna.
Kaliakra is a nature reserve, where dolphins, cormorants and pinnipeds can be observed, and features the remnants of the fortified walls, water-main, baths and residence of Despot Dobrotitsa's mediaeval capital.
Kaliakra was the site of the naval Battle of CapeKaliakra on 11 August1791, part of the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792.
CapeKaliakra protrudes 2 km into the sea, lying 12 km to the east of Kavarna and 60 km to the northeast of Varna.
The decline of the fortress occurred with its conquest by the Ottoman invaders.
The legend of capeKaliakra tells about forty Bulgarian girls, who tied their long plaits of hair together and jumped to their deaths in the sea, rather than being captured by the Ottoman enslavers.
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