- Source: HMS Janissary
HMS Janissary or Janizary was a gun-boat that served in the Royal Navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March – 2 September 1801). She appears in the records only in connection with the campaign and her origins before 1800 or service after 1801 are lost. Her name honours the Janissaries, a body of Ottoman troops.
On 2 March, while under the command of Lieutenant John Whilley, Janissary, together with the cutter Cruelle and the gun-vessel Dangereuse, protected the left flank during the landing of troops in Aboukir Bay. The cutter Entreprenante, schooner Malta, and the gun-vessel Negresse covered the right flank. Janissary's officers and crew therefore qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.
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References
Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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- HMS Janissary
- HMS Entreprenante (1799)
- List of battles 1801–1900
- HMS Malta (1800 schooner)
- HMS Tartarus (1797)
- Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
- French invasion of Egypt and Syria
- Early modern warfare
- HMS Dangereuse (1799)
- Crimean War
