Military ·Early Modern ·Transregional ·Mediterranean

Naval Engagements of the Age of Sail, 1650–1815

Fleet actions across the Atlantic and Mediterranean theatres.

1,492 records 1650–1815 CE 40.37° N · 5.73° W

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Fig. 1 Interactive distribution of the 1,492 geolocated records on a live carto-positron base · globe / flat projection · decimal degrees (WGS 84).

Abstract

A georeferenced catalogue of naval engagements during the age of sail, from single-ship actions to fleet battles. Each record carries an engagement date, the principal belligerents, and an approximate position derived from logbooks and prize records.

Record

Theme	Military — conflict & fortification
Region	Mediterranean
Temporal range	1650–1815 CE
Geographic coverage	Transregional
Records	1,492 geolocated entities
Data source	Wikidata + curated CSV
Centroid	40.37° N · 5.73° W
Last revised	Apr 2026

Provenance & sources

Compiled from a curated CSV corpus (n = 1,492) and reconciled against Wikidata entities. Geographic coordinates were verified against published gazetteers prior to publication.

· accessed 2026-04-12

SPARQL query

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?coord ?inception WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 ?class . ?item wdt:P625 ?coord . OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P571 ?inception . } SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }

Recommended citation

Ortelius Editorial Board, ed. “Naval Engagements of the Age of Sail, 1650–1815” [dataset]. Ortelius: A Research Atlas of Thematic Cartography, Study AT-016. 2026. doi:10.5281/ortelius.016

DATASET CC BY 4.0 · ENRICHMENT CC0 · CARTOGRAPHY MIT

Data & reproducibility

The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.016.

↓ data.csv ↓ data.geojson