The naval Battle of Palermo took place on 2 June 1676 during the Franco-Dutch War

Franco-Dutch War

The Franco-Dutch War, often called simply the Dutch War was a war fought by France, Sweden, the Bishopric of Münster, the Archbishopric of Cologne and England against the United Netherlands, which were later joined by the Austrian Habsburg lands, Brandenburg and Spain to form a quadruple alliance...

, between a French

France

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 force led by Abraham Duquesne

Abraham Duquesne

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 and a Spanish force supported by a Dutch maritime expedition force. Largely because the Dutch and Spanish ships were at bay making repairs from earlier a battle, the French fleet destroyed four Spanish and three Dutch ships with fireships. This battle secured the supremacy of the French fleet for the remainder of the war.

Netherlands/Spain

• Vrijheid 50 (Adam van Brederode) - Sunk
• Stad en Lande 54 (Joris Andringa)
• Spiegel 70 (Gillis Schey)
• Provincie van Utrecht 60 (Jan de Jong)
• Steenbergen 68 (SbN Pieter van Middelandt) - Sunk
• Kraanvogel 46 (Jacob Willemszoon Broeder)
• Zuiderhuis 46 (Pieter de Sitter)
• Gouda 76 (Vice-Admiral Jan den Haen, killed)
• Leeuwen 50 (Frans Willem, Graaf van Stierum)
• Damiaten 34 (Isaac van Uitterwijk)
• Edam 34 (Cornelis van der Zaan)
• Groenwijf 36 (Juriaan Baak)
• Eendracht 76 (Vice-Admiral Gerard Callenburgh)
• Oosterwijk 60 (Jacob Teding van Berkhout)
• Harderwijk 46 (Mattheus Megang)
• Leiden 36 (Jan van Abkoude) - Sunk
• Wakende Boei 46 (Cornelis Tijloos)

10 or 12 Spanish ships:

Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Capitana Real) 64/74 (1000-1100 crew) Almirante Don Diego de Ibarra (killed) - blown up

Santiago (Nueva Real) 80

San Antonio de Napoles 44/46 (500 crew) - burnt

San Felipe 40/44 - burnt

San Carlo/Salvator delle Fiandre/San Salvador (Almiranta de Flandres) 40/42/48 (350 crew) - burnt

San Joaquin/San Juan 80

San Gabriel 40

Santa Ana 54/60 - probably burnt and salvaged

Nuestra Señora del Rosario 50

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe *

Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Las Animas *

Ships marked * are probable

19 Spanish galleys:

San Jose (Almirante Juan de Villaroel, killed) burnt

San Salvador burnt