The tsarist navy enjoyed an impressive string of victories against the Turks.
If you can find it, I recommend R.C. Anderson’s “Naval Wars in the Levant,” published back in the 1950s, I believe.
I expect that any interested FReeper will need to go to interlibrary loan to get a copy sent from a university collection.
Anderson’s book is rather dry but it has tons of obscure information, including orders of battle listing individual ships.
Of course, there’s always the Wikipedia for quick reference, but I never take the Wikipedia as the last word on anything.
I believe Catherine’s admiral Ushakov was easily one of the most accomplished naval commander of all times. He fought 43 battles mainly against the Turks who were the top naval power, Arab navies, Limey bastards and never lost any. And he usually delivered a crushing defeat. A guy in class of Nimitz easily.
Black sea naval warfare reminds me of the battles we fought here on the Great Lakes. Kinda a naval oddity.