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English: Wreck of an Egyptian Vessel of War between Constantinople and Varna. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 2 December 1854.

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Loss of Egyptian vessels of war in the Black Sea. The night of 30th October, the western coast of that sea was visited by one of the most terrific tempests on record. / two Egyptian ships of war returning from the Crimea / The frigate Bahiré went on the breakers of Kara Bournon, at eight o'clock in the evening, only two leagues from the mouth of the Bosphorus (Bosporus). In one hour she went to pieces, and out of four hundred souls, only a hundred and thirty in reaching the shore alive. The other was a three-decker, called the Muphtahi Djehat, and had the Egyptian Admiral on board, said to Egypt's most skilful naval commander,. / driven on the shores of Euiada, midway between Constantinople and Varna. Out of 900 men composing the crew, it is painful to record that 795, including the Admiral were lost. In the accompanying sketch, the Muphtahi Djehat is represented on the craggy rocks of Euiada. Not a vestige of the ill fated vessel remains to mark the spot, where she perished.

From Russkii Invalid, No. 263, 24 November, 1854 (Using the Zeit and L'Independence Belge):

The Triest Gazette reports: "The two lost Egyptian naval ships which on 30 (18) October were wrecked on the coast of Rumelia, were: the three-deck ship of the line Muftakhi-Dzhegat and the frigate Bakhiri (in earlier reports the names were switched). The death of Admiral Hassan-Pasha, who is confirmed as among those who perished, caused great sorrow. Of the Egyptian crew, 800 men perished in the waves; of the 140 men who succeeded in reaching the shore by swimming, 50 were were put to death by the Greeks living there, while the rest have arrived in Constantinople in very bad shape. Because all Allied steamships were otherwise engaged, the Austrian naval steamer Custozza was sent to the Black Sea to rescue the survivors of this shipwreck. But the Black Sea was so rough from two weeks of storms that the steamship Custozza had to spend several days off the mouth of the Bosphorus before it dared to approach the dangerous coast."