Action of 14 April 1655

The Battle of Porto Farina took place at Porto Farina (now Ghar el-Melh) on April 4, 1655 in northern Tunisia, when an English fleet under Robert Blake destroyed the vessels of several Barbary corsairs. Blakes fleet destroyed two shore batteries and nine Algerian ships in Porto Farina, the first time shore batteries had been taken out without landing men ashore.