The navy of the Order of Saint John, also known as the Maltese Navy, was the navy of the Knights Hospitaller. Established in the Middle Ages during the 12th century, it moved to Hospitaller Malta in 1
Late 18th-century illustration of a galley of the navy of the Order of Saint John entering Valletta's Grand Harbour
Naval Flags Sovereign Military Order of Malta
A painting showing Maltese galleys capturing an Ottoman vessel in the Malta Channel in 1652.
Model of a Maltese ship of the line at the Malta Maritime Museum
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The Papal Navy was the maritime force of the Papal States. Loosely constituted, it was sporadically extant from approximately the Battle of Ostia during the pontificate of Leo IV until the ascension o
The Immacolata Concezione, an armed steam-powered corvette which served as the flagship (and papal yacht) of the mid-to-late 19th-century Papal Navy
San Paolo as HMS Speedy off Leghorn on 21 March 1800