Navarino's long shadow over the Ottoman Navy

Were the Ottomans simply terrible at naval warfare?

Their deeper problem was that they were still rebuilding after Navarino's enormous losses in ships, guns, and trained personnel.

A viewer characterizes the Ottomans as persistently poor at naval warfare, but the answer reframes the problem as recovery from catastrophe. Navarino had cost the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet three ships of the line, 17 frigates, 30 corvettes, five schooners, and roughly two thousand guns. About four thousand personnel were killed or wounded and another four thousand captured, removing experience as well as hulls and weapons. Rebuilding a navy repeatedly stripped of equipment and trained people was an institutional problem that battlefield competence alone could not solve.