Navarino became a two-hour destruction of the inner lines

Once the heavy front line collapsed, the Allied ships could concentrate on the smaller vessels behind it. Codrington twice signaled for a ceasefire, but smoke, battle heat, or deliberate disregard kept the firing going. Only eight of roughly 78 Ottoman-Egyptian vessels remained seaworthy, while no Allied ship sank, and some damaged ships were burned by their own crews to prevent capture. The casualty disparity shows how completely a coercive deployment turned into fleet annihilation and explains the ecstatic Greek response to the news.