The Lupa was an Ottoman galley ship, the flagship of Mustapha Basha, Commander of the Turkish Galleys of Rhodes.[1] It is notable for being the site of a slave revolt by its galley slaves in 1748.[2]
Slave uprising edit
Hungarian, Georgian and Maltese slaves on board the ship Lupa revolted and sailed the ship to Malta.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Cassar, Paul (1965). Medical History of Malta. London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library. p. 119. OCLC 1024674452.
- ^ Castillo, Dennis Angelo (2006). The Maltese Cross: A Strategic History of Malta. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 90–91. ISBN 9780313323294.
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