Editing Tipu Sultan (section)

===Navy===
In 1786 Tipu Sultan, again following the lead of his father, decided to build a navy consisting of 20 battleships of 72 cannons and 20 frigates of 65 cannons. In the year 1790 he appointed Kamaluddin as his ''Mir Bahar'' and established massive dockyards at [[Jamalabad]] and Majidabad. Tipu Sultan's board of admiralty consisted of 11 commanders in service of a ''Mir Yam''. A ''Mir Yam'' led 30 admirals and each one of them had two ships. Tipu Sultan ordered that the ships have [[copper sheathing|copper-bottoms]], an idea that increased the longevity of the ships and was introduced to Tipu by [[Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez|Admiral Suffren]].{{sfn|Roy|2011|p=22}}