Editing Battle of Preveza (section)

===Fights===
[[File:IAN 0137 Urrabieta y Ortiz 1859 Preveza.jpg|thumb|Machín de Munguía's vessel fighting in Preveza.]]
One way or another, the sailing ships were under attack. The huge Venetian flagship ''Candia'' or ''Galeone di Venezia'', captained by Alessandro Condalmiero, had been left stranded 4 miles off the coast and 10 miles off Sessola. Condalmiero was surrounded by dozens of Ottoman galleys, which he initially fended off with the ship's heavy artillery, but Barbarossa's ships managed to position themselves on his ship's blind spots and pepper the Venetian ship, which Condalmiero attempted to turn around in order to present broadsides. The ship fought fiercely for the entire day waiting for galleys that never came, ending up damaged in the process, although ultimately managing to avoid being captured, even after Barbarossa's flagship joined the fray.{{sfnp|Fernández Duro|1895|p=237}}

The Spanish and Genoese sailing ships also fought back by sheer firepower. The two main flagship, captained by Francisco Sarmiento and Juan Villegas de Figueroa, repulsed multiple Ottoman attacks. Figueroa was eventually boarded and overwhelmed, forcing his marine infantry to fight in a last stand, until the vessel received so much damage that it sank. Another ship captained by Machín de Munguía with another marine company faced another batch of dozens of Turkish galleys, becoming dismasted and severely damaged in the process, although ultimately escaping unboarded.{{sfnp|Fernández Duro|1895|p=238}} In the rest of the sailing fleet, several ships fired back to the attackers, while in others, the crews lost hope of being helped and abandoned the ships.{{sfnp|Fernández Duro|1895|p=237}}

By the end of the day, the Turks had sunk, destroyed or captured 128 ships and taken approximately 3,000 prisoners.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-22 |title=Denizcilerin piri: Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/portre/denizcilerin-piri-barbaros-hayrettin-pasa-/1522954 |access-date=2024-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022062651/https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/portre/denizcilerin-piri-barbaros-hayrettin-pasa-/1522954 |archive-date=22 October 2020 }}</ref> The Turks did not lose any ships, but they suffered 400 dead and 800 wounded.