Vienna, 17 April. On Thursday was at the yard at Closter Neuburg a newly built 36-gun Donau frigate launched built according to a new design. That day arrived at 17.00 the emperor and his wife, the Arch Dukes and Arch duchess and the duke of Saxen Teschen to sight the launching. Baron van Ripke, upper lieutenant of the shipbuilding and supervisor general of the bridges prepared some days earlier the equipment necessary for the launching. The imperial family waited in a tent on a small hill while a part of the newly founded battalion of shipwrights and pontonniers commanded by the colonel van Magdeburg marched for the tent. When this was finished was the frigate launched while several of her guns were fired which salute was answered by the other warships there lying anchored.
