Milo, 12 December 1825. The Spesiotic vessels were still at Spezzia, demanding from the provisional government their part in the prizes, brought this year at Napoli.
Missolunghi, 30 November 1825. In the Kronijk was a small item published dealing with the sea battle of the 21-22nd [October?]. A to be trusted men informed the reporter that the Greek fleet of just 34 ships, commanded by Miaulis, defeated a Turkish fleet of 66 ships. After a fight during two days a fire ship was send to attack the largest Turkish frigate. Unfortunately a gunshot smashed the mainmast over board and she wasn’t able to get nearer the frigate and tried to attack a nearby Turkish brig. However also this effort failed and finally was both fleets forced by a heavy storm to leave the scene.
Murcia, 1 February. The French brig le Volaga (1) arrived after 2 days coming from Mahon at Cartagena. Her commanding officer reported that the French goelette l’Etoile (2), which left Algiers and arrived 19th January at Mahon, brought with her the tiding that Algeria declared war against Spain and that the Spanish consul and his secretary fled to the French consul after being beaten up. A daily order published in the newspaper of Barcelona of 4 February confirmed this tiding brought by the corvette l’Etoile. Recently departed the Spanish corvette Zefiro from Cartagena towards Cadiz. Rumours were that she was with the ship Guerreo destined for Havana.
Source
J. Vichot. Repertoire des navires de guerre français. Paris, 1967.
Notes
1. The brig aviso le Volage laid down at Toulon 1824, launched 1825 and last-mentioned 1856.
2. Mentioned 1815-1849.
