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Tuesday, 13 December 2011

A frigate presented by the French crown to the Dey of Algeria according to the Dutch newspaper Ommelander Courant dated 15 December 1789

Genoa, 14 November. A Danish master coming from Algiers reported that in the harbour of Algiers a 22-gun frigate arrived which was presented by the French king to the Dey to compensate for the Algerian frigate which was two years ago destroyed in French waters by Neapolitan warships.