An item referred to the French magazine Moniteur de la Flotte which reported that according to a tiding received from New York two large steam engines of respectively 900 and 1.500 hp manufactured fro account of the Russian cabinet probably not were shipped towards Russia. The reason was that the manufacturers were to pay for the transport by there was not a company to find which was to ensure the transport while the engines were considered to be war stores.(1) The engines were to be installed in the Russian ships of the line Maarschalk Paskewitch and the Czar.(2)
Notes
1. Crimean war (4 October 1853-12 February 1856) between the Russian empire and the alliance of the British, French and Ottoman empires and the kingdom of Sardinia
2. The original names were translated in Dutch. Probably the Czar is similar with the Imperator Aleksandr I laid down at the New Admiralty Yard Shipyard at St. Petersburg, renamed on 28 July 1855 Imperator Nikolai I and launched on 18 July 1860 and which was a 109-gun steam ship of the line. Maarschalk Paskewitch must be field marshal Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich (8/19 May 1782-1 February/20 January 1856). 
