Trieste, 20 February. According to tidings from Corfu dated the 9th was Ibrahim Pasha the 3rd at Patras and must sight some days earlier the burning by Miaulis of a Turkish frigate in that harbour.
21 February. A vessel which left Constantinople 22 February reported that colonel Accurti, commanding officer of the Austrian division in the Archipelago, arrived with the brig Montecuculi (1) at Constantinople, departed 6 days later towards the Archipelago. At Constantinople were 8 warships fitted out, destined for the Archipelago. Vessels arriving from Alexandria reported the meeting with a French vessel at sea, her deck covered with blood, being at the mercy of the waves.
Sources
Karl Gogg. Osterreichs Kriegsmarine 1440-1448.
Lawrence Sondhaus. The Habsburg Empire and the Sea, Austrian Naval Policy, 1797-1866. Indiana.
Note
1. The 16-gun brig Montecuccoli, building started at Venice 1809, taken over by Austria 25 April 1814 still on stocks, launched 22 March 1817 and completed 1817. Rebuilt in 1830-1831 and 1836, hulk 1868, stricken and sold 1872.
