For years was in the Netherlands a magazine published
dealing with maritime affairs in the whole world, navy and merchant.The Russian
navy in the Caspian Sea was divided in two squadrons, each commanded by a rear
admiral, with the supreme command by the admiralty at Astrakan. Both squadrons
consisted of 4 warships, 2 corvettes, 2 steamships and 20 flotilla vessels. Since the last war it was to intention to increase this
admiralty. At that moment were in this city 2 frigates and 5 corvettes with
steampower on stocks.
Source
G.A. Tindal en J. Swart. Verhandelingen en berigten
betrekkelijk het zeewezen en de zeevaartkunde. Vol 17. Amsterdam, 1857, p.
275. Digitized by Google. Originally published in the Monit. de la Fl.
