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Thursday 17 October 2019

Warships burnt in Turkish arsenal at Constantinople according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Courant dated 19 August 1823

This local newspaper published a news item dated Odessa 22 July according to which the Triton brought with her the tiding that in the morning of 13 July the arsenal was set into fire causing the burning of one 72 gun ship of the line still on stocks, 2 corvettes, 5 brigs and 110 smaller vessels.