An item dated Memel, Lithuania the 18th reported the arrival in the roads that day of the British brig Gorgon (1) captain Crawford coming from Farosund bringing with a Russian prize loaded with rye, salt, iron and wheat. The prize was towed by the steamboat Jack into the harbour.(2)
Notes
1. The paddle steam frigate, being a rebuilt 5th rate, launched at Pembroke Dock, England on 31 August 1837, broken up in 1864, with a 1.111 tons builders measurement and an armament of 6 guns?
2. The Russian empire was between October 1853 and February 1856 in war with the Ottoman, French and British empires and the kingdom of Sardinia; the so-called Crimean war.
