Thanks to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are able to read books that are some times for decades no longer available for the public for several reasons. That’s quite a pity while these books contains useful information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor accessible. In his book for politicians and merchants Martin described all the countries part of the so-called civilised world. If available he published information dealing with the armed forces and the merchant trade shipping.
p. 567. “From a recent report of the Italian Navy Minister it appears that during the year 1868 three ironclads were completed in the Italian dockyards. These vessels were the Venezia, a frigate; the Caracciolo, a corvette; and the Alfredo Cappellini, a gunboat. Their aggregate tonnage was 8,000, their steam power 1,270. Four other ironclads were in course of construction at the end of the year 1868, and the works were being pushed forward with great activity. Italy is now building her war vessels in her own dockyards, and fitting them for sea without foreign assistance, except in the case of the guns, which are of the Armstrong pattern, and which have accordingly to be obtained from England.”
Source
Van Nostrands’s Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume I, 1869.
The Venezia
p. 567. “From a recent report of the Italian Navy Minister it appears that during the year 1868 three ironclads were completed in the Italian dockyards. These vessels were the Venezia, a frigate; the Caracciolo, a corvette; and the Alfredo Cappellini, a gunboat. Their aggregate tonnage was 8,000, their steam power 1,270. Four other ironclads were in course of construction at the end of the year 1868, and the works were being pushed forward with great activity. Italy is now building her war vessels in her own dockyards, and fitting them for sea without foreign assistance, except in the case of the guns, which are of the Armstrong pattern, and which have accordingly to be obtained from England.”
Source
Van Nostrands’s Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume I, 1869.
