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Tuesday, 28 September 2021

The Egyptian, Greek and Turkish navies according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 30 November 1825

Trieste, 15 November, The newspaper Osservatore Triestini reported that a master coming from Alexandria mentioned in the morning of the 10th against a ship coming from Tripoly the arrival of the Egyptian-Turkish fleet at Navarino. He arrived self in the evening of the 11th after a voyage of 22 days. According to him numbered that fleet 100 ships included 45 transports consisting of American, Austrian, British, French, Neapolitan and Sardinian ships with 12.000 soldiers (lading troops), 15 fire ships and 2 steamships which departed 5 days before him namely 15 October Alexandria. He came up with the fleet in the waters of Candia and sail with until the 3rd when he left her in the waters of Navarino without seeing anything from the Greek fleet.