The Austrian naval strength according to a Dutch magazine in 1849

For years was in the Netherlands a magazine published dealing with maritime affairs. It contained notes dealing with the Royal Dutch Navy and the Dutch merchant shipping/trade, but also supplied information dealing with foreign navies, especially of France and Great Britain. Occasionally we can find information dealing with the navies of other countries Russia, United States or even Mexico. In the Dutch magazine was an item published dealing with the navy of Austria found in the United Serv. Magazine dated November 1849, but earlier published in the Soldaten Freund. This navy consisted 1 May 1849 of 3 frigates, 2 corvettes, 5 brigs, 2 schooners, 3 war steamships, 2 gunboats, 7 trabakels, 1 aragozzo, 2 gun chaloupes and 27 peniches, excluded the ships captured from Venice. The minister of war declared earlier that the Austrian fleet of Venice was to transferred from Pola towards Triëst and that the orders no longer were given in the Italian language as was common but from then on in High German.

Source

G.A. Tindal en J. Swart. Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen en de zeevaartkunde. Vol 10. Amsterdam, 1850, p. 474. Digitized by Google.