Hamburg, 14 May. In Kiel were 300 sailors recruited to attack the Danish 18-gun corvette Galathea the same evening. Each sailor was directly 10 daalders paid and an monthly payment of another 10 daalders promised and each sailor was to get a bounty of 50 daalders if the attack was successful. According to intelligence tidings was the corvette very weak so an attack was probably to succeed. A part of the volunteer corps was to join the sailors.The citizens of Hamburg intended to attack with 3 steamboats the Danish 46-gun warship at their harbour.
Note
1. According to the website http://www.navalhistory.dk/english/theships/g/galathea(1833).htm was she launched on 6 October 1831 at the naval dockyard at Gammelholm, Copenhagen and decommissioned on 4 July 1861. She was armed with 26-18pdr guns and 6-4pdr guns. Dimensions were 42,2 x 10,2 x 4,5 metres.
