Some notes dealing with the Austrian navy in the period 1835-1839 according to several books

Thanks to projects like Google thousands and thousands of books are digitized and become available through the internet. Most of these books are collector items and not available to the common researcher. I just searched in four of these books for more information dealing with the Austrian navy. Below are the results.

Army and navy chronicle, vol 8-9 Benjamin Homans, p. 294, 9 May 1839, p. 294 “The Austrian navy consists of 8 ships of the line, 8 frigates, 4 corvettes, 6 brigs, 7 schooners, and several lighter vessels; in all 47 sail. Austria, besides, keeps up on the Danube, for the protection of her frontier on the Turkish side, a flotilla of 25 boats, mounting 131 guns, and manned by the battalion of Tschaikists.”

The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge for the year 1838,volumes 9-10, p. 267 “The Austrian Navy is under the management of a naval commandant at Venice. It consists of from 30 to 34 vessels of war, of which 3 are ships of the line in ordinary, 5 frigates, 5 sloops, 8 brigs , and 6 schooners.”

Penny encyclopediea of the Society for the Diffusion if Useful Knowledge, 1835, volumes 3, p. 147 “The Austrian navy is under the management of a naval commandant at Venice, who is accountable to the council of war. It consists of between thirty and thirty-four vessels of war; among which are three ships of the line in ordinary, five frigates, five sloops, eight brigs, and six schooners. The establishments attached to it are a corps of naval artillery and engineers, a cadet academy, and a corps of marines. The flag, which is borne also by the merchant vessels, is of a red ground, with a broad white stripe in the centre.”

James Holman. The narrative of a journey, undertaken in the years 1819,1820 & 1821 etc. p. 206. London, 1822. p. 20 “On the 26th, Lieut. B and myself, accompanied Count K on board the Austrian flag-ship, lying off this port [Naples]. This vessel, named the Austria, was a frigate of forty-four guns, built by the French at Venice, and afterwards taken possession of by the Austrians. We found an English sailor on board, who had entered from one of our merchantmen in the Mediterranean, and who gave us’ no very favourable account of the naval tactics of the Austrians. The officers appeared to want that smartness which we are accustomed to in a British man-of-war; that is, there was a heavy manner about them. We were treated, however, with civility, although we did expect more attention, having been introduced as British naval officers. On the 29th, one of the two Austrian frigates lying here, with two Neapolitan frigates, having under convoy about forty smaller vessels, with eight thousand Austrian troops on board, sailed from hence for Palermo. My friends were highly delighted with this spectacle.”