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Saturday, 21 September 2019

Swedish corvette will be rebuilt as steam gunboat in 1857

For years was in the Netherlands a magazine published dealing with maritime affairs in the whole world, navy and merchant. The corvette still on stocks at the yard of Karlohansvarn was according to a Swedish newspaper to be rebuilt as a steam gunboat of 70 hp and armed with 2 long 60 pdr and 4-3pdr.

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G.A. Tindal en J. Swart. Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen en de zeevaartkunde. Vol 17. Amsterdam, 1857, p. 276. Digitized by Google. Originally published in the Allg. Milit. Zeitung and Swedish newspaper Milit. Tilskuer.