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Saturday, 11 July 2020

The strength of the navy of the kingdom of the Sicilies in December 1857

According to a note in this magazine this navy consisted of 2-84 guns ships, 2-60-guns frigates, 3-44 guns frigates, 1-32 gun corvette, 3 brigantines, 1 cutter, 1 bomb, all sailing vessels and of steamships 11 frigates, 4 corvettes, 4 aviso’s and 4 goelettes. Furthermore were 69 gunboats and some small vessels. The available officers consisted of 1 vice-admiral, 3 rear-admirals, 12 captains 1st class, 10 captains 2nd class, 12 captain-lieutenants and 10 lieutenants 1st class.

Source
G.A. Tindal en J. Swart. Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen en de zeevaartkunde. Vol 5. Amsterdam, 1858, p. 172. Digitized by Google. Apparently the orginal source was the Monitor de la Flotte, dated 20 December 1857.