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Friday 20 January 2012

The beginning of the Prussian navy according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 25 March 1775

According to an item dated Stettin 15 March sent the king a commission to England to buy there for his account some warships of different classes. Together with the frigates which were now being build at Stettin were these ships to found a Prussian navy.

See the note on the weblog placed on 27 January 2012 titled Prussian privateers fitted out at Stettin according to the Dutch magazine Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius dated June 1759