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Thursday, 9 May 2019

French naval movements in the Mediterranean according to Dutch newspapers in 1858

The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad daily edition dated 22 May published an item dated Paris Friday 21 May reporting that according to the newspaper Moniteur the ships of the line Bretagne, Arcole, Prince Jerôme, Ulm, Donauwerth and Isly left Toulon on 17 May for exercises in the Mediterranean.

The newspaper Nieuw Amsterdamsch handels- en effectenblad dated 4 June reported that according to private tidings from Ragusa left the two French ships of the line Gravosa on 29 May towards the South.

The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 6 June published an item dated Paris 4 June reporting that in Constantinople all kind of contradictable rumours were dealing with the situation in Montenegro and that the French rear admiral Jurrien de la Gravière was ordered to prevent a new landing of Turkish troops at Kleck. This last rumour was directly denied and perhaps one of the reasons that the French ships of the line left Gravossa with unknown destination and for an unknown period.

The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 7 June 1858 published an item dated Rotterdam 6 June reporting that according to tidings received at Trieste on the 5th coming from Cattaro two French ships of the line arrrived off Budua and that the French admiral and consul-general returned the 3rd at Cettinje. The newspaper Nieuw Amsterdamsch handels- en effectenblad dated 8 June confirmed this item adding that the British steamboat Coquette departed towards open sea.

The newspaper De Noord-Brabanter dated 8 June reported that according to the tidings received at Trieste a day earlier from Cattaro arrived two French ships of the line off Budna. The French admiral and the consul general who left earlier Cettinje returned there the 3rd.