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Friday, 30 August 2019

Portuguese navy ordering guns in Sweden according to the Dutch newspaper Groninger Courant dated 23 December 1791

According to a tiding dated Stockholm, Sweden 6 December visited De Vello, general commissary of the Royal Portuguese navy recently the iron mines and contracted the three merchant houses Warendorff&Comp, Koferel&Comp and Schon&Komp to deliver within 18 months 6,000 pounds of iron guns, estimated around 500 pieces of different calibre.