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Sunday 18 July 2021

The Swedish navy in the Mediterranean according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 11 May 1826

Christiana, 22 April. According to the reports of the Swedish consuls attached at courts of the Barbary States was it to be expected that united flag of Sweden and Norway would be respected by these States and the Greek and Colombian privateers and so the king ordered the 21st that the brig Frederichswarn neednt to depart to the Levant. She was to be disarmed and unrigged. On the other hand was the [Norwegian] corvette Alsen to cruise for 3 months in the coming summer. She served as a training ship for sailors and midshipmen.