According to an item dated Hamburg, Germany 15 March arrived Mr. Gordon a Scottish nobleman and director general of the shipbuilding at Riga at St. Petersburg being ordered by the Russian empress to do so. He spoke after his arrival in the presence of the queen several times with the key officials of the department of marine. The topic of these discussions was a project to improve and increase the Russian navy. They decided to built at Revel and Riga some warships using the models and designs prescribed by Gordon and mainly approved by them. As soon as possible was the building to be started of 2 large ships of 100 guns, 3 of 80 guns and 6 of 60 guns. Gordon was decorated as knight in the order of St. Alexander Newsky and further more with 1,000 farmers in Livonia and 30,000 rubles.
