Austrian floating battery stationed at Malamocco according to the Dutch newspaper Utrechtse provinciale en stadscourant dated 2 January 1861

An item dated Turin 29 December 1860 reported that off Malamocco a floating battery was stationed to defend the passage. With as dimensions 51 x 18 metres consisted her armament of 32-80pd guns and numbered her crew 300 men. On short notice were to defend the entrance of the harbour of Venice two similar vessels available.(1)

Note
1. Venice was than still Austrian territory and was not earlier as in October 1866 part of the Kingdom of Italy.