Thanks
to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are able to read
books that are some times for decades no longer available for the public for
several reasons. That's quite a pity while these books contains useful
information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor accessible. In
this specific magazine was an article titled “The National Defence Madness”
published in which the British navy was compared with several other navies and
the results were presented in the British Parliament.
P.
361: “The Austrian navy consists of 4 frigates of from 40 to 50 guns 6
sloops of from 16 to 24 guns; 11 gun-brigs of 10 to 16 guns ; 4 goelettes from
5 to 12 guns; 2 steam-boats of 300 horse power each, 2 of 160, 2 of 12, 1 of
100, 1 of 8O horse power, and 2 smaller steamers. Besides which, there were on
the stocks in 1851, 1 frigate, 3 sloops, 3 brigs, 3 goelettes, and 5
steam-boats.”
Source
William
Tait. “The National Defence Madness: in: Tait’s Edingburgh magazine,
January-December 1852.
