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Sunday 10 November 2013

The British, Dutch, Egyptian and Greek navies according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 6 March 1827

Trieste, 20 February. With a vessel coming in 21 days from Alexandria arrived the tidings that the complete Egyptian fleet which departed from Morea and Suda arrived at Alexandria. Two brigs belonging to the fleet were now cruising off the harbour for Greek privateers. Carabusa was still in Greek possession and used as the home base for the ‘pirates’. A French vessel going van Candia towards Trieste was attacked by two Greek mistieks but managed after an exchange of some gunshots to escape.

London, 2 March. The British government hired the steamship Brockelbank and send it to Sheerness with a doctor of the Royal Navy to collect some sick men of the Dutch ship of the line Waterloo. The sick were brought to the Royal Navy hospital at Woolwich.