London, 19 January. Letters coming from Madrid, Spain mentioned the arrival at Cadiz of the French frigate le Tarne with 240 soldiers, probably as replacements.(1)
Two pieces of oak of the ship of the line Bellerophon which transported Napoleon are recently send to sir Robert Seppings probably to make snuff-boxes to be given away to the European royalties as a present. The Bellerophon was fitted out as a pontoon.(1)
Frankfurt, 22 January. From Constantinople arrived tidings dated 27 December 1826 that the reorganisations and government rules continued. A large number of vagabonds and discontented people were send to the Asiatic coasts. The Capitan Pasha, which wasn’t more a favourite of the sultan according to rumours, received recently precious presents of the sultan. Except that the Greek forced the Capitan Pasha to leave the Archipelago and the losses of the Egyptian fleet caused by storms, rumours stated that admiral Sachturi while crossing with 7 ships off Rhodus, captured an Egyptian frigate destined towards this island. Probably it’s the same capture as earlier published by the new steamship.
Sources
J.J. Colledge and Ben Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. London, 2006.
J. Vichot. Repertoire des navires de guerre français. Paris, 1967.
Notes
1. Vichot called her Le Tarn, a corvette de charge, on stocks at Bayonne 1810, launched 1818 and last mentioned 1840.
2. The Bellerophon which was in service in 1827 was the former Talavera renamed 23 July 1817 and former Waterloo renamed 5 October 1824, since 1848 harbour service and sold in 1892. She was launched at the Portsmouth dockyard 16 October 1818, dimensions 192’x 50’, 2.056 tons builders’ measurement and armed with 80 guns. So this can’t be the ship referred to in this news item. Presumably it is the 74-gun Bellerophon, launched by Graves, Frindsbury, England 6 October 1786, since October 1815 prison ship and renamed Captivity 5 October 1824 and finally sold 21 January 1836. Dimensions 168’x 47’ and a builder’s measurement of 1.643 tons.
Two pieces of oak of the ship of the line Bellerophon which transported Napoleon are recently send to sir Robert Seppings probably to make snuff-boxes to be given away to the European royalties as a present. The Bellerophon was fitted out as a pontoon.(1)
Frankfurt, 22 January. From Constantinople arrived tidings dated 27 December 1826 that the reorganisations and government rules continued. A large number of vagabonds and discontented people were send to the Asiatic coasts. The Capitan Pasha, which wasn’t more a favourite of the sultan according to rumours, received recently precious presents of the sultan. Except that the Greek forced the Capitan Pasha to leave the Archipelago and the losses of the Egyptian fleet caused by storms, rumours stated that admiral Sachturi while crossing with 7 ships off Rhodus, captured an Egyptian frigate destined towards this island. Probably it’s the same capture as earlier published by the new steamship.
Sources
J.J. Colledge and Ben Warlow. Ships of the Royal Navy. London, 2006.
J. Vichot. Repertoire des navires de guerre français. Paris, 1967.
Notes
1. Vichot called her Le Tarn, a corvette de charge, on stocks at Bayonne 1810, launched 1818 and last mentioned 1840.
2. The Bellerophon which was in service in 1827 was the former Talavera renamed 23 July 1817 and former Waterloo renamed 5 October 1824, since 1848 harbour service and sold in 1892. She was launched at the Portsmouth dockyard 16 October 1818, dimensions 192’x 50’, 2.056 tons builders’ measurement and armed with 80 guns. So this can’t be the ship referred to in this news item. Presumably it is the 74-gun Bellerophon, launched by Graves, Frindsbury, England 6 October 1786, since October 1815 prison ship and renamed Captivity 5 October 1824 and finally sold 21 January 1836. Dimensions 168’x 47’ and a builder’s measurement of 1.643 tons.
