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P. 245: “The Norwegian navy consists at present of one frigate, two sloops of war, two brigs, three schooners, 140 gunboats; of which the double gunboats, as they are called, are armed with two sixty-four pounders, and have a crew of sixty-five men ; the smaller boats are p. 246: armed with one sixty-four gun and thirty-five men. There are seventy-seven officers belonging to the royal navy, consisting of one admiral, whose pay is 1992 spec. doll.; one commodore, 1644 spec.; three commodore captains, 1140 spec, each: twelve captains, 792 spec.; twelve captain-lieutenants, 504 spec.; twenty-four premier lieutenants, 312 spec; and twenty-four second lieutenants, 216 spec. Besides their yearly pay the officers, when on service, have allowances for victuals, and other emoluments. The seamen's wages on board a man of war are from ten to twenty skillings per month. Only a small number are kept in constant pay, and employed in the navy yards and such vessels as are in commission. When seamen are wanted for the royal navy, every sailor, mate, and master in the mercantile service, is liable to serve, and the number required are taken in turn by ballot from the lists, on which about 20,000 men are registered. But no man is compelled to serve in a lower rank than he has previously held on board a merchant vessel, so that a mate is only liable to a mate's duty, and a master takes that of a Lieutenant. Besides the vessels enumerated, there are a few steamers which are employed in the packet service. They are fine boats, and the commanders of those in which we made our passages between Christiania and Travemunde, were intelligent and gentlemanly men, and spoke English, as I believe most of the officers in the sea-service of Norway do”.
Source
Thomas Forester. Norway in 1848 and 1849:containing rambles among the fjelds and fjords of the central and western districts. London, 1850.
P. 245: “The Norwegian navy consists at present of one frigate, two sloops of war, two brigs, three schooners, 140 gunboats; of which the double gunboats, as they are called, are armed with two sixty-four pounders, and have a crew of sixty-five men ; the smaller boats are p. 246: armed with one sixty-four gun and thirty-five men. There are seventy-seven officers belonging to the royal navy, consisting of one admiral, whose pay is 1992 spec. doll.; one commodore, 1644 spec.; three commodore captains, 1140 spec, each: twelve captains, 792 spec.; twelve captain-lieutenants, 504 spec.; twenty-four premier lieutenants, 312 spec; and twenty-four second lieutenants, 216 spec. Besides their yearly pay the officers, when on service, have allowances for victuals, and other emoluments. The seamen's wages on board a man of war are from ten to twenty skillings per month. Only a small number are kept in constant pay, and employed in the navy yards and such vessels as are in commission. When seamen are wanted for the royal navy, every sailor, mate, and master in the mercantile service, is liable to serve, and the number required are taken in turn by ballot from the lists, on which about 20,000 men are registered. But no man is compelled to serve in a lower rank than he has previously held on board a merchant vessel, so that a mate is only liable to a mate's duty, and a master takes that of a Lieutenant. Besides the vessels enumerated, there are a few steamers which are employed in the packet service. They are fine boats, and the commanders of those in which we made our passages between Christiania and Travemunde, were intelligent and gentlemanly men, and spoke English, as I believe most of the officers in the sea-service of Norway do”.
Source
Thomas Forester. Norway in 1848 and 1849:containing rambles among the fjelds and fjords of the central and western districts. London, 1850.
