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.
p.
471. “The naval force of Norway consists of three steam-frigates, of 41 and 50
guns, eight steam corvettes, of 14 guns each, and 127 gunboats. In the session
of 1866, the ‘Storthing’ resolved to raise the navy to 156 vessels of war, with
500 guns, and 4,000 men, exclusive of the naval reserve. The navy is manned by
conscription. All sea-faring men and inhabitants of seaports, between the ages
of thirty and sixty, are enrolled on the lists of either the active fleet or
the naval militia. The numbers on the register amounted to above 60,000 men at
the end of 1867.”
Source
Frederick Martin and others. The Statesman’s
year-book. A statistical, mercantile, and historical account of the states and
sovereigns of the civilised world for the year 1869, vol. 6. London, 1869.
