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. 462. “The navy of the kingdom was entirely re-organised in 1866-67, being divided into two distinct parts, the first to serve as an ordinary fleet of war, for aggressive as well as defensive purposes; and the second stationary, and solely devoted to coast defence. A number of small gunboats and floating batteries, built or building, together with some old sailing men-of-war, converted into swimming fortresses, formed the stationary fleet at the commencement of 1868. The fleet of war proper consisted, in January 1868, of the following vessels: screw frigate, of 400 horse-power, 22 guns, 3 corvettes, one of 400, and two of 200 horse-power, 26 guns, 4 iron-clad monitors, 8 guns, 10 gunboats, 20 guns, 18 men-of-war, with an aggregate of 76 guns. The whole of the iron-clads were built after the American model, one, a turret ship, called the “John Ericsson,” partly covered with steel armour. The navy of Sweden was manned, in 1868, by 34,578 sailors and marines, of whom, however, more than two-thirds were on furlough, or attached to the fleet of reserve.”
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.
