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. In this
specific magazine was an article titled “The National Defence Madness”
published in which the British navy was compared with several other navies and
the results were presented in the British Parliament.
P.
361: “The Turkish navy consists of 2 ships of the line of 120; 2 of 100; 3 of
90; 1 of 84; 1 of 80; one frigate of 56; 1 of 44; 3 or 4 sloops, and 4, or 5
steamers.”
Source
William
Tait. “The National Defence Madness: in: Tait’s Edingburgh magazine,
January-December 1852.
