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.
242: “The data on which to estimate the Venetian, or the Austrian, naval force
in the Adriatic in '48-49, are by no means abundant, or reliable. As for the
naval force of Venice - some months later [>22 March 1848], when it was
yielded to the Austrians, after having been somewhat augmented, it consisted of
4 corvettes of 20 and 24 guns; 5 brigantines of 10 and 10 guns; a goletta of 30
guns; a steamer of 120 horse-power. - the Pio Nono - which had been
strengthened to carry an 60-pound Paixhan and a 24-pounder; 4 steam tow-boats,
and 10 trabaccoli carrying each one heavy cannon - making, in all, 25 vessels,
mounting 179 guns, for defence
p.
243: of the port. There were, also, 148 gun-boats, barges, &., heavily
armed, for defence of the Lagune, and a frigate, 8 golettas, 3 steamers, and 1
large gun-boat - 8 in
all, mounting some 60 guns in course of construction at the Arsenal.”
Source
Edmund
Flagg. Venice, the city of the sea, from the invasion by Napoleon in 1797 to
the capitulation to Radeztky in 1849, with a contemporaneous view of the
peninsula. New York, 1853.
