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Monday, 5 August 2019

The Greek and Turkish navies in the Levant according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 15 June 1821

Vienna, 3 June. The Turkish fleet was within short time complete fitted out and ready leave for open sea. She was still waiting from the necessary sailors coming from the provinces to complete the crews.

Trieste, 23 May. The Neapolitan brigantine Ster van Diana [Dutch translation of the original name] master Xavier van Caltich which left Smyrna 6 May arrived 21 May at Trieste with letters from the Archipelago. He reported that 2-54 gun frigates, 2 corvettes and 4 brigs which left Constantinople to transport the Turkish army at Salonika destined for Morea due to treason of the Greek sailors on board were captured by the Greeks. The Turkish on board numbering 900 men were first as prisoners of war transported to the island Milo but when the news arrived that the patriarch of Constantinople was murdered were all prisoners killed.