1808	Anglo-Swedish and Russian Fleets	12

report of the minister of marine, consisted, on the 9th of November, 1807, of 20 new ships of the line carrying 1588 guns, and 14 frigates and corvettes carrying 426 guns, besides brigs and smaller vessels. Among the lire-of-battle ships were three or four three-deckers, and nearly the whole of the others were 74-gun ships. Several of the frigates, also, mounted 50 guns.

The Swedish fleet consisted of 11 or 12 sail of the line and six or seven frigates; not more than half the former in an effective state. The following account of the recommended, if not of the actual, gun-force of Swedish ships of war, is extracted from the work of the celebrated naval architect Chapman: Ships of the line.

Towards the middle or latter end of May the British naval force assembled in the Sound, Great Belt, and Baltic, and which was under the command of Vice-admiral Sir James Saumarez, consisted of the

* For the English caliber of the Swedish pounder caliber of the Swedish see vol. i., p. 41

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