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Alert and Lasher appear in correspondence to Cochrane from Greek representatives in Britain dated April 1826. The correspondence was published by Andreas Lourrittes in Correspondence respecting the steam vessels which were intended to form the expedition to Greece (1827) and is cited by Dakin in Ma...

Thanks Andreas. Lets pause for a moment to take stock of the data. The three larger steamers built for the Greek revolutionaries were named Perseverance (later Karteria ), Enterprize (later Epicheirisis ) and Irresistable (was to have been renamed Akatamahitos but destroyed by fire). The first two w...

The boilers of these vessels were high pressure. This was Thomas Cochrane’s decision and was a mistake. As you say, Makis, the engines were novel and not reliable. Both Karteria and Epicheirisis suffered boiler explosions during their voyages to Greece. According to Douglas Dakin in Mariner’s Mirror...

There is some follow up reportage of the case, which would have aroused a lot of interest so soon after the Rainhill trials, on pp. 377-388 of the same volume and a description of the Cochrane-Galloway boiler on pp. 305-308.

The patent dispute was not in fact between Thomas Cochrane and his partner Alexander Galloway (English engineer, 1776-1847). Cochrane and Galloway together took action against John Ericsson (the famous Swedish engineer, 1803-1889, who later migrated to the U.S.A.) and John Braithwaite (English engin...

If you have access to Mariner's Mirror there is an account of the Greek revolutionaries' purchase of steamers by Douglas Dakin, ‘Lord Cochrane’s Greek Steam Fleet’, in vol. 39, no. 3 (August 1953), pp. 211-19.

Thanks Makis. I will pass on your advice.

Do you have some details of the capture of Cephalonia and Ithaca? I have a friend who will be very interested.

A note to my last post (see above December 07): Günes kıçlı appears to have been a standard small two-decker rather than one of the faster caravels. That would make Ottoman fleet strength in 1730 4 three-deckers, 23 two-deckers and 6 frigates (caravels), the same as in 1738.

Thanks Albert although I read French well enough use the French version too. I wanted to alert other forum members who might not. A couple of comments about the names in the French report of 1738 cited by Daniel Panzac (and in Andreas’s post above). Many of the names refer to the decoration of the s...