^8o fortia’s travels in Sweden .
the flotilla is conftrufted of armed fliips, which are calculated to ferve, as circumftancesmay require, either as frigates or galleys.
The towns and certain farms in the maritime provinces are obliged to furnilh the Kingwith failors; fo that the navy is upon the fame footing as the provincial army: Thereare befides fome volunteer failors, who for a moderate fum engage themfelves on boardthe fleet, and who at intervals enter the merchant fervice.
The whole naval force confifts,
In failors furnilhed by the towns, to the number of —- 8400
The rotar, doubled — — ~ 8300
Recruits — — — — 700
Total 17,400
But according to Cantzler, when the rotar is not doubled, which only happens in timeof war, when the volunteers, the recruits, the failors from the towns, and the boys,who are rarely called upon, are not employed, there remains on fervice no morethan
For the towns —- — — 800
The rotar —- — — 6200
7000
The ftaff of the Swedifh navy confided, in 1773, of a grand admiral, two admirals,three vice-admirals, four rear-admirals, one rear-admiral, the prefident of the dock-yards; fix colonels, twenty-fix lieutenant-colonels, nineteen majors, fixty-two cap-tains, ninety-five lieutenants, one aid de camp-general, a warehoufe keeper, a captaincommandant of artillery, a roll-mafter, two captains of the dock-yards, five lieutenant-captains, a captain commandant of pilots and coafting pilots, and a lieutenant of pilots.In all two hundred and thirty-two officers.
Expences of the royal navy according to the ftatementof 1787.
Rix-dollars in fpecic.
For the board of admiralty
-
m-
16,058
16
the fleet and dock-yards
-
-
472^91
3°
9
the fquadron at Gottenburg
-
-
7>3 8 9
26
loan to the failors
-
-
l 4>597
58
6
the equipage of the Swedilh fleet and flotilla
36,841
*3
9
of the Finnilh flotilla
m
-
53»44 8
38
The commiflariat
m
m-
m
90,290 366,666 32
9
Q
Total in rix-dollars 667,194 2 o
To this if the expence of the army for the faid year be added, for the
particulars of which fee Table III. equal to - - 1,064,996 18 o
The total expenditure for the year 1787, for the army and navy col-leftively, will be » - - - 1,732,190 20 o
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