An item referred to the Soldaten Freund which reported that on 1 May 1849 the Austrian navy consisted of 3 frigates, 2 corvettes, 5 brigs, 2 schooners, 2 war steamships, 2 gunboats, 7 trabakels, 1 aragozzo, 2 gun barges and 27 peniches excluded the vessels captured from the Venetians. The minister of navy decided that the fleet was to be transferred from Pola, Italy towards Trieste, Italy. Orders were no longer to be given in the Italian language but in standard German.
