The Late Danish Fleet.

List of the Danish fleet, with the names of the English ships by which they were fitted for sea.
Danish. Guns. When built. English.
Christian VIIth 96 1806 Pompee.
Neptune 84 1789 Minotaur.
Waldemar 84 1789 Prince of Wales.
Princess Sophia Fredevern 74 1775 Ganges.
Justice 74 1774 Cambrian.
Heir Apparent Frederick 74 1782 Brunswick.
Crown Prince Frederick 74 1784 Maida.
Fuen 74 1787 Mars.
Odin 74 1788 Hercule.
Three Crowns 74 1789 Ruby.
Skiold 74 1798 Valiant.
Crown Princess Maria 74 1791 Goliah.
Denmark 74 1794 Captain.
Norge 74 1800 Centaur.
Princess Caroline 74 1795 Agamemnon.
Severen 64 1795 Alfred.
Detmarksens 64 1780 Cut to pieces in dock.
Mars 64 1784 (Block ship) destroyed.

Frigates of 44 guns -- Pearl, 1804, by the Inflexible; Housewife, 1779, by the Nymphe; Freya, 1795, by the Astrea; Iris, 1793, by the Africaine; Rota, 1793, by the Rosamond; Venus, 1805, by the Leyden. -- Nyade, 36, 1807, by the Ariadne; Frederegstegn, 28, 1800, by the Surveillante; Little Belt, 24, 1801, by the Gannet; Fylla, 24, 1802, by the Charger; Sharpe, 18, 1791, by the Prometheus; Dolphin, 18, 1792, by the Desperate; Mercure, 18, 1806, by the Pompee; Alert, 18, by the Pandora.

The Triton, 28, 1790; Elbe, 20, 1800; Edegren, 20, 1802; Nid Elven, 18, 1792; Courier, 14, 1801; Flying Fish, 14, 1789; were also brought away, but we have not heard by what ships they were fitted.

The Alert and Dolphin were not included in the gazette. Fourteen gunboats, with one gun in the bow and one in the stern; and eight with two guns in the bow, were also brought away, fitted by the Franchaise; and three of the latter descriptions were destroyed.


Naval Chronical, Vol. 18 (1807), p 378.

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius


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