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Edited and
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Johnny E. Balsved

Data Sheet

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Classification

Type:

Frigate

Class:

n/a

Other Ships
in Class:

Frigate FREYA (1824-1853)
Frigate HAVFRUEN (1832-1864)
Frigate BELLONA (1835-1862)

Specifications

Built by:

Nyholm, Copenhagen

Design:

Yard Master A. Schifter

Laid down:

n/a

Launched:

July 31, 1822

Commissioned:

May 9, 1838

Decommissioned:

1863

Pennant Number:

n/a

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

705 ½ Læster

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

48.09 m

11.84 m

5.42 m

Complement:

404 men

Propulsion:

n/a

Range:

n/a

Armament:

28 ea 18-pound Guns
8 ea 8-pound Guns
10 ea 30-pound Guns
4 ea 12-pound Howitzer

Later:

46 ea 18-pound Guns

Speed:

n/a

Notes

The frigate was in 1838 sent to Livorno, Italy to pick up the Danish sculpturer Bertel Thorvaldsen and his artworks. The frigate returned to Copenhagen on September 17, 1838.

Sources:

&

Oplysninger vedrørende den danske flaades skibe i sidste aarhundrede, by etatsråd H. Degenkolv, Copenhagen, 1906.

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography