HNoMS Axel Thorsen (1810)
Axel Thorsen (1810/1814–1863) was a Norske Kanonskonnert built in Trondheim, and launched on 28 April 1810. She was one of ten such ships built in either Bergen or Trondheim for the Danish-Norwegian navy before the end of the Napoleonic Wars (and English Wars) when Norway became independent of Denmark at the Treaty of Kiel in 1814.
![]() Plan of the schooners Axel Thorsen and Skiøn Valborg | |
Class overview | |
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Name: | Norwegian gun-ships (Norske Kanonskonnert) |
Operators: |
Dano- Norwegian Navy ![]() |
In commission: | 1808–1814 |
Completed: | 10 |
Lost: | 2 |
Retired: | 8 (transferred) |
Class overview | |
Name: | Norwegian gun-ship (Norske Kanonskonnert) |
Operators: |
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In commission: | 1814–1872 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Schooner |
Displacement: | 70 tons approx. |
Length: | 18.3 meters |
Beam: | 5.2 meters |
Depth of hold: | 1.8 meters |
Complement: | 45–50 |
Armament: | 2 × 24-pounder guns + 2 × 12-pounder carronades + 4 or 6 × 4-pounder howitzers |
Origin of Name
Axel Thorsen is a character in very old Danish folk tales and poetry[1]
Danish Service
Axel Thorsen, along with her sister gunships Nornen and Valkyrien joined Müller's Finmark Squadron in 1810[2]
Norwegian Service
Axel Thorsen was used in fisheries protection until 1839, and commercially thereafter[3].
In 1864 this ship took part in the Swedish expedition to Spitzbergen led by Baron Nordenskiöld[3].
Fate
She was lost at sea in the Arctic Ocean in 1872.[3]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
- Oehlenschläger
- Fra Krigens Tid - Muller
- Modelships website
References
- Fra Krigens Tid (1807 -1814) (From the wartime) edited by N A Larson, Christiana (Oslo) 1878. (Title page and Chapter headings)
- Oehlenschläger: Gamle danske Folkeviser, Kiøbenhavn 1840 Berlingske Bogtrukkeri (on Google Books)