Plan of the schooners Axel Thorsen and Skiøn Valborg
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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 | |
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 |
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.
Axel Thorsen is a character in very old Danish folk tales and poetry[1]
Axel Thorsen, along with her sister gunships Nornen and Valkyrien joined Müller's Finmark Squadron in 1810[2]
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]
She was lost in the Arctic Ocean off Novaya Zemlya in August 1872.[4]
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