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HNoMS Axel Thorsen (1810)

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Plan of the schooners Axel Thorsen and Skiøn Valborg
Class overview
NameNorwegian gun-ships (Norske Kanonskonnert)
OperatorsDano- Norwegian Navy
In commission1808–1814
Completed10
Lost2
Retired8 (transferred)
Class overview
NameNorwegian gun-ship (Norske Kanonskonnert)
Operators
  • Norwegian Navy
  • 1815–1844:
  • 1844–1905:
In commission1814–1872
General characteristics
TypeSchooner
Displacement70 tons approx.
Length18.3 meters
Beam5.2 meters
Depth of hold1.8 meters
Complement45–50
Armament2 × 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.

Origin of Name

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Axel Thorsen is a character in very old Danish folk tales and poetry[1]

Danish Service

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Axel Thorsen, along with her sister gunships Nornen and Valkyrien joined Müller's Finmark Squadron in 1810[2]

Norwegian Service

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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

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She was lost in the Arctic Ocean off Novaya Zemlya in August 1872.[4]

Citations

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  1. ^ Oehlenschläger page 117
  2. ^ "Fra Krigens Tid - Muller". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  3. ^ a b [1] Modelships website
  4. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Glasgow Herald. No. 10176. Glasgow. 10 August 1872.

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