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This list provided here is of British warship losses in Danish-Norwegian waters during Denmark's "gunboat war" of 1807-1814, so-called because Denmark's predominate weapon in this predominately naval war was what was generically referred to as the "gunboat," but which more accurately involved several different specific types of mass-produced small craft, such as the "gun-sloop" or "or "gun-shallop" (kanonchalup), and the smaller "gun-yawl" or "cannon-jolly" (kanonjolle)."
Denmark's Gunboat War =
"coastal warfare"
Denmark's "gunboat war" was the Napoleonic Wars'
version of a type of naval operations which are now referred
to as "coastal warfare," primarily involving smaller
types of naval vessels - typically, convoy escorts or small
attack craft. The warship types found in this list of British
warship losses reflects this "coastal" character
of Denmark's "gunboat war." Basically, Denmark did
not employ any warship larger than a brig in these naval operations
and, basically, England did not lose anything larger than
a brig in actual combat with Danish naval forces.
Smaller British warships were employed
in England's Baltic naval operations
The list provided here of British warship losses illustrates
that England employed both regular men-of-war in the Baltic
theater of operations, as well as naval auxiliaries which
sometimes had a more ambivalent status, e.g., as "unregistered
vessels," or ships which were acquired and manned by
Royal Navy personnel but which may not have enjoyed official
status in British Admiralty records as a ship officially belonging
to England's Royal Navy.
Danish gunboats potentially threatened
Britain's largest warships
The predominately small-vessel character of Denmark's "gunboat
war" did not mean that larger English warships were never
placed in combat peril by Denmark's gunboats.
The mortal danger an enemy ship faced in Danish-Norwegian waters was to become becalmed when within striking reach of marauding Danish gunboats, i.e., a becalmed ship was a potentially doomed ship. Most famously, the English battleship AFRICA (64), sailing independently and thus without support, nearly fell victim to a coordinated Danish gunboat attack by a score of Danish gunboats when the AFRICA became becalmed.
Though the wind ultimately freshened, enabling AFRICA to escape, the AFRICA suffered severely from artillery fire from the Danish gunboats during several hours of Danish cannonading.
When an enemy ship was becalmed, Danish gunboats - employing sweeps to maneuver - were able to assume firing positions at an angle from which their stationary adversaries could not reply, the very tactic the Danes employed against the AFRICA.
Danish gunboats threatened British
merchantmen more than British warships
The list of English warship losses provided here is not long,
reflecting the fact that the focus of Danish naval operations
was in attacking English commerce with the Baltic states,
rather than in seeking to contest English naval power, and
that Danish gunboats were probably more inclined to attack
merchantmen than warships. However, the Danes were not lacking
in offensive spirit. If an English warship was the only target
available on a given day, well, then, the Danes attacked.
Variations in British warships'
armaments from their official armament establishments
Regarding the details concerning the armament of the British
warships in the attached list, it should be noted that at
the time of their capture, the actual armament of most of
the British warships captured by the Danes often differed
from these ships' designed establishment of guns in the Royal
Navy. This discrepancy was due to the fact that ships' captains
in the Royal Navy were allowed considerable discretion in
how to arm their "commands." The following list
therefore attempts to present the actual armament employed
on the individual British warships at the time of their capture
by the Danes.
After their capture by Denmark,
British warships were employed "as is" with original
British armaments
The actual armament, at the time of their capture by the Danes,
is significant for another reason, aside from indicating the
force of an individual British warship at the time of the
combat that resulted in her capture: the captured British
warships were probably taken into the Danish navy "as
is," complete with their original British armament, including
associated ammunition and gunner's stores, so that their original
British armament presumably also constituted these ships'
armament while they were employed in the Danish navy, at least
during the war years.
Critical wartime shortage in Danish
cannon supply
As the following list indicates, of the British warships captured
by the Danes during the gunboat war, 9 were naval brigs and
1 was a naval cutter - these were all taken into the Danish
navy under their original British names. Denmark would have
been hard pressed to equip these ships with standard Danish
naval cannon, which were in extremely short supply.
Denmark's critical wartime cannon shortage was due to the facts that (1) Britain had confiscated a significant portion of Denmark's stockpile of cannon when the British occupied the Danish naval arsenal at Nyholm in 1807; (2) what remained of Denmark's pre-war stock of naval cannon was needed to either outfit Denmark's new warships, including the mass-produced gunboats, or to arm naval coastal batteries all along Denmark's coast; and (3) Denmark was effectively cut off from Norway's iron mines and Norway's cannon manufacturers - Denmark's principal pre-war source of its naval cannon supply - by the British blockade.
Different gun calibers between British
and Danish cannon - Lack of interchangeability in Danish and
British ammunition
Regarding Denmark's employment of captured British naval cannon,
there was a lack of standardization between British and Danish
cannon, due to significant differences between the Danish
and British systems of weights and measures, creating a lack
of interchangeability between two nations' weapon calibers.
Therefore, it's presumed that the captured British warships
had to make due with their existing, original British armament,
while employed in Danish naval service, at least during the
war years.
Nature of the Entries Regarding
Individual British Warships
The briefest of the entries regarding individual warships
in the following list pertain to ships lost due to non-combat
causes, as being wrecked through grounding - except in the
case of the British battleships ST. GEORGE and DEFENSE. In
the case of naval auxiliaries which were "unregistered
ships," the documentary evidence is sparse, in turn limiting
the extent of the entry. The greatest detail is provided in
regard to those warships which were combat losses - here,
illuminating detail is provided which reveals the character
of the particular ship or the nature of the "gunboat
war."
List of British Warship Losses in Danish Waters
| Name: | CHARLES |
| Date of loss: | August 31, 1807 |
| Cause of loss: | Blown up in action by Danish artillery fire, by a shot fired from Trekroner Fort in Copenhagen harbor, while being engaged by Danish naval and ground forces, north of Copenhagen harbor, during the British amphibious invasion of Denmark - the prelude to the British capture of Copenhagen and the confiscation of the Danish fleet at the main Danish naval base at Nyholm, in Copenhagen. |
| Warship type: | Armed storeship |
| Class: | |
| Built: | |
| Tons burthen: | |
| Armament: | |
| Notes: | May have been an "unregistered ship," i.e., not officially listed in British Admiralty records as a Royal Navy ship. |
| Name: | TICKLER (14) |
| Date of loss: | June 4, 1808 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class. | ARCHER class (58 ships) |
| Built: | 1804 |
| Tons burthen: | 177 |
| Armament: | 2-12 pdr. bow guns, 12-18 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | Shelled into submission by cannon fire from Danish gunboats while becalmed in the Great Belt, suffering 37 killed and wounded. Taken into Danish naval service under the same name. Sold out of service, 1815. TICKLER, though new when captured, was a relatively light and ineffectually armed warship intended primarily for escort work. The ARCHER class comprised relatively inexpensive ships mass produced to meet expanded wartime demands - much as the Danes mass-produced gunboats for the same reason. Six brigs of the ARCHER class were captured by the Danes during the war. |
| Name: | TURBULENT (16) |
| Date of loss: | June 9, 1808 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Sloop/Brig |
| Class: | CONFOUNDER class (39 ships) |
| Built: | 1805 |
| Tons burthen: | 179 |
| Armament: | 2 - 9 pdr. cannon, 2 - 8 pdr. cannon, 12 - 18 pdr. carronades. [her official armament was apparently changed by deleting 2 - 18 pdr. carronades and substituting the 4 cannon] |
| Notes: | TURBULENT was boarded and taken by crews from a large force of Danish gunboats off the Danish island of Saltholm, lying between Copenhagen and Malmo Bay, after being cut off from a convoy together with 12 of the convoy's merchantmen. TURBULENT and the merchantmen were becalmed when captured. Taken into the Danish navy under the same name. Sold out of service in 1814. |
| Name: | SEAGULL (16) |
| Date of loss: | June 19, 1808 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | SEAGULL class - name ship of class (13 ships) |
| Built: | 1805 |
| Tons burthen: | 382 |
| Armament: | 2-6 pdr. bow guns, 14-24 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | Captured after being initially engaged for an hour, off of Christiansand, by the Danish brig LOUGEN, subsequently joined by 4 Danish gunboats when the action continued for another hour. SEAGULL lost 8 killed and 20 wounded, whereas the LOUGEN suffered only one killed. Having sustained serious combat damage, the SEAGULL was taken inshore where she sank. Subsequently refloated, SEAGULL was taken into the Danish navy under the same name. After the partition of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway, the SEAGULL formed part of the new Norwegian navy. SEAGULL was the largest warship captured by the Danes during the 1807-1814 war. See also the article: Lt. Wulff and the brig Lougen in action in Norwegian waters 1808 |
| Name: | TIGRESS (14) |
| Date of loss: | August 2, 1808 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | ARCHER class |
| Built: | 1804 |
| Tons burthen: | 177 |
| Armament: | 4 - 8
pdr. cannon, 10 - 18 pdr. carronades (TIGRESS seems to have carried 2 more guns when captured than her official complement of guns). |
| Notes: | Captured, after a short action in which she lost eight men, by a force of 16 Danish gunboats near Agerso in the Great Belt, and carried as prize into the Danish port of Nakskov. Taken into the Danish navy under the same name. Sold out of service in 1815. Six brigs of the ARCHER class were captured by the Danes during the war. |
| Name: | CRESCENT (36) |
| Date of loss: | December 6, 1808 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked on the coast of Jutland |
| Warship type: | Frigate (18 pdr.) |
| Class: | FLORA class (4 ships) |
| Built: | 1784 |
| Tons burthen: | 868 |
| Armament: | 26 - 18 pdr., 10 - 9 pdr., 12 swivels |
| Notes: | The wreck has recently been located and excavated. An elderly and outdated ship when lost, the CRESCENT was nearing the end of her military usefulness and service life. |
| Name: | FAMA (16) |
| Date of loss: | December 23, 1808 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked on the island of Bornholm during a snowstorm |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | BREVDRAGEREN class (3 ships) |
| Built: | 1802, at the Nyholm naval dockyard in Copenhagen |
| Tons burthen: | approximately 180 |
| Armament: | Official Danish armament: 8-4 pdr. bow cannon, 4-12 pdr. carronades. She is likely to have carried her original Danish armament when lost. |
| Notes: | Danish brig captured (together with the Danish royal yacht SØE-ORMEN) at Nyborg by the boats of the 74-gun British ship-of-the-line EDGAR on August 9, 1808 and taken into British naval service immediately after her capture. FAMA is one of two sister-ships of the BREVDRAGEREN class employed by the British navy, although after her capture the FAMA was not officially taken into the Royal Navy, but was employed on station, near the place of her capture, as an "unregistered vessel." FAMA's sister ship, the BREVDRAGEREN - the name ship of her class - was seized by the British at the Danish naval dockyard at Nyholm, in Copenhagen, when the British captured the Danish capital in 1807, and was surveyed by British Admiralty surveyors in a British dockyard upon her arrival in England. FAMA, conversely, appears to have remained on station in the Baltic after her capture and never returned to England to be either refitted in a British naval dockyard to Royal Navy standards, or officially surveyed by British admiralty surveyors; hence, the particulars which local British officers recorded of the FAMA after her capture are significantly in error - as is also the case of the SØE-ORMEN which was captured with her. |
| Name: | MAGNET (18) |
| Date of loss: | January 1, 1809 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked in heavy weather, while acting as a convoy escort |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | CRUIZER class (101 ships) |
| Built: | 1807 |
| Tons burthen: | 182 |
| Armament: | 2 - 6 pdr. bow cannon; 16 - 32 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | The CRUIZER class was the most numerous class of warships built by the British during the Napoleonic wars, and was a famous class of warships which was notable in other respects. |
| Name: | CLAUDIA (10) |
| Date of loss: | January 20, 1809 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked off Norway |
| Warship type: | Cutter/schooner |
| Class: | ADONIS class |
| Built: | 1806, in Bermuda |
| Tons burthen: | 142 |
| Armament: | 10-18 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: |
| Name: | PROSELYTE (4) |
| Date of loss: | January, 1809 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked, on Anholt Reef, while caught in the ice |
| Warship type: | bomb vessel |
| Class: | |
| Built: | |
| Tons burthen: | 404 |
| Armament: | |
| Notes: | An "unregistered vessel," i.e., not officially listed in official British Admiralty sources as being a Royal Navy ship. Probably a mercantile vessel which found wartime employment on an unofficial, ad hoc basis on the local Baltic station. |
| Name: | ALERT (18) |
| Date of loss: | August 10, 1809 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | Modified LOUGEN class (4 ships) |
| Built: | 1807, at the Nyholm naval dockyard in Copenhagen |
| Tons burthen: | 306 |
| Armament: | 2 - 6 pdr. bow cannon, 16 - 24 pdr. carronades (armament as fitted for British sea service). |
| Notes: | Captured near Frederiksvaern, after an hour's action, by eight Danish gunboats. Originally the Danish naval brig ALLART, designed by the Danish naval architect Stibolt, ALERT is one of six sister-ships seized by the British at the Danish naval base at Nyholm, Copenhagen, when the British captured the Danish capital in 1807, and all of these very desirable and useful vessels were placed in British naval service. ALERT was newly completed when seized by Britain. After the partition of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway in 1815, ALERT became part of the new Norwegian navy. ALERT was roughly comparable in size and force to the British SEAGULL or CRUIZER classes of naval brig. |
| Name: | MINX (13) |
| Date of loss: | September 2, 1809 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | ARCHER class |
| Built: | 1801 |
| Tons burthen: | 177 |
| Armament: | 2-18 pdr. cannon, 10-18 pdr. carronades, 1 - 4 pdr. howitzer |
| Notes: | While acting as a lightship off Skagen, MINX was engaged and captured after a nearly three hour action with eight Danish gunboats. Carried as prize to Aalborg, she was taken into the Danish navy under the same name. Though a relatively new ship, having been built in 1801, MINX was sold out of service in 1811, before the end of the war. Six British brigs of the ARCHER class were captured by the Danes during the war. |
| Name: | SALORMAN (10) |
| Date of loss: | December 22, 1809 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked near the Swedish port of Ystad |
| Warship type: | Cutter/schooner (in British naval service) |
| Class: | Danish HELLFLYNDEREN class (2 ships) |
| Built: | 1789, at the naval dockyard at Nyholm, in Copenhagen |
| Tons burthen: | |
| Armament: | 8 - 4
pdrs. (official Danish armament; she presumably carried
a different armament while in British service, probably
carronades) |
| Notes: | Purpose-built as the Danish royal yacht SØE-ORMEN, and designed by the Danish naval architect Stibolt, SØE-ORMEN was captured, together with the Danish naval brig FAMA, at Nyborg on August 8, 1808, by the boats of the 74-gun British ship-of-the-line EDGAR. Though designed as a royal yacht, due to the exigencies of war the Danes apparently pressed the SØE-ORMEN into employment as a light combat vessel - the lines of her hull indicate she was designed for speed, and was therefore suitable to conduct offensive operations against British convoys. Her official armament in Danish service, in her designed role as a royal yacht, was 8-4 pdr. cannon - a lightweight and totally ineffective armament, defensive in character, with which to conduct offensive mercantile warfare. It's not known how SØE-ORMEN was armed when captured. SALORMAN appears to be an Anglicization of this vessel's orginal Danish name, SOE-ORMEN. |
| Name: | GRINDER |
| Date of loss: | April 13, 1810 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Gunboat |
| Class: | |
| Built: | |
| Tons burthen: | |
| Armament: | |
| Notes: | Captured, near Anholt, by four Danish gunboats. GRINDER may have been an "unregistered vessel" with no official listing in the British Admiralty records. What types of vessels the Royal Navy labeled as a "gunboat" was often considerably different from that in the Danish navy, and they could be much larger ships than Danish gunboats. |
| Name: | ALBAN (12) |
| Date of loss: | September 12, 1810 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Cutter |
| Class: | ADONIS class |
| Built: | 1806, in Bermuda |
| Tons burthen: | 142 |
| Armament: | 2-12 pdr. carronades, 10-18 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | Taken in action off of Skagen; initially attacked by two Danish gun-sloops, the ALBAN ultimately struck her colors when the Danish gun-sloops originally engaged were subsequently joined, after three hours of combat, by four Danish gun-yawls. Brought into Aalborg after capture. Taken into the Danish navy under the same name, the ALBAN was subsequently retaken by the British naval brig RIFLEMAN, near the Shetland Islands, on May 11, 1811, after a twelve hour chase. |
| Name: | PANDORA (18) |
| Date of loss: | February 13, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked in the Kattegat |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | CRUZIER class |
| Built: | 1806 |
| Tons burthen: | 382 |
| Armament: | 2 - 6 pdr. bow cannon, 16 - 32 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | For comments on the CRUZIER class, see the notes to the MAGNET, in an previous entry above. |
| Name: | HERO |
| Date of loss: | April 23, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured and sunk by Danish gunboats |
| Warship type: | Cutter |
| Class: | |
| Built: | |
| Tons burthen: | 109 |
| Armament: | |
| Notes: | Little is known about this vessel, which was a mercantile ship temporarily hired into British naval service in 1809 for wartime employment; little information is available on ships hired into British naval service - the most desirable mercantile ships for potential warship employment were purchased outright by the Royal Navy. HERO was lost on the same date and at the same place ("Udevala"?) as was the SWAN. |
| Name: | SWAN (10) |
| Date of loss: | April 23, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by three Danish gunboats in "the Sleeve" and then sunk |
| Warship type: | Cutter |
| Class: | |
| Built: | |
| Tons burthen: | 119 |
| Armament: | 10-12 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | Not built as a warship. A mercantile vessel temporarily hired into British naval service for wartime employment, first from 1803-1805, and then again in 1807 when she served until captured and sunk by the Danes. SWAN was lost on the same date and at the same place ("Udevala"?) as was the HERO. |
| Name: | SAFEGUARD (13) |
| Date of loss: | June 29, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | ARCHER class |
| Built: | 1804 |
| Tons burthen: | 177 |
| Armament: | 2-6 pdr. cannon, 10-18 pdr. cannon, 1-10" mortar. |
| Notes: | Captured off the coast of Jutland after a three and a half hour action with four Danish gunboats. She struck at midnight. Taken into Danish naval service under the same name, she was sold out of service in 1813. Six British brigs of the ARCHER class were captured by the Danes during the war. The SAFEGUARD seems to have been one of the ARCHER class of naval brigs which were built as a "mortar brig," to carry a 10" mortar in addition to her regular armament - carrying this heavier armament may have adversely affected the SAFEGUARD's sailing qualities and therfore may have contributed to her capture, and may also have been a reason why SAFEGUARD was sold out of Danish naval service before the war ended. |
| Name: | MANLY (12) |
| Date of loss: | September 2, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | ARCHER class |
| Built: | 1804 |
| Tons burthen: | 177 |
| Armament: | 2 - 12 pdr. bow cannon, 10 - 18 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | Notes: Captured during an action with the Danish brigs LOLLAND, ALSEN, and SAMSØ off of Arendal, Norway. Taken into Danish naval service under the same name, MANLY was sold out of service in 1813. Six British brigs of the ARCHER class were captured by the Danes during the war. |
| Name: | SWAN (10) |
| Date of loss: | September, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by the Danes |
| Warship type: | Unknown, probably an ex-mercantile vessel hired into British naval service |
| Class: | |
| Built: | |
| Tons burthen: | |
| Armament: | |
| Notes: | The identity of this ship and details of this loss are unknown; her status as a Royal Navy vessel is doubtful. |
| Name: | FANCY (12) |
| Date of loss: | December 24, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Lost at sea |
| Warship type: | Cutter |
| Class: | |
| Built: | |
| Tons burthen: | 111 |
| Armament: | 10-12 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | A hired ship, originally mercantile, for employment for the duration of the war; little information is available on the hired ships in Royal Navy service. |
| Name: | ST. GEORGE (98) |
| Date of loss: | December 24, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked near Skagen, off the west coast of Jutland |
| Warship type: | Ship-of-the-line |
| Class: | DUKE class (4 ships) |
| Built: | 1785 |
| Tons burthen: | 1931 |
| Armament: | 28 - 32 pdr., 30 - 18 pdr., 30 - 12 pdr., 2 - 6 pdr. |
| Notes: | Wrecked together with DEFENSE during a violent storm. Only 6 men of her crew of 850 survived. The wreck site of this ship has been located and excavated in modern times; a modern museum - The St. George Shipwreck Museum, Strandingsmusem St. George - housing artifacts from this ship is located in Thorsminde, Denmark. |
| Name: | DEFENSE (74) |
| Date of loss: | December 24, 1811 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked near Skagen, off the west coast of Jutland |
| Warship type: | Ship-of-the-line |
| Class: | ARROGANT class (14 ships) |
| Built: | 1763 |
| Tons burthen: | 1604 |
| Armament: | 28 - 32 pdr., 28 - 18 pdr., 18 - 9 pdr. |
| Notes: | Wrecked during a heavy storm, together with the ST. GEORGE, above. The DEFENSE was a very elderly ship when wrecked. Much better and newer ship-of-the line hulls than that of the DEFENSE were available to the Royal Navy for employment, e.g., in the form of many Danish ships-of-the-line seized by the British at Copenhagen in 1807; however, there was absolutely no British naval dockyard capacity available to fit out the better Danish warship hulls for British sea service. Although the wreck site of the DEFENSE is believed to have been found, not much survives. |
| Name: | FLY (16) |
| Date of loss: | February 29, 1812 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked on the Danish island of Anholt |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | FLY class - name ship of class (7 ships) |
| Built: | 1805 |
| Tons burthen: | 281 |
| Armament: | 2-6 pdr. bow cannon, 14-24 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | FLY is one of the larger British naval brigs lost in Danish waters; she is comparable in size and force to, e.g, the SEAGULL, CRUZIER, and LOUGEN classes of brigs discussed elsewhere in this article. |
| Name: | EXERTION (12) |
| Date of loss: | July 8, 1812 |
| Cause of loss: | Went aground and was destroyed in the Elbe river |
| Warship type: | Sloop/Brig |
| Class: | CONFOUNDER class |
| Built: | 1806 |
| Tons burthen: | 179 |
| Armament: | 2 - 6 pdr. bow cannon, 10 - 18 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | The TURBULENT, a sister ship of EXERTION, was captured in action by the Danes on June 9, 1808 (see the previous entry on TURBULENT above). |
| Name: | ATTACK (13) |
| Date of loss: | August 19, 1812 |
| Cause of loss: | Captured by Danes |
| Warship type: | brig |
| Class: | ARCHER class |
| Built: | 1804 |
| Tons burthen: | 177 |
| Armament: | 2 - 6 pdr. bow cannon, 10 - 18 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | Captured after an interesting engagement with fourteen Danish gunboats which lasted over the course of two days. ATTACK lost 14 crewmen killed and wounded. ATTACK was taken into Danish naval service under the same name, but was sold out of service in 1813. Six British brigs of the ARCHER class were captured by the Danes during the war. |
| Name: | NIMBLE (10) |
| Date of loss: | November 6, 1812 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked in the Kattegat after striking a submerged rock |
| Warship type: | Cutter |
| Class: | NIMBLE class (2 ships) |
| Built: | 1811 |
| Tons burthen: | 140 |
| Armament: | 10 - 12 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | NIMBLE, named ship of a class of two ships |
| Name: | BELLETE (18) |
| Date of loss: | November 24, 1812 |
| Cause of loss: | Wrecked in the Kattegat |
| Warship type: | Brig |
| Class: | CRUZIER class |
| Built: | 1806 |
| Tons burthen: | 382 |
| Armament: | 2 - 6pdr. bow cannon, 16 - 32 pdr. carronades |
| Notes: | For comments on the CRUZIER class, see the previous entry re the MAGNET above |
