Naval history of Great Britain by William James

Summaries of Data Extracted from
Naval history of Great Britain
by
William James

A list of ships of the line and frigates, late belonging to the Danish navy captured, destroyed, wrecked, foundered, or accidentally burnt:

Date Lost	Guns		Name	How and where lost.
April 2, 1801	74		Zealand �	Captured by Admiral Parker's fleet off Copenhagen. The Zealand was afterwards destroyed.
April 2, 1801	64	(P)	Holstein �
September 7, 1807	80	K	Christian VII	Captured at the surrender of Copenhagen, by the combined military and naval forces under General Lord Cathcart and Admiral James Gambier.
		K	Waldemar
		�	Neptunos
	Not stated	M	Dannemark
		M	Norge
		N	Arve-Prints
			Justitia
			Kron-Prindts
			Kron-Princesse
			Odin
			Princesse-Sophia-Frederica
			Skiold
			Tre-Kronen
		O	Princesse-Carolina
	64		Fyren
	64	P	Syeren
		�	Dittsmarchen
	Gun.frig.
	38	Z	Perlen
	38	Z	Rota
	36	B	Freija
			Har-Fruen
			Iris
		C	Nijaden
		C	Nymphen
		D	Venus
August 10, 1807	32	H	Frederickscoarn	Captured by the British 22-gun ship Comus, off Marstrand, Cattegat.
March 22, 1808	74	-	Prindts-Christian-Frederic	Destroyed on the coast of Jutland, by the British 64s Nassau and Stately.
July 7, 1812	40	-	Nayaden	Destroyed along with four brigs, by the British 64 Dictator and three brigs in the creek of Lyngoe, coast of Norway.

� These are the only vessels of the 13 taken, sunk, and destroyed off Copenhagen, that can be considered as ships of war : the remainder were mere floating batteries.

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