The Late Danish Fleet.

List of the Danish fleet, with the names of the English ships by which they were fitted for sea.

Danish.	Guns.	When built.	English.
Christian VIIth	96	1806	Pompee.
Neptune	84	1789	Minotaur.
Waldemar	84	1789	Prince of Wales.
Princess Sophia Fredevern	74	1775	Ganges.
Justice	74	1774	Cambrian.
Heir Apparent Frederick	74	1782	Brunswick.
Crown Prince Frederick	74	1784	Maida.
Fuen	74	1787	Mars.
Odin	74	1788	Hercule.
Three Crowns	74	1789	Ruby.
Skiold	74	1798	Valiant.
Crown Princess Maria	74	1791	Goliah.
Denmark	74	1794	Captain.
Norge	74	1800	Centaur.
Princess Caroline	74	1795	Agamemnon.
Severen	64	1795	Alfred.
Detmarksens	64	1780	Cut to pieces in dock.
Mars	64	1784	(Block ship) destroyed.

Frigates of 44 guns -- Pearl, 1804, by the Inflexible; Housewife, 1779, by the Nymphe; Freya, 1795, by the Astrea; Iris, 1793, by the Africaine; Rota, 1793, by the Rosamond; Venus, 1805, by the Leyden. -- Nyade, 36, 1807, by the Ariadne; Frederegstegn, 28, 1800, by the Surveillante; Little Belt, 24, 1801, by the Gannet; Fylla, 24, 1802, by the Charger; Sharpe, 18, 1791, by the Prometheus; Dolphin, 18, 1792, by the Desperate; Mercure, 18, 1806, by the Pompee; Alert, 18, by the Pandora.

The Triton, 28, 1790; Elbe, 20, 1800; Edegren, 20, 1802; Nid Elven, 18, 1792; Courier, 14, 1801; Flying Fish, 14, 1789; were also brought away, but we have not heard by what ships they were fitted.

The Alert and Dolphin were not included in the gazette. Fourteen gunboats, with one gun in the bow and one in the stern; and eight with two guns in the bow, were also brought away, fitted by the Franchaise; and three of the latter descriptions were destroyed.

Naval Chronical, Vol. 18 (1807), p 378.

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius

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