HMS Norge (1807)

HDMS Norge was a Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy ship-of-the-line, built to a design by F. C. H. Hohlenberg. The British Royal Navy seized her in 1807, together with the rest of the Danish fleet after the second battle of Copenhagen. She served off Spain, in the mediterranean, and in the North Sea.

HMS Norge off Pendennis Castle
History
Denmark & Norway
Name	Norge
Builder	Nyholm, Copenhagen
Laid down	13 April 1796[1]
Launched	29 September 1800[1]
Commissioned	1800
Out of service	1807
Fate	Taken by the British at second Battle of Copenhagen (1807)
General characteristics
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
United Kingdom
Name	Norge
Acquired	By capture by the British at second Battle of Copenhagen (1807)
Fate	Broken up 1817
General characteristics (British service)[1]
Tons burthen	196039⁄94 (bm)
Length	Overall: 183 ft 1+1⁄2 in (55.8 m) Keel: 124 ft 2+1⁄2 in (37.9 m)
Depth of hold	20 ft 5 in (6.2 m)
Complement	640
Armament	Lower deck: 28 × 32-pounder guns Upper deck: 32 × 18-pounder guns QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

In British Service

She was fitted out at Portsmouth from 21 November 1807 to 11 December 1808.

Napoleonic Wars

She was commissioned in April 1808 under Captain Edmund Boger. She was at Corunna in January 1809. It had been intended to rename her as Nonsuch in 1809 but the order was rescinded. From 1810 she was commanded by Captain John Sprat Rainier and was in the vicinity of Cadiz. In 1811 she was under the command of Temporary Captain William Waller, deployed in the Mediterranean. From 1812 to 1814, she was under the command of Captain Samuel Jackson, and sailed the North Sea.^[1]

War of 1812

In August 1814, she was under the command of Captain Charles Dashwood. In September 1814, she set sail for North America, in convoy with transport ships carrying Major General John Keane and reinforcements to North America.^[2] Embarked aboard the Norge were Major Munro's company of the Royal Artillery and Lieutenant Hill.^[3] The crew of the Norge participated in the Battle of Lake Borgne where her quartermaster was killed. The British lost 17 men killed and 77 wounded. Anaconda then evacuated the wounded.^[4][5][6] In 1821 the survivors of the flotilla shared in the distribution of head-money arising from the capture of the American gun-boats and sundry bales of cotton.^[7][a][b] In 1847 the Admiralty issued a clasp (or bar) marked "14 Dec. Boat Service 1814" to survivors of the boat service who claimed the clasp to the Naval General Service Medal.^{[c] [9]}

Fate

She was paid off in August 1815. In March 1816 she was sold for £3000 at Chatham.^[1]

Notes

1. A first-class share of the prize money was worth £34 12s 9+1⁄4d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 7s 10+3⁄4d.^[8]
2. 'Notice is hereby given to the officers and companies of His Majesty's ships Aetna, Alceste, Anaconda, Armide, Asia, Bedford, Belle Poule, Borer, Bucephalus, Calliope, Carron, Cydnus, Dictator, Diomede, Dover, Fox, Gorgon, Herald, Hydra, Meteor, Norge, Nymphe, Pygmy, Ramillies, Royal Oak, Seahorse, Shelburne, Sophie, Thames, Thistle, Tonnant, Trave, Volcano, and Weser, that they will be paid their respective proportions of prize money.'
3. The 'Names of Ships for which Claims have been proved' are as follows: warships Tonnant, Norge, Royal Oak, Ramillies, Bedford, Armide, Cydnus, Trave, Seahorse, Sophie, Meteor; troopships Gorgon, Diomede, Alceste, Belle Poule