HDMS Langeland (1808)
History | |
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Denmark-Norway | |
Name | Langeland |
Namesake | Langeland |
Builder | Stibolt, Dorf-Gården, Kiel |
Launched | 2 November 1808 |
Commissioned | 1809 |
Fate | Transferred to Norway 1814 |
Norway | |
Name | Langeland |
Acquired | 1814 (by transfer) |
Fate | Sold 1827 into merchant service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Brig |
Displacement | 1691⁄2 tons |
Length | 93 ft 6 in (28.50 m) (Danish) |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) (Danish) |
Draught | 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)(forward) & 11' 3" (aft) - Danish |
Sail plan | Brig |
Complement | 100 |
Armament |
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The brig HDMS Langeland, launched in late 1808 and fitted out in 1809, was one of four brigs transferred to Norwegian ports from Denmark on 1 January 1810. From Norway she escorted Danish cargoes or harried enemy (British) merchant shipping. She took part in a successful cruise to the North Cape along with the brig Lougen in 1810 and was later taken into the fledgling Norwegian navy after the 1814 Treaty of Kiel. She was sold into merchant service in 1827.
Danish service
During the summer of 1809, three British gun brigs - the
Senior Lieutenant Thomas Joachim Lütken was captain of the Langeland from 1809 to 1814.I 1810 four brigs were transferred to Norwegian ports.[a]
In the spring of 1810 the two Danish-Norwegian brigs
Norwegian Service
The Treaty of Kiel in January 1814 separated Norway from Denmark, leaving Norway with a navy of seven brigs (one of which was laid up) and a number of smaller craft. A number of naval officers refused to accept service in the new Norwegian navy until released by the Danish king to whom they had sworn loyalty. Those who joined the Norwegian navy were eventually struck off the Danish lists.[3] Many others obeyed Danish orders and returned to Denmark.[4] Lütken, of the Langeland, was briefly arrested when he refused to hand over the ship to the newly constituted Norwegian State.
The Lolland, which was larger than the other brigs in the new Norwegian Navy, became the command ship of the Norwegian navy’s brig squadron, whose primary mission was to escort food convoys from Jutland, protecting them from Swedish depredations. However, after a short war, Norway and Sweden united, forming a union that lasted until 1905.
- Lolland (Captain Ole Christopher Budde);
- Seagull (Senior Lieutenant J. Lund);
- Allart (Senior Lieutenant S. Lous);
- Langeland (Junior Lieutenant Løvenskiold);
- Alsen (Junior Lieutenant Bendz); and
- Kiel (Junior Lieutenant Petersen).
Fate
In 1827, Langeland was decommissioned and sold into the merchant navy.
Notes
- ^ Fra Krigens Tid lists these as Samsøe, Captain Johannes Krieger; Alsen, Senior Lieutenant M. Lütken ;Kiel, Senior Lieutenant Otto F. Rasch, and Langeland, Senior Lieutenant T. Lütken.
- ^ In 1811 protection of the north fell to the lesser armed ships. The Norwegian navy maintained a presence until 1816, with an emphasis on improving charts and pilot instructions for these waters.
Citations
- ^ Aftenpost 29 May 1922, as repeated on website Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Translated from the Danish
- ^ Topsøe-Jensen, Vol. 2, pp.227-229.
- ^ Topsøe-Jensen officers biographies
- ^ "Norwegian Navy 1814". Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
References
- Individual record cards in Danish for ships of the Danish Royal Navy can sometimes be found on the internet link here, but not this ship! (April 2019). The Danish Naval Museum is building a new website at which details, drawings and models may be available. For individual ships already listed, which includes earlier ships of this name but does not yet include this Langeland, see here Archived 2012-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
- T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) “Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932“.