HDMS Lolland (1810)
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| Name: | Lolland or Laaland |
| Namesake: | Lolland |
| Builder: | Pihl, Bodenhofs Plads (Copenhagen) |
| Launched: | 7 March 1810 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Norway 1814 |
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| Name: | Lolland |
| Acquired: | 1814 (by transfer) |
| Fate: | sold 1847 |
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| Type: | Brig |
| Displacement: | 231 1⁄4 tons |
| Length: | 98 ft 8 in (30.07 m) (Danish) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) (Danish) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)(forward) & 12' 4" (aft) - Danish |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 99 (later 120 men) |
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HDMS Lolland (or Laaland) was launched in March 1810. She served in at least four major engagements during the Gunboat War before she was transferred to the Norwegian navy after the Treaty of Kiel brought about the separation of Norway from Denmark in 1814. Lolland continued to serve with the Norwegian Navy until sold in 1847.
For three months from 9 June 1810, Lolland served as a training ship for naval cadets at Copenhagen naval base. At the time she was under the command of Senior Lieutenant (later Captain) Holger Johan Bahnsen. Also on board was Senior Lieutenant Georg Joachim Grodtschilling, a mathematics teacher at the naval academy.
On 6 March 1811, Lolland sailed to her new station as part of the naval defences of southern Norway, where she was the command ship for a division of brigs. The year would be a tumultuous one for Lolland as she would engage in three actions against British warships under her new captain, Hans Peter Holm.
By the 1 May 1811, Lolland had returned to the southern approaches to Egersund (SW Norway) with four other brigs, unknown to the British. The British sent four boats from HMS Belette, HMS Cherokee and HMS Clio, into the western end of the sound, expecting to capture some shipping or do other mischief. The circumstances of locality and wind did not permit the Danish brigs to enter the sound from the further end, but Holm sent the Danish ships’ boats under Lieutenant Niels Gerhardt Langemach to oppose the British. Some of the Danes landed to set an ambush from the cliff tops, whilst the armed boats were hidden behind a skerry. As the British rowed boldly in, they met unexpected fire from howitzers and muskets; they immediately withdrew, with the Danish boats in pursuit. The Danes captured one of the British boats and her crew of an officer and 17 men, who had come from Belette, and would have captured more but for the confusion that the explosion of a powder keg on one of the Danish boats caused. This enabled the remaining British boats to reach the protection of their squadron.
On 31 July 1811, Lolland, in company with the brigs Lougen and Kiel, encountered HMS Brev Drageren and HMS Algerine cruising together in Long Sound, Norway. The Danes had 54 guns and 480 men, against the British 22 guns and 107 men. Outnumbered and outgunned, the British vessels took flight.
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