Thomsen - Fregatten Diana - 1809.png
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Summary
English: The light frigate (corvette) Diana. Dansk: Den lette fregat Diana.
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| Artist |
Thomsen (Probably Lieutenant Henrich Bendt Thomsen, 1790-1865). |
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| Title |
English: The light frigate (corvette) Diana. Dansk: Den lette fregat Diana. |
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| Description |
The Diana was built in Copenhagen in 1804 as a 20 gun light frigate (corvette). In 1807 she was ordered to the Danish West Indies to relieve the frigate Fylla. Her orders were to go to Algiers first to pay tribute, and returning from that in September of 1807 she was informed by a British frigate that the two countries were actually at war. Owing to damages on her bowsprit she went into the Spanish port of Carthagena, in what was now an allied country. And she stayed there. When Spain rebelled against Napoleon from 1808 onwards, the situation changed, and when Spain officially declared war on Denmark, the Diana was in enemy waters, and was taken over by Spain on September 26, 1809. Some of the crew made it home to Denmark, but many succumbed to illnesses. The Danish sources lost track of Diana when she headed for South America in November 1810. Spanish sources have her in Havana by 1818, still named Diana and rated as a corbeta (corvette) and she served with the Spanish Navy until 1832. |
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| Date | 1809 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | pen and watercolor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
3561 |
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| Inscriptions | Diana. Kongelig Dansk Fregat, førende 16 30 punds Caronader og 4 8 punds Kanoner, med 120 Mand prima Plan, commanderedes af S:T: Hr Capitain Meyer, kom fra Alger til Carthagena den 18 Sept: 1807 og blev taget i samme Havn den 26 Sept: 1809 af de spanske Insurgentere. Signed. Thomsen pinx 1809. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
Museet for Søfart, yearbook 1957. Details of Spanish service provided by Rif Winfield. |
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| Source/Photographer | forsvarsgalleriet.dk Registration required. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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