HMS Fridericksteen
1800 fifth-rate frigate
HDMS Friderichssteen or HMS Frederichsteen was a Danish Navy frigate, built in 1800, and captured by the Royal Navy in 1807 at the Battle of Copenhagen. She was taken into service as HMS Fredericksteen (or Frederickstein) and served in the Mediterranean until being finally broken up in 1813.
Royal Danish Navy
Friderichssteen was a 32-gun frigate built to a design by F.C.H. Hohlenberg and launched in 1800. She had a small hull, and consequently lacked the storage capacity for long-endurance cruises to distant stations. She was laid up in 1801 and not fitted out until 1802.
At the end of March 1801 a British fleet arrived at St Thomas, in the Danish West Indies. The Danes accepted the Articles of Capitulation the British proposed and the British occupied the islands without a shot being fired. The British occupation lasted until April 1802, when the British returned the islands to Denmark.
1802–1803
Captain Carl Adolph Roth (1767–1834), sailed Frederikssteen to the Danish West Indies. There he also took his place on the Ruling Commission for the Danish West Indies for matters relating to the naval service.
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