User:Viking1808/Falsen's Fladstrand Flotilla

Falsen’s Fladstrand Flotilla
The modern name for Fladstrand is Frederikshavn.
An unsuccessful hunt for more Grinder information.

CAVEAT - This is not so much an article in preparation, as notes which might prove useful later – to the author or other editors. The starting point is the book Søkrigen as listed (pages 260-268), following up any officers named who might have had contact with the captured ship Grinder, as renamed Prise Nr 5., through their entries in Topsøe-Jensen's book

(Søkrigen p261) 1 April 1810 - Lt Henne had plans for improvements to Grenå harbour defences and facilities approved – but not in time to prevent Skibsted’s debacle of 7 July.

(Søkrigen p261) 13 April 1810 - Grinder captured by Skibsted

(Søkrigen p262) February/March 1810 – Lt Falsen i/c naval aspects of the first Anholt expedition, which failed to reach Anholt for various reasons, sought to exonerate himself in a report to the Danish king (Frederick VI). He was then ordered to Fladstrand, to the flotilla there under the command of Lt P M Tuxen (care – there were three Tuxen brothers in this war)

• Peder Mandrup Tuxen born 1783
• Nikolai Henrich Tuxen born 1785 – both Peder and Nikolai were at Fladstrand during part of 1810 -1811.
• Søren Tuxen born 1790 served inter alia on the ship-of-the-line Dantzich on the Scheldt

(Søkrigen p263) 27 April 1810 – Seeking to prove himself, Falsen attacks a British frigate of 32 or 36 guns with his two large and two smaller gunboats (off Skagen?) for 90 minutes from 12:00 noon. The frigate is severely damaged, but saved by the arrival of a British ship-of-the-line, and escorted to Vingø Sand (off Gothenburg). Lt Brandt and Lt Trolle named in Danish reports. Other reports reaching Lt. Tuxen indicate the frigate had 24 dead, 35 wounded – including her captain – and much damage above and below the waterline. (can this frigate be identified in English sources?)

Look at HMS Tribune. She was engaged with 4 Danish gunboats on 12 May 1810, or at least that is what the account in the London Gazette of the letter gives as the date. If the account of the letter got the date wrong, this would be a good match. Acad Ronin (talk) 18:22, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

The NMM (file iv)record has ?12 may 1819 against this action for HMS Tribune. Clearly 1819 is wrong, with the 9 and the 0 on the keyboard next to each other - I have no other sources to check the precise date. Viking1808 (talk) 09:55, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Jørgen Conrad de Falsen

Moved Falsen's notes to draft article User:Viking1808/Jørgen Conrad de Falsen

Brandt

No reference found in Topsøe-Jensen

Buhl, Peter

Born 1789. Lieutenant Buhl lost an arm during the defence of Copenhagen on 27 August 1807. In May 1808 he was in the small gunboat Kanonjolle Nr. 1 at Kallebodstrand, and in June 1808 he was inspecting the equipment on the newly captured Tickler. In 1809 - 1810 he was with the Nakskov flotilla under Lieutenant Wulff, and on 23 May 1809 fought HMS Melpomene near Omø (southern Great Belt). In 1811 he took part in the Battle of Anholt but his gunboat was captured by Captain Steward on the retreat from that island.
(Sheldrake did capture gunboats No.1 and No.7 on 23 march 1811 - see London Gazette - second entry). Alternatively, Sheldrake captured Lugger No.1 and Gunboat No.9 on 27 March 1811 in the defence of Anholt (NMM file iii).
Exchanged and landed at Randers, Buhl was appointed captain of

• Kanonchalup Nr 6, and then of
• Prise Nr 2 (which had been captured from the British when stranded in 1809, and was retaken by the British in this convoy action in 1811. Danish records say her name under the British was Goth. ) In this he was in the attack on the convoy off Hjelm when he was again captured by Captain Steward, and again released. (Sheldrake and consorts captured four Danish gunvessels on 5 July 1811 (NMM file iii)
  

There is no record of "Goth" in Colledge or Winfield (neither among the commissioned vessels nor among the hired vessels), nor in Hepper's recording of losses. There is also no record of a letter of marque being issued to a "Goth". Looks like this could be another tender or other locally-acquired vessel. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 17:20, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

There is no Goth in NMM vi either.Acad Ronin (talk) 11:18, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

On 4 September 1811 he was reported well again (?wounded at convoy?) but fell down some steps and damaged his remaining arm.
Fortunes of war did not smile upon him. Lieutenant Buhl was killed in action aboard HDMS Najaden at the Battle of Lyngør. The captain of the enemy ship,HMS Dictator, was Captain Steward.

Henne, Claus Hartvig

Born 1776 In 1801 as second-in-command of the blockship Wagrien. Henne’s record is one of an engineer with work on harbours and canals. On 2 September 1809 he took part in the capture of HMS Minx On 1 April 1810 his designs for work on the facilities and defences of Grenå harbour were approved – but too late for Skibsted! In February 1811 he worked on two British ships – HMS Alros and HMS Pandora – that had stranded near Skagen. On one of these, 20 crew members had frozen to death.

Linde, Knud

Born 1789 In 1807, as a junior lieutenant, Linde commanded Mortar Ship No 2 (see Garde’s description of mortarbarkasse in Danish here) in the defence of Copenhagen. In 1808 with the gunboat flotilla in Kiel Fjord, he was wounded on 15 June during a battle with a British brig (name?) near Bülk (where?) In 1809 he was second in command of Tigress. On 2 September that year he was present at the capture of HMS Minx near Skagen. During 1810 to 1812 Linde commanded the flotilla at Hals (North of Randers) and on 12 September 1810 helped capture HMS Alban near Læsø. On 5 July 1811 he was at the convoy near Hjelm, and on 28 January 1812 was again in company with Falsen at the capture of the brig HMS Attack (1804) near Grenå. (Danish spelling Attacke)

Muhlenstedt

Topsøe-Jensen Vol 2, pages 225 - 226 Maltha Christian Mühlensteth 13/04/1786 to 24/01/1852 Captured during the attack on Anholt when his gunboat was sunk by a British brig. Exchanged, and later took part in the unlucky attack on a convoy at Hjelm.
Nothing new of significance here. Viking1808 (talk) 18:29, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Bibliography

• (in Danish)T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) : Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932 : (Officers of the Danish-Norwegian Naval Service 1660 -1814 and the Danish Naval Service 1814-1932) The two volumes of this book can be downloaded, courtesy of Friends of the Danish Naval Museum, from Volume 1 and Volume 2 Numerous deeper references to Danish sources are embedded in the text of this book.
• (in Danish) C F Wandell Søkrigen i de dansk-norske farvande 1807-14 : fra tabet af flaaden til freden i Kiel
• (in English)Thomas Munch-Petersen Defying Napoleon : Sutton 2007

External links

• example.com