Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin Gunboat War
a farkon karni na 19, United Kingdom ta gabatar da haramcin cinikayya a kan Denmark-Norway. A wannan lokacin, kasuwancin pomor ya zama muhimmi ga Arewacin Norway. An ba da doka ta halatta cinikin kai tsaye tsakanin masunta da pomors a lokacin Yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon a 1809. Royal Navy ta kama jiragen ruwa da yawa na Rasha, kuma saboda haka jiragen ruwa da yawa ba su yi tafiya ba fiye da Gabashin Finnmark. Sannan a cikin 1809, yayin Yaƙin Anglo-Rasha, gwamnatin Burtaniya ta kafa wani shinge a gabar tekun Norway a cikin shekarun da suka gabata, a tsakanin sauran abubuwa don dakatar da kasuwancin pomor da yanke hanyoyin samar da kayayyaki daga Arkangelsk. An rufe Tekun Farin, amma wasu jiragen ruwa na Rasha sun yi nasarar shiga. Amsar Norway ga toshewar ita ce ta ƙarfafa manyan tashoshin jiragen ruwa kamar Hammerfest kuma a cikin 1810 Norwegians sun kafa rundunar sojan ruwa ta musamman, "Finnmarkseskadren" ko "The Finnmark squadron", don kare kasuwancin pomor.