HNoMS Axel Thorsen (1810)
# HNoMS Axel Thorsen (1810)

Axel Thorsen (1810/1814–1863) was a Norske Kanonskonnert built in Trondheim, and launched on 28 April 1810. She was one of ten such ships built in either Bergen or Trondheim for the Danish-Norwegian navy before the end of the Napoleonic Wars (and English Wars) when Norway became independent of Denmark at the Treaty of Kiel in 1814.

## Origin of Name

Axel Thorsen is a character in very old Danish folk tales and poetry

## Danish Service

Axel Thorsen, along with her sister gunships Nornen and Valkyrien joined Müller's Finmark Squadron in 1810

## Norwegian Service

Axel Thorsen was used in fisheries protection until 1839, and commercially thereafter.

In 1864 this ship took part in the Swedish expedition to Spitzbergen led by Baron Nordenskiöld.

## Fate

She was lost in the Arctic Ocean off Novaya Zemlya in August 1872.

## Citations

* ↑ Oehlenschläger page 117
* ↑ Fra Krigens Tid - Muller
* 1 2 Modelships website
* ↑ "Shipping Intelligence". Glasgow Herald. No. 10176. Glasgow. 10 August 1872.
