HMS Norge (1807) explained

HDMS Norge was a Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy ship-of-the-line, built to a design by F. C. H. Hohlenberg. The British Royal Navy seized her in 1807, together with the rest of the Danish fleet after the second battle of Copenhagen. She served off Spain, in the editerranean, and in the North Sea. Then in 181

In British Service

She was fitted out at Portsmouth from 21 November 1807 to 11 December 1808.

Napoleonic Wars

She was commissioned in April 1808 under Captain Edmund Boger. She was at Corunna in January 1809. It had been intended to rename her as Nonsuch in 1809 but the order was rescinded. From 1810 she was commanded by Captain John Sprat Rainier and was in the vicinity of Cadiz. In 1811 she was under the command of Temporary Captain William Waller, deployed in the Mediterranean. From 1812 to 1814, she was under the command of Captain Samuel Jackson, and sailed the North Sea.

War of 1812

In August 1814, she was under the command of Captain Charles Dashwood. In September 1814, she set sail for North America, in convoy with transport ships carrying Major General John Keane and reinforcements to North America.^[1] Embarked aboard the Norge were Major Munro's company of the Royal Artillery and Lieutenant Hill. The crew of the Norge participated in the Battle of Lake Borgne where her quartermaster was killed. The British lost 17 men killed and 77 wounded. then evacuated the wounded.^[2] In 1821 the survivors of the flotilla shared in the distribution of head-money arising from the capture of the American gun-boats and sundry bales of cotton.In 1847 the Admiralty issued a clasp (or bar) marked "14 Dec. Boat Service 1814" to survivors of the boat service who claimed the clasp to the Naval General Service Medal.

Fate

She was paid off in August 1815. In March 1816 she was sold for £3000 at Chatham.

References

• Book: Hill, Benson Earle . Recollections of an Artillery Officer, Vol. 1 . 1836 . Richard Bentley . London . H. M. S. Norge . 614334239 .
• Book: James, William . William James (naval historian) . A full and correct account of the military occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America; with an appendix, and plates. Volume II. 1818 . Printed for the author and distributed by Black et al. . London . 2226903 .
• Book: James, William . 1902 . The naval history of Great Britain (1813–1827) . New six volume . 6 . London . Macmillan .
• Boger,_Edmund . sup . 1 . 168.
• Waller,_William . 2 . 1 . 327-329.
• Dashwood,_Charles . 984.
• Dashwood, Francis Robert . 264.
• Walker,_John_(a) . 1239.
• Book: Surtees, William . 2005 . 1833 . Twenty-five years in the Rifle Brigade. . William Blackwood . 1191238522 . Google Books .
• Book: Rif . Winfield . British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth Publishing. 2008 . 978-1-86176-246-7.

Notes and References

1. Surtees, p.325, 'The force that embarked at the same time with us [18th September 1814], consisted of the 93rd (Highlanders), a company of artillery, some rocketeers, a squadron of the 14th light dragoons, without horses, and our five [rifle] companies, the whole under the command of General Keane.'
2. Despatch from Lockyer to Cochrane dated 18 December 1814, giving an account of the battle and casualties suffered, reproduced in