Dano-Norwegian Navys Norwegian Brig Division
What operated HDMS Allart (1807) from Sep 1807 to Aug 1809?
HDMS Allart ( 1807 ) HDMS Allart , a brig launched at Copenhagen in June 1807 , was amongst the ships taken by the British after the second Battle of Copenhagen . In British service , she was recaptured by Danish-Norwegian gunboats after venturing too close inshore . Her subsequent service was in the Dano-Norwegian Navys Norwegian Brig Division , which harried enemy frigates and convoys in Norwegian waters . On the separation of Denmark from Norway in 1814 , Allart transferred to the Norwegian navy , who sold her in 1825 . Origin and capture . Allart was one of a second series of four brigs that the Dano-Norwegian navy built to a design by Ernst Stibolt , and highly similar to that of the four brigs of the Lougen class . The British seized three of each class after the surrender of the Dano-Norwegian fleet . The British took Allart into service as Allart , ( or Alaart ) . British service . Allart arrived at Chatham on 15 December 1807 . She then spent the next six months until 16 May 1808 being fitted . Commander James Tillard commissioned her in February . On 27 July 1808 Alaart recaptured the sloop Goede Hoepe . In 1808 Alaart was with Admiral Saumarezs fleet , which was blockading Rager Vik ( Ragerswik or Rogerswick or Russian : Baltiyskiy ) where the Russian fleet was sheltering after the British 74-gun third rates and had destroyed the Russian 74-gun Vsevolod . Saumarez wanted to attack the fleet and ordered Baltic and to be prepared as fireships . However , reconnaissance by , among other vessels , revealed that the Russians had stretched a chain across the entrance to the harbor , impeding an attack by fireships . Still , on 13 September the British made a half-hearted attempt , with Erebus leading , and Salsette , , Allart , and the hired armed cutter Swan providing cover . The attack failed , with the loss of one vessel , a Russian brig that the British had taken earlier . Saumarez then abandoned the plan . On 9 April 1809 Alaart captured the Danish galiot Flyndern while was in sight . Nine days later Minx captured the Danish galiot Anna Johanna Christina while Alaart was in sight . At some point Alaart sent in her boats at Bornholm where they succeeded in destroying a large vessel under the guns of a Danish battery . On 30 April Alaart was among the vessels in company or in sight when captured the Charlotte . In July 1809 Louis A Robinson , Master’s Mate of Alaart , was in a prize that she had taken when two armed Danish boats attacked simultaneously . Robinson succeeded in capturing one and repelling the other . Then on 9 August he was in charge of another prize when a Danish privateer lugger made three unsuccessful attempts to board his vessel . Recapture . On 10 August 1809 , Allart , still under Commander James Tillard , chased the Dano-Norwegian warships Lougen and into Fredriksvern , only to find herself the quarry of 15 Danish gunboats , arrayed in three divisions . After a three-hour chase the gunboats closed with Allart and an engagement began . After an engagement that lasted two hours , Alaart struck , having had her rigging shot away and having lost one man killed and three wounded . The officer in command of the gunboat flotilla was Captain Søren Adolph Bille . Dano-Norwegian service . On 1 May 1810 , off southernmost Norway , the 36-gun fifth-rate frigate , attempted an attack on Samsøe and Alsen , which retreated towards land and the protection of the Mandal division of gunboats and the other brigs Allart and Seagull . Once reunited as a brig squadron , the four Danish-Norwegian brigs sought to bring Tribune to action in a lively sea but the frigate maintained sufficient searoom . Action was eventually broken off with some damage to Tribunes sails and her boats . On 12 May there was another inconclusive meeting , in the North Sea , of the four brigs with a British frigate , which retired with discretion after some sail and rigging damage in an 80-minute exchange of cannon fire . Allart was commanded by Premierløitnant G . Hagerup on this occasion . On 18 July 1812 , Henry Weir of reported that he had encountered the cutter , which had gone into Norwegian waters to reconnoiter after the Battle of Lyngør . Nimble had reported that seeing four brigs at Christiansand : Allart , Seagull , Langeland , and Alsen . Fate . Allart was in Norwegian waters in January 1814 when the Treaty of Kiel settled separation of Norway from Denmark , but it was not until 1816 that negotiations agreed that Allart was not Danish . She was written off the Danish books on 12 November 1816 . The Norwegian navy sold her in 1825 into merchant service .