Talk:HDMS Lolland (1810)

Which Ship?

Quote from this article "Danish records give the three Danish vessels names as Lolland, Lougen, and Kiel. James reports that the three were the 20-gun Langeland, the 18-gun Lügum, and the 16-gun Kiel" - There is no ship listed in the Danish Naval Museum's Black Folder (sorte registrant) with the name Lügum, nor any similar sounding name starting with the letter L. other than Lougen as the Danes report. Equally, there is no indication in the biographical note (in Topsøe-Jensen Vol II p155) on Lieutenant Frederik Michael Franz Løvenskiold who joined the Langeland on 13 March 1811 and stayed with the ship until January 1815 of any worthwhile engagements with the enemy. It appears that James' sources are incorrect in these two aspects.
Can anyone throw any more light on this? Viking1808 (talk) 14:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

The brig Langeland is named in this 1833 source, published in Christiana (now Oslo). "Samlinger til det norske folks sprog og historie, Volum 2" (Collections of Norwegian Peoples language and history) which is most likely James' original source. (The report reads much as a straight translation) The report on the action comes, however, from the pen of Hans Peter Holm (Topsøe-Jensen Volume I page 599), then captain of the Lolland. Additionally, no officer known to be on the Langeland has any reference to this action in his Topsøe-Jensen biographical entry. Viking1808 (talk) 16:52, 25 January 2012 (UTC)