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NAVAL HISTORY
1801
LORD NELSON AT COPENHAGEN.
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alone. In the British accounts, the Danish alleged loss by shot is mixed up with the loss by prisoners taken; and the whole is made to amount to about 6000 men.

The following table, besides showing how the Danish vessels were disposed of, places the British ships, from the Polyphemus downwards, in the order in which they anchored; nor does the station of each of the latter, in reference to her opponent or opponents in the Danish line, materially vary from what it really was. A column for the official numerical loss, and another, to the best of our ability, for the surviving first lieutenant, of each British ship engaged, have also been added

DANISH. How disposed of BRITISH LOSS First Lieutenants
      K W  
    Désirée - 4 Andrew King
    Russel - 6 Samuel Bateman
    Bellona 11 72 John Delafons
Provesteen Taken and burnt, having been forsaken when the guns were useless. Polyphemus 6 25 Edward Hodder
Wagner Isis 33 88 Robert Tinkler
Rensburg Driven on the shoals, and burnt by the British.
Nyburg Escaped ; afterwards sank Edgar 31 111 Joshua Johnson
Jutland Taken and burnt by the British. Ardent 30 64 Andrew Mott
Suersishen
Cronburg
Hajen
Dannebrog Caught fire, and blew up after the action.
Elwen Escaped. Glatton 18 37 Rob. Brown Tom
Grenier's float
Aggerstans Ditto, and afterwards sank Elephant 10 13 Wm. Wilkinson
Zealand Driven under the Trekroner battery, and taken; afterwards burnt.
Char. Amelia Taken and afterwards burnt. Ganges 7 1 William Morce
Sohesten
Holstein Taken; put in sailing condition and carried away. Monarch 56 164 John Yelland
Indosforethen Taken, and afterwards burnt
Hielpern Escaped Defiance 24 51 David Mudie
    Amazon 14 23 Jos. Ore Masefield
    Blanche 7 9 Thos. McCulloch
    Alcmène 5 19 Rt. Wal. Dunlop.
    Dart 3 1 Richard Hawkes
      253 688  

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