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 poetryOehlenschläger page 117
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. Modelships website 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
References Fra Krigens Tid (1807 -1814) (From the wartime) edited by N A Larson, Christiana (Oslo) 1878. (Title page and Chapter headings ) Oehlenschläger: Gamle danske Folkeviser, Kiøbenhavn 1840 Berlingske Bogtrukkeri (on Google Books)