Broder Knud Brodersen Wigelsen
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Broder Knud Brodersen Wigelsen was an officer in the Royal Danish-Norwegian navy at the time of the gunboat war with Britain. After the war he served in various capacities, principally in the Danish customs service.
Broder Knud Brodersen Wigelsen
Niels Truslew: HDMS Lougen and HMS Seagull, 1808.
HMS Safeguard being towed into Udbyhøj,Randers Fjord
Broder Knud and Karen Magdalene Wigelsen
HMS Seagull (1805)
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HMS Seagull was the name vessel for the Seagull class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 1 July 1805 and saw active service under the British flag in Danish waters until 19 June 1808 when Dano-Norwegian forces sank her. The Danes raised her and refitted her for service in the Dano-Norwegian Navy, which she served until the end of the English Wars in 1814. She then was transferred to the Norwegians. She was finally decommissioned in 1817.
Niels Truslew: Den engelske Kutterbrig Seagull, Cap. Cathcart, buxeres, ramponeret og synkefærdig, ind i Fosholm Bugten ved Christiansand, efter en 2 Timers haardnakket Fægtning den 19de Junii 1808, med Orlogs Briggen Lougen, Captain Lieut. P. F. Wulff, tilsidst understøttet af 4 KKanonbaade, under Lieut. Føns. 19+9-
The five naval brigs Samsøe, Seagul, Kiel, Allart, and Alsen, under the overall command of Capt. Kriegers, attacked an English convoy in the North Sea on 16 July 1810, and brought their prizes into Christiansand in Norwway