HDMS Lougen (1805)
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HDMS Lougen was a Danish naval brig launched in 1805. She saw service in the Danish navy and participated in two notable actions against the British Royal Navy during the Gunboat War. In 1814, as a result of the Treaty of Kiel, the Danes transferred her to the Norwegian navy. The Norwegians sold her to German merchants in the Scheld in 1825. She was finally shipwrecked near Bremerhaven in 1881.
An 1814 drawing of Lougen
C. W. Eckersberg: 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-
Gunboat War
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The Gunboat War was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and Great Britain supported by Sweden during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of employing small gunboats against the materially superior Royal Navy. In Scandinavia it is seen as the later stage of the English Wars, whose commencement is accounted as the First Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
Danish privateers intercepting an enemy vessel during the Napoleonic Wars, a painting by Christian Mølsted depicting an unspecified engagement in the Gunboat War
Danish shallop gunboat
The British bombardment of Copenhagen in September 1807
An illustration of the Battle of Zealand Point.