Ægir (ship, 1841)
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The Ægir was a Danish marine - Seitenraddampfer and gunboat from the year 1841st
history
The ship was built on behalf of the Royal Danish Navy as the first all-steel gunboat in England by William Fairbairn & Co. in Millwall in south-east London . After completion, the paddle steamer was transferred to Denmark by Captain Hans Carl Bodenhoff and reached Copenhagen on October 12, 1841 . Between the years 1842 to 1856 it was also the royal yacht and was used by the then royal family for trips.
The Ægir was on loan to the Danish Post from 1857 to 1862 and was in service as a mail ship . In the 1860s the Ægir was used to survey Danish waters and from 1864 until the end of 1871 it was used again as a gunboat in the navy.
On December 5, 1871, the paddle steamer was sold to the scrap recycling company Petersen & Albeck in the southern harbor of Copenhagen, removed from the shipping register and scrapped in 1872.
Ship data
The steel hull had a length of 42.92 meters and was 5.64 meters wide. The draft was 1.69 meters. The steam engine had a shaft power of 80 hp. In addition, the Ægir had two sailing masts. The engine room , wheelhouse and the two side-mounted paddle wheels were amidships. Originally the armament consisted of two 24-pounder cannons and a 4-pounder howitzer, later two 18-pounder cannons and eight 1-pounder falconets were installed. In the historical documents, the ship's crew is given as 75 people.
literature
- “Fælles kræfter - Danske dampskibe indtil 1870 III”, af Holger Munchaus Petersen, Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseets maritime skrifter no. 12, Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet, Esbjerg, 1986 ISBN 87-87453-25-8
Web links
- Dampskibet ÆGIR med kong Christian VIII ombord i 1841 - detail of a painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
swell
- Ægir (1841–1871) on navalhistory.dk with photo
- Ægir on jmarcussen.dk