The Elbe was put into service as Elben for the Royal Danish Navy in 1832 and served as a guard ship on the Elbe in front of the Altona , which was then Danish .
In March 1848, it was launched , and on April 3, 1848 by the Schleswig-Holstein Navy as a training ship put into service. Details from the service operations are not known; the schooner, like the steamer Bonin and some gunboats, belonged to the reserve and was stationed in the Baltic Sea . In March 1851 the Elbe was returned to Denmark after the Schleswig-Holstein Navy was dissolved.
The schooner, presumably renamed Elben again, was decommissioned in 1858 and scrapped in 1866 .
literature
Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 1: Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats , Munich (Bernard & Graefe) 1982, p. 109. ISBN 3-7637-4800-8
Klaus Friedland: The Schleswig-Holstein Flotilla 1848 to 1853 , in: Walther Hubatsch (ed.): The first German fleet 1848-1853 , Herford / Bonn (ES Mittler & Sohn) 1981, pp. 41-50. ISBN 3-8132-0124-4