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King's Deep Soundings — Copenhagen 1 April 1801

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King’s Deep Soundings — Copenhagen 1 April 1801

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A sounding boat marking a night channel. No people.

Overview

Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory sounded the King’s Deep overnight on 1 April 1801, inshore of the Danish line off Copenhagen — Denmark. The Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview already places him in HMS St George — 98-gun Second Rate for those soundings, so Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview could take twelve ships into the channel at dawn on 2 April.1

The Night

This note covers 1 April 1801 only. It is a seamanship fact, not a Hardy biography and not a history of HMS St George — 98-gun Second Rate. Celestial theory, Harrison, the Hydrographic Office, and the 1807 bombardment stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

St George was too deep for the inshore channel. Nelson transferred into HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate. Hyde Parker — British Admiral stayed distant in HMS London. At dawn Bellona, Russell, and HMS Agamemnon — Overview ran aground entering the channel — the battle note says the Danes may have moved the buoys — cutting the inshore force from twelve to nine.2

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Footnotes

  1. Hardy in St George; overnight soundings 1 April; inshore of the Danish line: Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview and the Hardy note. ↩

  2. St George too deep; transfer to Elephant; Parker distant; three ships aground at dawn, possibly moved buoys: same battle note. Do not add a St George career or 1807 until a page is licensed. ↩

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