Baltic Naval Stores — 1800–1801

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Ships in Baltic ice. Not a portrait.

Overview

The Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview already says Britain depended on Baltic timber, hemp, tar, and pitch. The League of Armed Neutrality of the North 1800–1801 threatened to close that sea to British trade.¹

The Crisis

This note covers that supply crisis only. Sound dues, later grain trades, and the 1807 bombardment stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Sea_Lanes_Straits stays empty.

The Pitt and Addington governments sent a Baltic fleet to break the league before Russian and Swedish ships could escape the spring ice. After the 2 April 1801 battle and the 9 April armistice, the Baltic reopened to British naval stores.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit — pp. 374–408
• @white2005nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview
• League of Armed Neutrality of the North 1800–1801

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Economics_Commerce
• Trade_Routes_Index — first primary note in an empty trade-routes room

Same Campaign

• Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview
• League of Armed Neutrality of the North 1800–1801
• Copenhagen — Denmark
• Hyde Parker — British Admiral
• King’s Deep Soundings — Copenhagen 1 April 1801

Cross-Domain

• Diplomacy_Treaties_Index
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Timber, hemp, tar, pitch; close the Baltic: Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview and the league note. ↩

2. Ice; 2 April; armistice 9 April; Baltic reopened: same battle note. Do not add Sound dues or 1807 until a page is licensed. ↩