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'''HDMS ''Nidelven''''' was a brig launched at Copenhagen on 1 December 1792. She was present at both British attacks on Copenhagen (1801 and 1807), and the British Royal Navy seized her at Copenhagen on 7 September 1807 at the surrender of Copenhagen. The British took her into service as HMS ''Nid Elven''. She served between 1808 and 1809, during which time she captured a small French privateer. She was laid up in 1809. The Navy sold her in 1814.
==Construction and design== ''Nidelven'' was one nine ''Lougen''-class brigs designed by the naval architect Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt.
==Danish service== In 1793 Captain Ferdinand A Braun commanded ''Nidelven'' in the home fleet, and in 1794–1795 sailed her to the West Indies<ref>Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 p193</ref>
In 1796 Captain Hans Michael Kaas (1760 - 1799) cruised the Norwegian coast, enforcing the neutrality rules.<ref>Topsøe-Jensen (1935), Vol. 1, p.710</ref>{{efn|He was the son of Captain Frederik Christian Kaas.}}
After a period in 1797 as watch ship at Altona,<ref>Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 p 97</ref> Captain Hans Holsten took ''Nidelven'' for two years to the Mediterranean,<ref>Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 pp 619 - 620</ref> returning to Copenhagen on 31 October 1800.
During the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) ''Nidelven'' served in Olfert Fischer's division in the Inner Run under Chamberlain Steen Bille and did not engage in any actual fighting.
In 1802 the ship saw service in the North Sea under Captain Cornelius Wieugel.<ref>Topsøe-Jensen Vol 2 p721</ref>
In 1805 ''Nidelven'' was in the home squadron under Captain Johan H. E. van Berger.<ref>Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 p 98</ref>
==British service== The British took possession of ''Nideleven '' under the terms of capitulation following the second battle of Copenhagen on 7 September 1807. She arrived at Woolwich on 24 October where she was fitted out from October to 20 March 1808. She was to be renamed ''Legere'' but the Admiralty canceled the name change.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=321}}
After refit she joined the British Navy as HMS ''Nid Elven''. ''Nid Elven'' was commissioned in February 1808 under Commander Richard James Lawrence O'Connor for the North Sea.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|pp=320-321}}
On 17 December 1808 she captured the French privateer brig ''General Rapp'' of eight guns and 41 men. ''General Rapp'' had left Danzig (now Gdansk) the evening before.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=17 January 1809|issue=16219|page=74}}</ref>{{efn|A first-class share of the head money for the 41 men was worth £38 5d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth 15s 8½d.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=11 September 1829|issue=18610|page=1689}}</ref>}}
On 14 May 1809 ''Ned Elvin'' captured ''Tros Softres''.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=20 March 1810|issue=16353|page=432}}</ref>
Between 20 September and 9 October ''Ned Elvin'' captured five Danish vessels and two boats.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=26 January 1811 |issue=16447 |page=165}}</ref>
{{HMS|Childers|1778|6}} was in sight when ''Nid Elven'' captured ''Susanna Catharina''. ''Childers'' also shared by agreement in ''Ned Elvin''{{'}}s capture of ''Wohlfarth'', and ''Hans Barend'' on 19 November 1809.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16416|pages=1668–1669||date=20 October 1810}}</ref>
''Nid Elven'' was laid up in December 1809.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|pp=320-321}}
==Fate== The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "Nid Elven, of 311 tons", lying at Sheerness, for sale on 3 November 1814.<ref>{{London Gazette|date=22 October 1814|issue=16949|page=2105}}</ref> She sold on that date for £600.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|pp=320-321}}
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==Citations== {{reflist}}
==References== * {{cite book |first1=Rif |last1=Winfield |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}} *{{in lang|da}}T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) “Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932“. Two volumes. Download [https://www.ronlev.dk/stater-og-andre-erhvervsfortegnelser/4089-officerer-i-den-dansk-norske-soetat-1660-1814-og-den-danske-soetat-1814-1932-1935.html here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213120206/https://www.ronlev.dk/stater-og-andre-erhvervsfortegnelser/4089-officerer-i-den-dansk-norske-soetat-1660-1814-og-den-danske-soetat-1814-1932-1935.html |date=13 February 2020 }}.
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