Gefion
1849
(Spider Navy SN-0-11)
- Class: Frigate
- Displacement: tons
- Dimensions: 165 x 41 x 19 ft.
- Armament: 48
- Complement:
- Builder:
- Laid down: 1843
- Launched:
- Completed: 1846
- Notes: During the 1848-1850 Schleswig War, a powerful Danish squadron approached the Prussian Holstein batteries at Eckernfjorde, just northeast of Kiel, on 5 Apr 1849. Hampered by inconvenient winds, the attack was unsuccessful, with flagship Christian VIII set on fire and eventually exploding, while Gefion drifted onto the shore and stuck fast. She was captured and taken into the German federal fleet as Eckenfjorde. Transferred to Prussia and renamed Gefion in 1852. Operated as training ship; became barracks ship at Kiel in 1870; stricken 1880 and used as coal hulk; broken up 1891.
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