HDMS ''Indfødsretten'' (lit. Citizenship) was a ship of the line of the

Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy The history of the Danish navy began with the founding of a joint Dano-Norwegian navy on 10 August 1510, when King John appointed his vassal Henrik Krummedige to become "chief captain and head of all our captains, men and servants whom we now h ...

, launched in 1776. She sank in an unknown location in the Atlantic Ocean on her way back from

Tranquebar Tharangambadi (), formerly Tranquebar ( da, Trankebar, ), is a town in the Mayiladuthurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on the Coromandel Coast. It lies north of Karaikal, near the mouth of a distributary named Uppanar of the Kave ...

in 1783.

Construction and design

''Indfødsretten'' was constructed at Nyholm Dockyard to a design by

Henrik Gerner Henrik Gerner (1742–1787) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in shipbuilding and naval architecture. His interests as an entrepreneurial engineer led to unsinkable gun platforms, horse-driven dredging machines, and desalination equipmen ...

. She was laid down on 25 March 1775, launched on 11 May 1776 and the construction was completed in 1778. She was with a beam of and a draught of . Her complement was 559 men and her armament was 60 24-pounder guns.

Career

In 1781, together with ''Kongens af Danmark'' and ''Disko''m she was used for escorting Danish Chinamen and Eastindiamen. On 9 June 1782, she sailed from Copenhagen, bound for Cape Town and Tranquebar. She arrived at Tranquebar on 10 January 1783. She departed from Tranquebar in February, reaching Cape Town in June. She departed from Cape Town on 23 June 1783, bound for Copenhagen. She sank on the way back in an unknown location somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. A ''barkasse'' and a

yard The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.914 ...

from the ship stranded on the south coast of Iceland.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Indfødsretten (1776) 1776 ships Ships of the line of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy Ships built in Copenhagen Ships designed by Henrik Gerner Captured ships Napoleonic-era ships