''Indfødsretten'' (Danish, lit. ''Citizenship'') was a 64-gun

ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...

in 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 ...

commissioned in 1787. She was one of a class of five ships designed and constructed by naval architect

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 ...

. The earlier ship of this name, ''Indfødsretten'' (1775), disappeared in the Atlantic in 1783

Construction and design

''Indfødsretten'' was constructed at Nyholm to a design by naval architect

. She was laid down on 27 June 1784, launched on 27 April 1786 and the construction was completed on 12 October 1787.

Career

During the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, this

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was commanded by Captain A. de Thurah with a complement of 394

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s. The ship suffered heavy casualties in the battle; 21 were killed and 41 wounded. The ship struck her colours at 15.00.Admiral Lord Nelson and his Navy
/ref> After her capture, ''Indfødsretten'' was burnt, along with all the other captured Danish warships except ''Holsteen''.

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