HDMS Thetis (1790)
Construction drawing by Stibolt. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Denmark | |
| Name | Thetis |
| Owner | Royal Danish Navy |
| Builder | Royal Danish Naval Dockyard |
| Launched | 7 August 1790 |
| Commissioned | 1790 |
| Fate | Sold in auction |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Frigate |
| Tons burthen | 658 |
| Length | gun deck 46.4 m |
| Beam | 11.76 m |
| Draught | 5.17 meters aft |
| Armament | 26 Danish 18-Pounder, 4 Danish 12-Pound Howitzer, 14 Danish 6-Pounder, 6 Danish 1-Pounder |
HDMS Thetis was a Fifth rate frigate of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy, which she served from 1790 to 1850. She is remembered as the ship that carried a young Bertel Thorvaldsen to Malta in 1796. The sculptor ended up living and working in Rome the next more than forty years. He created a large number of small portrait drawings of the officers on board the ship.