and Alsen'' attacking a British convoy in the North Sea on 16 July 1810 The Danes removed the crew of
Seagull, including the dead and wounded, and sent damage control parties aboard. However,
Seagull had more than five feet of water in her hull and sank suddenly, drowning several Danes.
Lieutenant Wigelsen, second in command of
Lougen, took command of the prize and recorded in his personal diary: Still,
Seagull had sunk in the relatively shallow waters of Fosseholmen Bay some five miles south-west of Kristiansand, with her port bulwark remaining above the water. The Danes were able later to raise and refit her for service with the Dano-Norwegian Navy. She was commissioned under 1st. Lieutenant O. Kr. Budde. On 25 November 1808, this ship, now known simply in Danish records as
Seagull, successfully fought and captured a Swedish gunboat,
Gripen.
Seagull was operating out of Kristiansand, and the capture was effected off Skagen.
Gripen was armed with nine guns (four 3-pounders, four 12-pounders, and a 36-pounder howitzer), and had a crew of 40 men under the command of Lieutenant Molbergs Besaling. On 12 May 1810,
Seagull participated in a skirmish against the British 36-gun off (present day
Mandal, Norway). In all, four Danish brigs and several gunboats attacked
Tribune before retiring back to Mandahl.
Tribune suffered nine men and boys killed, and 15 seamen and marines wounded. In the aftermath of the
Battle of Lyngør, a British reconnaissance by the cutter of Danish warships in the area reported the presence of
Seagull, of 16 guns and 100 men, lying at Christiansand - but concluded that the Danes could effect nothing of importance that summer (of 1812). By 1813,
Seagull was under the command of Kapteinløitnant C. Lütken. In late December
Seagull,
Lolland, and
Samsøe sailed to
Frederickshavn, Jutland to escort a convoy of vessels carrying much-needed grain to Norway. They succeeded in their mission, although they lost one of the grain ships to a Swedish privateer. ==Norwegian service (1814–1817)==