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DK: Pærlen (38 guns), 1804-1846
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Built as part of the Danish attempt to rapidly replace their fleet lost at the First Battle of Copenhagen, Pærlen went on to be captured in the Second Battle of Copenhagen and was put into service with the British Royal Navy as HMS Perlen (later spelt “Perlin”).
Her unusual stern is a hallmark of her designer, Frantz Hohlenberg, a rather revolutionary shipwright.
This model includes printable masts, yardarms, sails, staysails, boats/launches, fighting tops, an anchor and custom bases and nameplates.
As well as representing Pærlen, this model can function as a stand-in for her sister ships Rota and Venus.
Two files are included, with one being intended for resin printing alongside a “chunkier” FDM variant.
The surrender of the Danish fleet at Copenhagen left Denmark positioned on a continent engulfed by war, with extensive imperial and trade interests and with no fleet to protect them. The dire nature of the situation was not lost on the Danes and they immediately began rapidly rebuilding new ships.
Pærlen, along with her sister ships Rota and Venus, was a part of this effort and one of thirteen frigates that would be built by Frantz Hohlenberg. She is notable, alongside her sisters, for possessing a stern featuring no galleries or poop deck; her hull simply narrows before opening onto a balcony. This was intended to strengthen the stern as well as make the ship more resistant to raking fire. The change was not popular with naval officers, who resented the reduction in living space, comfort and felt the loss of the poop deck reduced visibility from the ship.
In 1807 she was surrendered along with fifteen other frigates to the Royal Navy at the Second Battle of Copenhagen and was taken into service as HMS Perlen.
She was fitted as a Lazarette or storage vessel in 1813.
In 1836 she was renamed “Perlin” and sold in 1846.
Henry Turner
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