File talk:Hjuldamper Cimbria af København malet 1854.jpg

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The sailing ships in the background are (British) Royal Navy vessels. The London newspaper The Globe, Saturday 8 April 1854 reported:

"Copenhagen, April 2.— lt being publicly known that the British fleet had arrived from Kiel in Kioge Bay, the Danish steamer Cimbria, with 400 passengers on board, went down there on the anniversary of Nelson’s bloodiest battle, 63 years ago - the battle of Copenhagen. The weather was fine, nearly summerlike, with a breeze from the northwest. We left the harbour at Copenhagen at halfpast eleven o’clock, and at one o'clock we arrived at the station of the fleet. It is anchored two miles off Stevus, in the very bight of Kioge Bay, and is moored in a semicircle upon a square of one-and-a-half English miles, the Duke of Wellington in the centre, with Sir Charles Napier’s blue flag at the fore, and next to him on one side the St. Jean d’Acre (the only one of the ships which has its name written on the stern), then the Royal George, then the Edinburgh, and then, next to the land, a very large three-decker, with a red flag — I believe the Neptune. There are two ships more with red flags, whose uames we are not able to make out. Nineteen vessels lie there in all, in two lines, the smaller paddle wheel steamers ahead, and the larger ships in the second line. We sailed round the fleet, and the Danes cheered each ship, especially the Duke, with repeated hurrahs, which were answered from the fleet with louder cheers, and from two of them, the St. Jean d’Acre and the Neptune, with music."

Davidships (talk) 13:04, 7 September 2022 (UTC)