The Danish capitulation is signed on September…
September 1807 CE
Denmark agrees to surrender its navy and its naval stores.
In return, the British will undertake to leave Copenhagen within six weeks.
Peymann had been under orders from the Crown Prince to burn the Danish fleet, which he had failed to do, though the reason for his failure is unknown.
Thus, on September 7, 1807, Peymann surrenders the fleet (eighteen ships of the line, eleven frigates, two smaller ships, two ship-sloops, seven brig-sloops, two brigs, one schooner and twenty-six gunboats).
In addition, the British break up or destroy three seventy-four-gun ships-of-the-line on the stocks, along with two of the ships-of-the-fleet and two elderly frigates.
After her capture, one ex-Danish ship-of-the-line, Neptunos, runs aground and is burnt on or near the island of Hven.
Then, when a storm arises in the Kattegat, the British destroy or abandon twenty-three of the captured gunboats.
The British will add the fifteen captured ships-of-the-line that reach Britain to the British Navy but only four—Christian VII (80), Dannemark (74), Norge (74) and Princess Carolina (74)—will see subsequent active service.
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