Maritime History

HDMS Bellona (1830)

HDMS Bellona was a frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, which she served from 1835 to 1862. On her maiden voyage to the Mediterranean Sea, she picked up some of Bertel Thorvaldsen's sculptures. Thorvaldsen lived 40 years in Rome. In 1840, she was sent on a partly diplomatic and partly scientific expedition to South America.

Also on this shelf

See also

• ▸HMS Belleisle (1819)
• ▸Culture of Melbourne
• ▸HMS Montagu (1901)

Uncatalogued shelf

Text from Wikipedia; plate via Wikimedia Commons. Text CC BY-SA 4.0; plate freely licensed (see Commons). Source record. Images and catalogue data are reproduced from open-access collections.