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| - The Dano-Norwegian Navy had based three gun-schooners Odin, Thor and Balder and the gun-barge Cort Adeler at the pilot station on Silda. However, only the first two of these, plus a third, smaller gunboat, were involved in the battle. On the 23 July the British frigates HMS Belvidera, Captain Richard Byron, and HMS Nemesis, Captain William Ferris, attacked. One of the Norwegian boats was able to hit at least one of the British boats, killing several British soldiers. Still, the British captured the station. The crew of one of the Danish boats scuttled their vessel and escaped. The British took the other three Danish vessels as prizes and sent their crews to imprisonment in England. The British also raided civilian ships moored in the vicinity. The British raided farms several places along the coast both before and after this incident.
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