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This is a model of the warship Norske Love which was constucted by Master F.M. Krabbe (1725-96) and built by the Navys' ship-yard on Nyholm near Copenhagen. The ship was given the building number 35. 
Building commenced in May 1764 and the launching took place on 30th April, 1765. The ship was finished and equipped on 10th October, 1767.
Norske Love was the second built from a series of three, the two others being 'Printz Friderich' and 'Dronning Caroline Mathilde' (later called 'Oresund' in 1772). The ship was named after the Norwegian Lion and the Danish-Norwegian imperial coat of arms. 
The length of the ship was 167 (Danish) feet over the sterns, width 45 feet and depth, fore and aft, 18 feet 9 inches and 20 feet. There was a normal crew of 667 men and an armament of 70 canons of iron with 26 canons 24 pd. on the lower deck, 26 canons 18 pd. on the middle deck and 18 canons 8 pd. on the upper deck. All ornaments, made by the sculptor C. Mollerup being reminders of Norway. On the transom there is a fisherman and a farmer, symbolising the most important trades of Norway, agriculture and fishing. 
The Norske love was used as a guard ship on Oresund and other Danish waters. In 1779 the ship was repaired and in 1795, after having been stripped into a block ship, was used to give shelter for homeless families after the fire in Copenhagen that same year.
In 1798 it was deleted from the navys' registers. 
This model, which is built in wood to a scale of 1:75 and based on the origional plans, took about 2500 hours to make, spread over a five year period. 
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