Friderich Michael Krabbe

Frederik Michael Krabbe (28 May 1725 – 25 October 1796) was a Danish naval officer and master shipbuilder (fabrikmester).

Personal Born at Esrum, some 22 miles north of Copenhagen, on 28 May 1725, Krabbe was the son of a regimental quartermaster. His first marriage, to Cæcilie Andrea Bille (whose father was rear admiral Daniel Ernst Bille)at the naval church at Holmen, established links with two important Danish naval families - the Billes and the Stibolts His second wife was Christiane Charlotte Charisius(1738-1771), daughter of Constantin Augustus Charisius of Constantinborg and Kirsten baronesse Gyldenkrone. His third wife was Edel Margrethe Sehested (1749-1827), daughter of Anders Sehested of Stamhuset BroholmWibeke Marie von Pultz.

Career He joined the navy in 1741 as a very junior cadet, and in 1746 saw service in Sydermanland which was with the squadron off Algiers. Promoted to junior Lieutenant in 1749, he was granted, in 1750, leave of six months to stay at Bornholm. In September of that year he started as an apprentice at the Construction Commission and embarked two years later together with Lieutenant F. C. Kaas on a study tour to Britain, France and Holland to learn their methods of shipbuilding. This tour took four years and included England, Brest, Rochefort, Toulon, Italy, Pisa, Venice, Naples, Marseilles and Amsterdam. He returned in November 1756 and was appointed a full member of the Construction Commission. to an Italian design, and the joint design of the frigate Christianborg.

Ships-of-the-line Jylland (1760) Mars (1762) Prindcesse Sophia Magdalena (1763) Prindsesse Wilhelmine Caroline (1764) (1764) Norske Løve (1765) Dronning Caroline Mathilde (1766) renamed Øresund Christian den Syvende (1767) Den Ptrægtige / Dronningen (1768) (1772) Wagrien (1773)

Frigates Christiansborg (1758) Langeland (1758) Søe Ridderne (1758) Falster (1760) Havfruen (1760) Alsen (1763) Tranqvebar (1762) Christiansøe (1766) Samsøe (1770) Perlen (1773) Christiania (1774) Cronborg (1776) Færøe (1766) and one unnamed frigate designed 1770.

Lesser ships.