&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Tuschlavering_udf%C3%B8rt_af_C.F._S%C3%B8rensen_1849.jpg) Thetis in a drawing from 1850.
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| History | |
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| Name | Rota |
| Owner | Royal Danish Navy |
| Builder | Royal Danish Naval Dockyard |
| Launched | 30 April 1840 |
| Commissioned | 28 April 1842 |
| Fate | Sold in auction |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Frigate |
| Length | 48.73 m |
| Beam | 12,08 |
HDMS Thetis was a frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, which she served from 1842 to 1864. She is best known for being one of the ships that picked up some of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's artworks and other belongings in Rome, some forty years after another Danish naval vessel by the same name had transported him the other way. In the meantime he had achieved international fame for his Neoclassical sculptures. Thorvaldsen, who had been back in Rome since September 1841, after moving back to Copenhagen in 1838, was also supposed to return with the ship. He did however, miss its departure by one day. The Royal Danish Navy's first music corps played its first performance on board the Thetis in 1857.