Danish-Norwegian losses cannot be reconstructed precisely because many volunteers were not consistently recorded before or after the battle. Estimates for those killed, wounded, and captured range from roughly 1,100 to 2,200, while Olfert Fischer put the figure between 1,600 and 1,800. British records list 963 killed and wounded. Patriotic courage could not substitute for trained crews able to load, aim, and fight almost automatically under fire. Two Danish ships sank, one exploded, and twelve were captured. Britain expected that further Baltic fighting might follow and could not spare prize crews, so it burned eleven captured vessels and retained only Holstein, later commissioned as HMS Nassau. Its mixed battery made it a 64-gun ship of limited general utility, but it served in selected missions and returned against Denmark during the 1807 attack on Copenhagen.
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The cost of Copenhagen's static defence
Danish-Norwegian losses remain uncertain because many volunteers lacked naval experience, while Britain recorded 963 killed and wounded and destroyed most captured Danish ships.