Andreas Gerner was a Danish naval officer who was also employed in the building of ships for the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy.
Personal Gerner was the grandson of Henrik Gerner, the bishop of Viborg and the father of Henrik Gerner, the fabrikmester shipbuilder. KommandørkaptajnEquivalent to Commander - see Ranks and insignia of NATO navies' officers Gerner was born in 1698 and died in 1749.Project Runeberg
Career In 1735 Andreas Gerner was sent abroad as a senior lieutenant to study shipbuilding, and on return he was entrusted with the building of some ships (but never achieved the top post of fabrikmester to the Royal Danish navy). In 1746 he bought three snows in England.
His largest ship, the ship-of-the-line FyenRecord card for Fyen of 50 guns, was deemed unsuitable for use with the fleet even while it was still on the stocks and so it was transferred to the Danish East India Company. In this capacity the design proved a great success and copied for future armed trading vessels.Gjødesen pp 11 -12 Notes attached to the ships plans indicate that Fyen'''s design was inspired by the British ship HMS Augusta (1736) at Deptford.Royal Danish Naval Museum database - Fyen (click vis for plans and notes)
On his deathbed, he is recorded as having warned his sons not to have a career in shipbuilding, as this was a sure way to lose a fortune. His son Henrik did not heed this advice and became a very successful fabrikmester''.
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Citations This article includes information gleaned from the Danish Wikipedia pages :da:Fabrikmester and :da:Henrik Gerner (skibskonstruktør) Project Runeberg: Dansk biografisk Lexikon /Vol 5. Faaborg - Gersdorff / p 614 (1887–1905) Author: Carl Frederik Bricka Gjødesen, P.F. (1900) Mindeskrift om Henrik Gerner. Publisher Denmark : Sølieutenants-Selskabet (contains details of Andreas)