Corfits Ulfeldt (naval officer)

In October he was ordered to remain on the Elbe through the winter with Nældebladet and Skiens Galej, while Hummeren, Havhesten and Kronegalej were to return to Copenhagen.

[4] In March 1637 Ulfeldt received orders to convoy the Danish whaling fleet to Spitsbergen in the man-of-war De To Løver [5] as well as to reassert Christian IV's claim of sovereignty over the land.

In July of the same year he also met a French ship on the open sea at 78° N, the Fleur of Ciboure, under Dominique Daguerre, which had been hunting whales between 73° and 76° N. Ulfeldt brought it to Kobbefjorden, where about 400 barrels of blubber and 100 quintals of baleen were confiscated.

[6] The following spring he again received orders to convoy the fleet, this time with three ships: De Tre Løver, Lammet, and Stokfisken.

He again seized the French ships' goods (559 casks of oil and over 9,000 lbs of baleen) and drove them out of Port Louis, which the Danes renamed Ulfeldts Bay in his honor.

At Flækkerø (present-day Flekkerøya, an island off Kristiansand) Lammet struck a rock; later a storm separated the two ships for three days and nights.

At the Battle of Colberger Heide during 1 July 1644 (in which King Christian IV suffered the lose of an eye) Ulfeldt served aboard De Tre Kroner under Admiral Pros Mund as Vice-admiral of the squadron.