The Færøe was a frigate constructed in the Netherlands in 1653 as the Agathe and purchased and renamed by the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy in 1666.

[1] Although the vessel was named for the Faroe Islands, it is often erroneously "translated" as Pharaoh (Danish: Farao).

[2] In 1671 and 1672, Færøe was the vessel used for the colonization of Sankt Thomas, the first surviving settlement in the Danish West Indies.

The delay caused its support ship, the Den forgyldte Krone, to return to Copenhagen without meeting it.

From an original contingent of 190, – 12 officials, 116 company "employees" (indentured servants), and 62 felons and former prostitutes, – only 104 remained, 9 having escaped at Bergen and 77 having died in transit.