On 13 August, Captain Gerner attempted to follow orders and bring his ship into the Copenhagen naval base but contrary winds and tides forced him to sail northward.

Friderichsværn suffered 12 dead and twenty other casualties (of which five died later); HMS Comus had two men wounded.

On 13 August 1807, as the British fleet assembled outside Copenhagen, Friderichsværn was ordered to return to base, but the wind was from the south-east so the captain tried to reach the Kattegat and Norway.

Two British Royal Navy ships chased her and the faster HMS Comus soon captured her.

[11] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Comus 15 Augt.