She is best known for being one of the ships that picked up some of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's artworks and other belongings in Rome, some forty years after another Danish naval vessel by the same name had transported him the other way.

The Royal Danish Navy's first music corps played its first performance on board the Thetis in 1857.

[5] Thorvaldsen, who had moved back to Copenhagen in 1838, had returned to Rome in September 1841 to finish some unsettled affairs.

He and his escorting officer, Harald Peter Oxholm [da], would board the ship in Naples and later return to Denmark over land.

The marine artist Frederik Theodor Kloss was, thanks to the patronage of Christian VIII, also admitted to the ship as a passenger.

The boxes contained some of Thorvaldsen's own sculptures and reliefs as well as his personal collections of copperplate engravings, drawings, coins, caskets, antique vases, jewelry, fragments, paintings and books.

He therefore ended up continuing with Maria Christina to Marseille and completing the rest of the journey over land.

Garde) were tasked with transporting Crown Prince Frederick (VII) to the Faroe Islands with a stop in Scotland on the way.

The Mediterranean squadron consisted of Thetis and Gefion as well as the steam ship Hekla and the brig Mercurius.

A. Carstensen in the negotiations with Marocco about the discontinuation of the annual bribes paid by Denmark.

[3] The Royal Danish Navy's first music corps played its first performance on board Thetis in 1857.

[3] In 1861, in anticipation of an escalation of the conflict with Prussia, Thetis was again fitted out for active military service.

He has also created a painting of himself and some of his fellow officers on land leave in what is believed to be Constantinople.

[13] Carl Dahl created a painting of The Frigate Thetis and the Corvette Flora On the River Tagus (1844).

The other one, entitled Danish Frigates Fitting Out in the Spring of 1849, shows her with Gefion, Bellona, Havfruen and Rota in Copenhagen.