Axel Thorsen (1810/1814–1863) was a Norske Kanonskonnert built in Trondheim, and launched on 28 April 1810.

She was one of ten such ships built in either Bergen or Trondheim for the Danish-Norwegian navy before the end of the Napoleonic Wars (and English Wars) when Norway became independent of Denmark at the Treaty of Kiel in 1814.

Axel Thorsen is a character in very old Danish folk tales and poetry[1] Axel Thorsen, along with her sister gunships Nornen and Valkyrien joined Müller's Finmark Squadron in 1810[2] Axel Thorsen was used in fisheries protection until 1839, and commercially thereafter.

[3] In 1864 this ship took part in the Swedish expedition to Spitzbergen led by Baron Nordenskiöld.

[3] She was lost in the Arctic Ocean off Novaya Zemlya in August 1872.