Peter Christian Petersen (22 June 1791 – 4 July 1853) was a Norwegian naval officer.
[1] In 1808, during the Gunboat War, he was given the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy.
[1] In 1814 the Royal Norwegian Navy was re-established,[3] and Petersen was made Premier Lieutenant here in 1815.
He was an aide-de-camp of King Charles III John for some years, and commanded the ship Ørnen from 1840 and Freia from 1844.
He succeeded Jochum Nicolai Müller,[1] and commanded the Navy until his death,[2] which occurred in July 1853 in Kristiania.