Danish Service
Fabricius was a student at the naval cadet academy in Copenhagen from the age of eleven, becoming a junior lieutenant on 20 December 1779. He was promoted to senior lieutenant on 25 January 1788. to lieutenant-commander in 13 November 1789 and to captain on 31 May 1799.
- 1781-1787
He was Ekvipagemester (Head of Naval Stores) for the Danish company trading from the Baltic to Guinea (i.e.Africa) from 1781 to 1787, during which time he journeyed to the Mediterranean with the warship Oldenborg and to China as first mate on the Charlotte Amalie.
- 1788 –1799
He saw service in the frigate Store Belt which, in 1788, was a cadet training ship, as second-in-command of the frigate Alsen when she was acting as guard-ship in the Øresund, and as captain of the smaller Speideren in the home squadron. In October 1788 he became deputy ekvipagemester at Frederiksværn on the Oslo fjord and in the following years was often away on tours of duties with various ships, as captain.
In 1795 Fabricius sailed to the Danish West Indies, but he could not tolerate the climate and was sent home by his senior officer. In 1797 he sailed as captain of the brig Lougen which was part of a squadron destined for the Mediterranean. On the outward journey his ship broached in a storm in the North Sea but righted herself with four feet of water in the hold and in the cabins. Fabricius and Lougen returned to Copenhagen on 6 August 1799.
- 1800-1809
After a period as second-in-command of the warship Danmark in the home squadron, and some sick leave, Fabricius was appointed in October 1801 as commander of Frederiksværn port and fortress, including the Norwegian flotilla of small gunboats. With the outbreak of hostilities between Denmark and Britain, he became a member of the Commission responsible for planning Norway’s maritime defences.
- 1810-1814
In 1810 his duties at Fredericksværn were reduced whilst he still retained command together with the directorships of the church, school, pilotage and quarantine departments. In 1812 Fabricius sought a transfer to another position where he could better do his best, but this achieved little.
On 1 March 1814 he resigned from his Danish war duties.
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