Ulrik Christian Kaas 21 April β 22 March was a Danish naval officer who rose to the rank of admiral. In he was awarded the Order of the Dannebrog [ 2 ]. Ulrik Christian Kaas was enrolled as a cadet in age 13 years the normal age for enrollment. Commissioned as Junior Lieutenant in , Kaas was again in North Africa from to - this time with the frigate Docquen, principally in Morocco.
On 3 June he happened to be visiting the frigate Falster in the harbour of Safi when that ship caught fire. From April he was appointed interim supply officer for the dry dock at Christianshavn, [ 6 ] Copenhagen, [ 2 ] a position which may have continued even while he served in ships in home waters until In became second-in-command of the ship-of-the-line St Croix in the home squadron.
From 3 September Ulrik Kaas was given leave of absence for a period which extended to five months for him to travel to Jutland, where he was to be married. Promotion to commander came in March and with it the ship-of-the-line Mars which took part in the poorly planned expedition to Algiers. The survivor, one Captain Bezancene, fled over the border to Spain. Mars , in company with Havfruen , was ordered back to Denmark in January but overwintered at Lisbon, eventually arriving in Danish waters at the end of May In he was an observer at the sea trials of the two frigates Kiel and Perlen.
When on 11 May Commander Gerhard Christopher von Walterstorff took over as head of the naval base at Holmen head, Kaas became the Quartermaster General ekvipagemester at Nyholm in his place and at the same time admitted to membership of the Construction Committee.
In and Kaas captained Holsten to the Cape of Good Hope to escort in convoy a number of homeward bound East India and Chinese trading ships, as well as carrying reinforcements for the Danish colonies in Guinea which had come into conflict with the Dutch.
