Danish Navy

[Brian James]

Absalon Class Support Ship HDMS Esbern Snare pictured at Malta in 2018.

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HDMS Niels Juel schematic as built in 1918 and pictured on sea trials at Copenhagen post her major refit on July 10th 1936...She was a Training Ship built for the Royal Danish Navy between 1914 and 1923 at Orlogsværftet Shipyards, Copenhagen.Originally designed before World War I as a Monitor, construction was slowed by the war and she was redesigned as a Training Cruiser. Completed in 1923 she made training cruises to the Black and Mediterranean Seas, South America and numerous shorter visits to ports in northern Europe. She often served as a flagship and occasionally was used as a royal yacht for visits to overseas possessions and other countries.
Niels Juel was extensively modernized in the mid-1930s (pictured) and remained operational after Nazi Germany occupied Denmark in 1940. When the Germans attempted to seize the Danish Fleet in August 1943, she attempted to escape to Sweden, but was attacked and damaged by German bombers. She was deliberately run aground by her crew to deny the ship to the Germans, but Niels Juel was not badly damaged. The ship was refloated several months later and repaired by the Germans. They renamed her Nordland and used her as a Training Ship. She was scuttled by them in May 1945 and her wreck was salvaged in 1952.

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Also from the Dane's fairly recent past, powerful big Missile Boats!!


Specs:

Type: Missile boat
Displacement: 260 tons, standard
Length: 46 m (150 ft 11 in)
Beam: 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)
Draft: 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Propulsion: 3 x Rolls-Royce Proteus gas turbines (12,750 hp) and 2× General Motors 12V-71 diesel engines(730 hp)
Speed: 40 kn (74 km/h) on gas turbines; 12 kn (22 km/h) on diesels
Range: 400 nmi (740 km) at 36 kn (67 km/h)
Complement: 24
Sensors and
processing systems: 1× Terma 20T48 navigation radar
1× Philips Elektronik AB 9GR-208 air/surface radar
1× Bofors Electronics 9LV Mk 1 (RAKEL 203) fire control radar
1 × 9LV Naval Combat Management System
Racal Cutlass B-1 ESM

Armament: 1 × 76-mm OTO Melara Gun
2× Stinger
8× RGM-84 Harpoon
2–4× 553 mm TP 613 torpedoes or 20 naval mines

Ten were built, 1 has been preserved.............DFO

[Brian James]

Absalon Class Support Ship HDMS Esbern Snare,2019.

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Thetis Class OPV HDMS Vædderen pictured at Port Kolafjordur, Faroe Islands, January 2019.

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Danish Coastal Defense Ship,Herluf Trolle Class,HDMS Olfert Fischer pictured c1930.

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Danish Navy,Knud Rasmussen Class OPV HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen pictured in Uummannaq Fjord,Greenland,2019.

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Herluf Trolle Class Coastal Defence Ship HDMS Olfert Fischer pictured c1908.

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Here is the Danish museum ship PEDER SKRAM, former frigate armed with x-USN 5"38 twins.

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Lead Ship,Danish Glenten Class Torpedo Boat HDMS Glenten (T4) pictured with her sister ship HDMS Høgen (T5) at Aalborg c1935.