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The Royal Danish Naval Museum (Danish: Orlogsmuseet) is a museum dedicated to the history of the Royal Danish Navy. The displays include a collection of naval models which dates back to late 17th century. The museum is based in Søkvæsthuset, a former naval hospice which overlooks Christianshavn Canal.
During the period 1509–1814, when Denmark was in a union with Norway, the Danish Navy was part of the Dano-Norwegian Navy. Until the copenhagenization of the navy in 1801, and again in 1807, the navy was a major strategic influence in the European geographical area, but since then its size and influence has drastically declined with a change ...
The history of the Danish navy began with the founding of a joint Dano-Norwegian navy on 10 August 1510, when King John appointed his vassal Henrik Krummedige to become "chief captain and head of all our captains, men and servants whom we now have appointed and ordered to be at sea". [3] [4]
Arms Museum at Egholm Castle [1] Bornholm's Defence Museum [2] Danish War Museum; Defence and Garrison Museum; Denmark's Air Force Museum; Frøslev Prison Camp Museum; Hanstholm Fortress; History Centre Dybbøl Banke [3] Home Guard Museum, Frøslev [4] Livgardens Historiske Samling [5] Panzer & Artillery Museum [6] Panzermuseum East [7]
HDMS Sehested (P 547) is a Willemoes-class fast attack craft of the Royal Danish Navy which was in commission from 1978 until 2000. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a museum ship, part of the Royal Danish Naval Museum.
During the summer months of 1909, the yacht had an expedition in Danish waters, and from 11–23 July, a voyage to Russia, escorted by the cruiser Gejser, was held. [1] From 14–17 May 1912, the yacht was escorted by coastal defense ship called "Olfert Fischer" during the voyage to Travemünde to move the coffin of the King Frederik VIII , who ...
Royal Danish Naval Museum - List of Ships Archived 2012-12-31 at the Wayback Machine - Triton Royal Danish Naval Museum – Skibregister - Record card for Triton (1790) (in Danish) T. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard (1935) “Officerer i den dansk-norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den danske Søetat 1814-1932“.
The Danish ironclad Dannebrog was an armored frigate of the Royal Danish Navy that was originally built as an 80-gun ship-of-the-line by Andreas Schifter was launched in 1850 [1] [Note 1] but was reconstructed into a steam-powered ironclad in the early 1860s. She had an uneventful career before the ship was stricken from the navy list in 1875.