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The Royal Danish Navy is the sea-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish territorial waters. Other tasks include surveillance, search and rescue, icebreaking, oil spill recovery and prevention as well as contributions to international tasks and forces.
Several ships of the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy (1509–1814) and the Royal Danish Navy have borne the name Najaden after the mythological water spirit, including:
HDMS Peder Skram (F352) was a Peder Skram-class frigate in the Royal Danish Navy which was in use until 1990. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a privately operated museum ship along with the ships of the Royal Danish Naval Museum. The ship is named after Peder Skram, a 16th-century Danish admiral.
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 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. The ship was converted into an accommodation ship that same year and served until she became a target ship in 1896. Dannebrog was broken up in 1897.
Three ships of the Royal Danish Navy have borne the name HDMS Lougen. The name "Lougen" is derived from the river Laagen in Norway.
Lossen was a frigate built for the navy of Denmark–Norway at Isegran, Fredrikstad, Norway, and launched in 1684.
Four ships of the Danish Royal Navy have borne the name HDMS Niels Juel:
The Battle of Isefjord was a clash that occurred when the coastal defence ship HDMS Niels Juel was attacked by German forces as she tried to escape to neutral Sweden.
The following ships of the Royal Danish Navy have borne the name HDMS Diana:
HDMS Bellona was a frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, which she served from 1835 to 1862.
At least eight ships of the Royal Danish Navy have borne the name HDMS Havfruen: between 1563 and 1961. Included in these are
The following ships of the Royal Danish Navy have borne the name HDMS Bellona:
A number of ships of the Royal Danish Navy have carried the name Elefanten, or Elephanten. The modern translation of the English word "Elephant" in Danish-English dictionaries is "Elefant". The suffix -en is the definite article in Danish.
Laurent Barbé was a French shipbuilder born about 1696. He came to the attention of Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe, when in 1739 the newly formed Danish Naval Construction Commission was seeking a replacement chief designer and shipbuilder. Barbé enjoyed Danneskiold's patronage and protection for some six years but fell out of favour when Danneskiold retired from the Construction Commission.
Henrik Gerner (1742–1787) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in shipbuilding and naval architecture. His interests as an entrepreneurial engineer led to unsinkable gun platforms, horse-driven dredging machines, and desalination equipment for Orient-bound trading ships.
HDMS Ingolf has been used as a name for three ships of the Royal Danish Navy:
HDMS Ørnen (1694) was a frigate in the Royal Danish Navy active during the Great Northern War
A number of vessels of the Royal Danish Navy have borne the name Peter Willemoes, after Peter Willemoes.
A number of vessels of the Royal Danish Navy have borne the name Iver Huitfeldt or Iver Hvitfeldt, after Iver Huitfeldt.
References
- ↑ "Danish Naval History". www.navalhistory.dk. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ↑ Danish Naval Museum - Skibregister
- ↑ Danish Naval Museum website - List of Ships Archived 2012-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
