Danish ironclad Tordenskjold


Tordenskjold
Career
Name: HDMS Tordenskjold
Namesake: Vice Admiral Peter Tordenskjold
Builder: Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen
Laid down: 5 June 1879
Launched: 30 September 1880
Commissioned: 29 September 1882
Decommissioned: 14 May 1908
Fate: Scrapped 1908 at Stettin
General characteristics
Type: Barbette ironclad
Displacement: 2,534 tonnes (2,494 long tons)
Length: 67.79 m (222 ft 5 in)
Beam: 13.23 m (43 ft 5 in)
Draft: 4.81 m (15.8 ft)
Installed power: 2,600 ihp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 Compound steam engines
8 cylindrical boilers
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range: 1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement: 220
Armament: 1 × 355 mm (14 in) gun
4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
4 × 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss guns
1 × 380 mm (15.0 in) torpedo tube (bow)
3 × 350 mm (13.8 in) torpedo tubes
Armour: Barbette: 203 mm (8.0 in)
Conning tower: 31 mm (1.2 in)
Deck: 95 mm (3.7 in)

The Danish ironclad Tordenskjold was a coast defence barbette ironclad named for the Peter Tordenskjold, victor in the Battle of Dynekilen during the Great Northern War in 1716.

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