Danish ironclad Dannebrog
Career (Denmark) | |
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Name: | Dannebrog |
Namesake: | Dannebrog |
Builder: | Naval Dock Yard, Copenhagen |
Laid down: | April 28, 1848 |
Launched: | September 25, 1850 |
Commissioned: | May 17, 1853 |
Decommissioned: | February 2, 1875 |
Refit: | 21 May 1862–30 March 1864 |
Struck: | 30 May 1896 |
Fate: | Scrapped 1897 |
General characteristics (after reconstruction) | |
Type: | Armored frigate |
Displacement: | 3,057 tonnes (3,009 long tons) |
Length: | 65.5 m (214 ft 11 in) (p.p.) |
Beam: | 15.5 m (50 ft 10 in) |
Draft: | 7.1 m (23 ft) |
Installed power: | 1,150 ihp (860 kW) |
Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine |
Sail plan: | Barque-rigged |
Speed: | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement: | 350 |
Armament: | 6 × 60-pounder 150 Cnt. Guns (rifled) 8 × 24-pounder 62 Cnt. Guns (rifled) |
Armour: | Belt: 114 mm (4.5 in) Battery: 114 mm (4.5 in) |
The Danish ironclad Dannnebrog was an armored frigate of the Royal Danish Navy. She was built as a sailing ship of the line, but was reconstructed into an ironclad in the early 1860s.
References
- Balsved, Johnny E. "DANNEBROG (1853–1875)". Danish Naval History. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
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