Danish ironclad Dannebrog

Career (Denmark)
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.


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