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.
7-441: Dannebrog was 214 feet 10 inches (65.5 m) long between perpendiculars , had a beam of 50 feet 10 inches (15.5 m) and a draft of 23 feet 3 inches (7.1 m). The ship displaced 3,057 long tons (3,106 t). She had a single steam engine that drove her propeller. The engine, built by Baumgarten & Burmeister , produced a total of 1,150 indicated horsepower (860 kW) which gave
14-415: The adjacent isle of Frederiksholm. Length between perpendiculars Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p , p.p. , pp , LPP , LBP or Length BPP ) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem , or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the sternpost , or main stern perpendicular member. When there is no sternpost,
21-452: The centerline axis of the rudder stock is used as the aft end of the length between perpendiculars. Measuring to the stern post or rudder stock was believed to give a reasonable idea of the ship’s carrying capacity, as it excluded the small, often unusable volume contained in its overhanging ends. On some types of vessels this is, for all practical purposes, a waterline measurement. In a ship with raked stems, naturally that length changes as
28-580: The ship a speed of 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph). For long-distance travel, Dannebrog retained her three masts and was barque rigged. Her crew numbered 350 officers and crewmen. Sources disagree about the ship's armament; naval historians Paul Silverstone and Robert Gardiner say that she had sixteen 60-pounder guns, but Johnny E. Balsved shows her with a dozen 60-pounder, 88-cwt., guns, two 60-pounder, 150-cwt. guns, and three 18-pounder guns immediately after her conversion. All of these were rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns. Balsved then shows that she
35-512: The ship was stricken from the Navy List on 15 February 1875. The ship was converted into an accommodation ship that same year and served until she became a target ship on 30 May 1896. Dannebrog was broken up in 1897. The figurehead of HDMS Dannebrog is now on display at the entrance to Marinestation København on Nyholm in Copenhagen. It has previously been on display in another location on
42-527: Was built by the Royal shipyard in Copenhagen as a 72-gun sail ship of the line. She was laid down on 28 April 1848, launched on 25 September 1850, and commissioned on 17 May 1856. The ship began conversion into an armored frigate on 21 May 1862 and the conversion was completed on 30 March 1864. On 14 July 1864, she ran aground off Aarhus . She was refloated the next day. Dannebrog had an uneventful career before
49-464: Was rearmed with six 60-pounder, 150-cwt. and eight 24-pounder guns, all RMLs, after 1865 while Silverstone gives her a later armament of six 8-inch (203 mm) and ten 6-inch (152 mm) RML guns. Dannebrog had a wrought-iron waterline armor belt 4.5 inches (110 mm) thick and her battery was protected by armor plates of the same thickness. Dannebrog , named after the Danish national flag ,
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