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Hammer, Rørd R. J.

Personal Information

Full Name:

Rørd Regnar Johannes Hammer

Date of Birth:

February 25, 1855

Captain Rørd Hammer

Place of Birth:

Wyck on Føhr

Family
Relations:

Son of Captain Otto Christian Hammer and wife Henriette Jacobine

Marriage:

Married to Fanny Eleonora Hedemann

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Promotions

Date:

Promotion:

1871

Naval Cadet

August 18, 1875

Sub Lieutenant

September 13, 1876

Lieutenant

May 1, 1890

Commander

April 7, 1902

Captain

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Orders, Decorations & Distinctions

Date:

Orders, Decorations & Distinction:

February 28, 1894

Officer of the Order of the Dannebroge

February 3, 1904

Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebroge

January 21, 1910

Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge

February 25, 1914

Knight Commander of the Order of the Dannebroge

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Military Service

Date:

Military Service:

1875 - 1876

On the corvette DAGMAR to the Mediterranean

1879

Participated together with J. A. D. Jensen (Bildsøe) and Kornerup in the surveying and mapping of the West coast of Greenland, performing a survey of the Ice Fjord of Jakobshavn the following winter

1880

Continue the survey on the Western site of Discos on Greenland

1883

Surveying the coasts and fjords on the West coast of Greenland

1884 - 1887

In charge of the military surveying of the Danish Waters

1888

1st officer on the corvette DAGMAR, Training ship for Naval Cadets

1889 - 1893

In charge of surveying Danish waters

1894

On the ironclad TORDENSKJOLD, Squadron exercises

1895

Master of the Bark HVIDBJØRNEN to Greenland

1896

On the cruiser VALKYRIEN in Squadron

1897

Master of the schooner ABSALON, ice breaking in Danish waters

1898-1899

1stk officer at the Naval Academy

1898

Commanding Officer of the schooner ABSALON, training ship for naval cadets

1899-1902

Head of the 1st department of the National Chart Archive

1899, 1900 and 1901

CO of the schooner DIANA surveying Iceland and the Faeroe Islands

1902

CO of the cruiser HEKLA to Iceland

1903-1910

CO of the Naval Academy

1905, 1907 and 1909

CO of the cruiser GEJSER on Artillery and Torpedo School

1905 and 1906

CO of the ironclad SKJOLD in Squadron

1908

CO of the ironclad OLFERT FISCHER in Squadron

1910-1915

Naval General Master of Supplies

February 25, 1915

Discharged due to age, but temporary service as the Naval General Master of Supplies until September 16, 1915 (Danish Partly Mobilized Forces)

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Other Achievements

Date:

Achievement:

1887-1889

Chairman of "Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet"

1903-1911

Chairman of the teaching council for the Navy Schools

1910-1921

Chairman of the Greenland Society

1903-1917

Member of the board for the society "De danske Atlanterhavsøer" (Danish Islands in the Atlantic)

August 1915

Escorting the bodies of the 15 British submariners killed at Saltholm, after the British submarine E.13 ran aground

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From 1917

Deputy Chairman of the Danish Red Cross

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Additional Comments

& Author of Kaptainløjtnant O. C. Hammer, En Livsskildring,
    Copenhagen, 1928

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Death

Date:

Cemetery:

May 16, 1930

Died in Copenhagen, buried at the Holmens kirkegaard

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Sources:

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Det Danske Søofficerskorps 1801-1919, by Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen, Gyldendals Boghandel and Nordisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1919

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Officerer i den Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den Danske Søetat 1814-1932, Bind I og II, by Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil Marquard, H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen, 1935

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