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GRØNSUND (1883-1950)
(In English: n/a)

Gun Boat GRØNSUND

Classification

Type:

Gunboat (later Repair Ship and Tender)

Class:

n/a

Other Ships
in Class:

n/a

Specifications

Built by:

Royal Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen

Design:

Danish Admiralty design

Laid down:

n/a

Launched:

April 18, 1883

Commissioned:

1883

Decommissioned:

July 5, 1950

Pennant Number:

n/a

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

247 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

36.28 m

6.12 m

2.48 m

Complement:

49 men

Propulsion:

400 Hp

Range:

n/a

Armament:

2 x 12 cm Guns
2 x Machine Guns

Later:

2 x 57 mm Guns

1 x 40 cm Search Light

Speed:

11.6 knots

History

Date:

Military Service:

1883

Sea trials, later joining the Squadron

1884

Fishery Inspections in the Skagerak

1886-1891

On Surveying

1887

In the fall also Training Ship for Naval Cadets

From 1893

Fishery Inspections in the North Sea and the Skagerak

1895, 1898 and 1901

Also joining the Squadron exercises

1909

Surveying the waters around the Danish island of Møn

1914

Temporary decommissioned

August 1914

Joined the 2nd Supplementing Forces of the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces

1917

Converted to Repair Ship and Tender. GRØNSUND was equipped with diesel electric engines, and became the first ship in the world driven by diesel electric engines

July 20, 1917

Commissioned as a tender

1928

Tender with no machinery for the Torpedo Boat Division

June 1941

Planned to be, but not decommissioned,

1942

Renamed VARMEBÅD 1

August 29, 1943

Taken over by the Germans

May 1945

Found in Kalundborg and rejoined the Navy as a tender for the mine sweepers stationed in Kalundborg

July 5, 1950

Decommissioned

October 14, 1950

Sold to H. J. Hansen, Odense for scrap

Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

 -

n/a

Notes

None

Sources:

&

Flådens skibe og fartøjer 1945-1995, by Gunnar Olsen and Svenn Storgaard, Marinehistoriske skrifter,  Copenhagen 1998 (ISBN 87-87720-13-2)

&

Oplysninger vedrørende den danske flaades skibe i sidste aarhundrede, by etatsråd H. Degenkolv, Copenhagen, 1906.

&

Vore orlogsskibe fra halvfemserne til nu, by Kay Larsen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1932

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography