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PEDER SKRAM (1908-1943)
(In English: n/a)

Coast Defense Ship PEDER SKRAM

Coast Defense Ship PEDER SKRAM.
(Photo: Royal Danish Naval Museum)

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Classification

Type:

Coast Defense Ship (previously named Ironclad or Coastal Battleship)

Class:

HERLUF TROLLE Class

Other Ships
in Class:

HERLUF TROLLE
OLFERT FISCHER

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Specifications

Built by:

Royal Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen

Design:

Danish Admiralty Design

Laid down:

April 25, 1905

Launched:

May 2, 1908

Commissioned:

September 24, 1908

Decommissioned:

August 29, 1943

Pennant Number:

n/a

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

3,783 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

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87.4 m

15.7 m

5.0 m

Complement:

262 officers and men

Propulsion:

5,400 Hps

Range:

2,620 nautical miles at 9 knots

Armament:

2 x 24 cm Guns
4 x 15 cm Guns
10 x 75 mm Guns
2 x 37 mm Guns
1 x 45 cm Torpedo Tube (bow)
2 x 45 cm Torpedo Tubes (amidships) (2x1)
1 x 45 cm Torpedo Tube (aft)
2 x 90 cm Search Lights

1916:

2 x 75 mm Guns
replaced by:
2 x 75 mm Anti Aircraft Guns

1934:

2 x 75 mm Anti Aircraft Guns
replaced by:
4 x 8 mm Machineguns (2x2)
and:
4 x 20 mm Machineguns (2x2)

1939-1940:

4 x 20 mm Machineguns (2x2)
replaced by:
2 x 40 mm Machineguns

Speed:

16 knots

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History

Date:

Military Service:

1908

Sea trials in the Skagerrak

1910 and 1911

In Squadron

1911 - 1912

In Squadron (winter)

1912 and 1913

In the Training Squadron

1913 - 1914

Accommodation ship

April 15, 1914
- August 1, 1914

In the Training Squadron

August 1, 1914
- December 12, 1918

Joined the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces as the command ship of alternately the 1st Squadron in the Sound and the 2nd Squadron in the Great Belt

1919

Temporally decommissioned

1920 - 1921

Command Ship for the Submarine and the Torpedo Boat Flotilla to Southern Jutland and Gothenburg, Sweden

August 1921
- January 1922

Training exercises in the Bay of Koege, later command ship for the Training Flotilla

1922

Training ship for the Naval School of Cadets

1929

In Squadron with the NIELS IUEL as training ships for naval cadets

1932

Accommodation ship for the Apprentice School

August 1934
- September 1934

In Squadron

May 1935

Escort for the Royal Yacht DANNEBROG to Stockholm, Sweden

May 1939
- July 8, 1939

In Training Squadron with NIELS IUEL

September 1, 1939

Joined the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces together with NIELS IUEL, torpedo boats, submarines, mine ships and aircrafts at Aarhus, Jutland

April 13, 1940
- June 11, 1941

Temporally decommissioned at Horsens, Jutland; later returned to Holmen

1942

Temporally decommissioned at Holmen

1943

Temporally decommissioned at Holmen and acting as Command Ship for the Chief in Command of the Coastal Fleet

August 29, 1943

Scuttled by her own crew at Holmen, Copenhagen

1943

Raised by the Germans and towed to Kiel. Armed with anti aircraft guns joining the "Kriegsmarine", under the name ADLER, as a training and anti aircraft ship, anchored at Kiel, Germany

April 1945

Sunk during an allied air raid at Kiel

September 1945

Once again raised and towed to Copenhagen

April 1, 1949

Sold for scrapping

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Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

1911 - 1912

Captain Thomas V. Garde

1912 and 1913

Captain R. Bauditz

1914 - 1916

Captain C. V. Carstensen

1920 - 1921

Captain Henri L. E. Wenck

July 2, 1934
- September 19, 1934

Captain Paul Ipsen

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Notes

In 1922 PEDER SKRAM was experimentally equipped with an HM 1 seaplane

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Coast Defense ship PEDER SKRAM scuttled at the Naval Dock Yard

The Coast Defense Ship PEDER SKRAM scuttled at the Naval Dockyard 1943
(Photo: Royal Danish Naval Museum)

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Sources:

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Da Danmarks Flaade blev sænket, by F. H. Kjølsen, Commander s.g., H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen, 1945

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

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Vore Panserskibe 1863-1943, by R. Steen Steensen, Marinehistorisk Selskab, Copenhagen 1968

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography

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