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1st |
1919 |
Commander Victor Lorck is appointed the 1st Danish Naval Attaché at the Royal Danish Legation in London. |
5th |
1941 |
The Royal Danish Navy is constrained to hand
over 6 newer Torpedo Boats to the German Occupation Force. |
5th |
1970 |
The Minelayer LINDORMEN is stroked from the navy listing, thereby becoming the last steam driven vessel in the navy. |
7th |
1983 |
An
avalanche smash the able seamen's quarter at Naval Base GRØNNEDAL,
Greenland. |
11th |
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15th |
1965 |
The torpedo boats (FPB) SØLØVEN and SØRIDDEREN, first ships of the new SØLØVEN-class, a total of 6 boats, becomes the first naval ships driven by gas turbines. |
18th |
1829 |
Vice Admiral Johan Olfert Fischer dies. The Vice Admiral was the Squadron Commander and Supreme Commander at the Battle of Copenhagen April 2nd, 1801. |
21st |
2003 |
The submarine SÆLEN passes the Suez Canal thru the 21st and 22nd and becomes the first ever Danish submarine to pass the Canal. SÆLEN was enroute to the Persian Gulf, later joined by the corvette OLFERT FISCHER, as the Danish part of the coalition forces against Iraq. |
23rd |
1846 |
Lieutenant Commander Richard Aschlund, 1st officer of the corvette GALATHEA on its expedition circumnavigating the world, is ordered to leave the ship, and is temporarily appointed Commander of the Danish colony on the Nicobar Islands, where Dannebrog is raised over the harbor of Pulo Penang on the island of Lille Nicobar February 15, 1846. (The Nicobar Islands were acquired in i 1756.) |
26th |
1701 |
General-Lieutenant-Admiral U. C. Gyldenløve's recommendation for the
foundation of the "Søe-Cadet-Compagniet" (Naval Cadets Company) is approved
by King Frederik IVth. |
26th |
1951 |
The torpedo boat RAAGEN (former. T 59) is lost in the North sea after collision a the British MTB (MTB 5518). RAAGEN is salvaged later this year and repaired. |
26th |
1956 |
4 seamen dies during a rescue mission off Frederikshavn, Northern Jutland. Some buys had walked out on the ice off the coast, as the ice started to drift. Volunteers from the Navy start a rescue mission, and the buys are; but 4 of the sailors disappeared in the darkness. |
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