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1st |
1644 |
The Battle at
Kolberger Heide |
1st |
1677 |
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4th |
1811 |
27 gunboats, commanded by Lieutenant Jørgen C. de Falsen attacks 4 British ships-of-the-line, 2 frigates and 2 brigs, including a large convoy, off the island of Hjelm. 4 gunboats are lost, while 1 British frigate and 17 merchant men are heavily damaged, but manage to escape. |
5th |
1990 |
The frigates PEDER SKRAM and HERLUF TROLLE are decommissioned, thereby (temporally?) marking the end of more than 100 years of the frigate era of the Royal Danish Navy. |
6th |
1812 |
The Battle at Lyngør |
6th |
1849 |
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8th |
1980 |
An East German Mine Sweeper of the KONDOR-Class rams the Danish Home Guard Cutter MHV 94 just south of Gedser. 44Read the complete story here |
16th |
1788 |
A Royal Proclamation decides that the Orlogsflaget (Naval Ensign) shall fly from the battery Christianus Sextus, as the Sovereign flag at the Copenhagen Salute Station. (Since October 1, 1784 the Sovereign Flag had been flying from the Citadel). 44Read more of the Sovereign Flag |
19th |
1810 |
Squadron of 6 brigs departing from Norway, commanded by Commander Johannes Krieger conquers a British convoy of 47 merchant ships in the Skagerak. |
19th |
1864 |
The gunboats of the Gun Boat Flotilla at the Vesterhavsøerne, (The North Sea islands) under Lieutenant Commander O. C. Hammer, is burned and scuttled by own crews, just before the Vesterhavsøerne are occupied by the Austrian-Prussian's as the last Danish defense area in Southern Jutland. |
21st |
1850 |
The
paddle steamer HEKLA, Commander Edouard Suensson, opens fire at a
Schleswig-Holstein gun boat in the Bay of Neustadt. |
23rd |
1994 |
The Naval Cutter VEJRØ is rammed by a container vessel in the Fehmern Sound. Several crew members suffer light injuries, the ship is however seriously damaged. 44Read the complete story here |
31st |
1914 |
The Danish partly mobilized forces are formed, and the Navy is equipped for war time up til the break out of the 1st World War. Vice Admiral O. J. Kofoed-Hansen is Chief-in-Command of the Naval Supreme Command. |
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