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Data Sheet

Service

CO's

Photo Album

Crest

HEJMDAL (1895-1930)
(In English: n/a)

The Light Cruiser HEJMDAL

The Light Cruiser HEJMDAL leaving Copenhagen.
(Photo: Archives of the Royal Danish Naval Museum)

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Classification

Type:

Light Cruiser

Class:

HEKLA Class

Other Ships
in Class:

HEKLA
GEJSER

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Specifications

Built by:

Naval Dock Yard, Copenhagen

Design:

n/a

Laid down:

n/a

Launched:

August 30, 1894

Commissioned:

1895

Decommissioned:

October 22, 1930

Pennant Number:

n/a

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

1,342 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

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72.30 m

10.36 m

3.61 m

Complement:

156 officers and men

Propulsion:

3,000 Hps

Range:

1,800 nautical miles at 10 knots

Armament:

2 x 12 cm Guns
2 x 87 mm Guns
4 x 37 mm Guns
2 x 37 mm Machineguns
2 x 8 mm Machineguns
1 x 45 cm Bow Torpedo Tube
1 x 38 cm Stern Torpedo Tube
2 x 38 cm Torpedo Tubes

The 37 mm Guns/Machine Guns were 1909/1910 replaced by:

2 x 57 mm Guns
2 x 57 mm Anti Aircraft Guns

Speed:

17.0 knots

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Notes

None

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Sources:

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

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Vore krydsere, by R. Steen Steensen, Commander s.g., Marinehistorisk Selskab, Strubes forlag, 1971

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

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography

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