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Time Line - February

Danish Naval Historical Time Line

Events marked with a indicates, that the day is also a Danish National or Military Flag Flying Day.

 February

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.
As the Torpedo Boats leave the Naval Dock in Copenhagen, Kong Christian Xth order the Sovereign Flag at the Naval base lowered to half mast.

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.
3 able semen are killed and another 6 injured.

11th

1659

The Assault on Copenhagen
- The Boatswain Companies, commanded by Admiral Niels Juel, are defending the Peuchlers and Qvitzows bastions at Østervold and the Citadel.

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.
(From 1753 named "Kadetkorpset" (Corps of Naval Cadets)).

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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