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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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