HDMS Dannebroge
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image=Backornament of Ship-of-the-line Dannebroge.jpg | Ship caption=Backornament of Dannebroge }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= Denmark | Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|Denmark|naval}} | Ship name= Dannebroge | Ship namesake= The Dannebrog flag | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= H SpanRoyal Danish Naval Museum - [http://www.orlogsbasen.dk/visskib.asp?skib=Dannebroge&la=1 Dannebroge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919172414/http://orlogsbasen.dk/visskib.asp?la=1&skib=Dannebroge |date=2021-09-19 }} | Ship original cost= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= 16 October 1692Skibregister - [https://web.archive.org/web/20060518143056/http://www.orlogsmuseet.dk/D/pages/DANNEBROGE(1692).htm Dannebroge (1692) record card] | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate=Exploded and sunk, 4 October 1710 | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship type= Ship of the line | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement= | Ship tons burthen= | Ship length= {{cvt|164|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam= {{cvt|12.95|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= {{cvt|5.25|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship armament=* In 1710:
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HDMS Dannebroge was a Dano-Norwegian ship-of-the-line that exploded and sank on 4 October 1710, during the Great Northern War. Almost all of its crew of 600 were killed - one third of the victims were Norwegians. Admiral Iver Huitfeldt was among the casualties.
Construction
File:Konstruktionstegning til Dannebroge med Christian 5.s approbation.jpg
Dannebroge was built in 1692 and she was the largest ship-of-the-line in the Dano-Norwegian navy at that time with her 84 cannons placed on two decks and a crew of 600 men.{{cite web |title=Linieskibet DANNEBROGE 1692-1710 |url=http://iverhuitfeldt.dk/default.aspx?pageId=69 |author=iverhuitfeldt.dk |language=da |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009094253/http://www.iverhuitfeldt.dk/default.aspx?pageId=69 |archivedate=2010-10-09 }} She was also the first ship in Denmark that was built according to a plan drawing.
Career
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In 1710 Denmark–Norway was at war with Sweden. The Norwegian-born commander, Ivar Huitfeldt, was in charge of Dannebroge on October 4, 1710. Along with a Dano-Norwegian fleet of 44 other ships he had set sail for Liepāja (in modern Latvia). The mission was to escort 6,000 Russian troops to the Danish capital of Copenhagen, so they could support Denmark–Norway during the Great Northern War against the Swedes.{{cite web |title=En søhelts blodige himmelfærd |url=http://www.milhist.dk/svenske_krigene/huitfelt/huitfelt.htm |author=Oliver Batchelor |language=da |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306011203/http://www.milhist.dk/svenske_krigene/huitfelt/huitfelt.htm |archivedate=2012-03-06 }}
However, the fleet was intercepted by a Swedish fleet in the Battle of Køge Bay. According to the commander in chief of the Dano-Norwegian navy, Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, the fire on Dannebroge was probably ignited by her own cannons. Gyldenløve mentions this in his letter to the king.{{cite web|title=Guldenlews raport til kongen |url=http://www.vragguiden.dk/wreck.asp?id=1477 |author=Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, Count of Samsø|language=da}} Gyldenløve followed the battle from his ship {{HDMS|Elephanten||2}} and wrote the letter at about 9 o'clock in the morning of October 5. It is unclear how many of the 600 men survived the explosion: some sources say three and others say nine.
Wreck and commemoration
File:Linjeskibet Dannebroge brænder under Slaget i Køge Bugt.jpg
Image:Langelinie 2005-02.jpg Promenade with the Dannebroge monument]]
Today Dannebroge is the only wreck within Danish sea territory, where it is forbidden to dive. The official Danish institution of cultural heritage, Kulturarvsstyrelsen, considers it to be a cemetery.{{cite web|title=Tyveri mod skibsvraget Dannebroge |url=http://www.kulturarv.dk/presse-nyt/nyhed/artikel/roeveri-mod-skibsvraget-dannebrog/ |author=Kulturarvsstyrelsen|language=da}}
Some cannons were salvaged in 1714; others were salvaged in 1875 by the company Svitzer, which also searched for other objects that could be sold at an auction. Some of the cannon were later used by Danish architect Vilhelm Dahlerup in his design of the Ivar Huitfeldt Monument at Langelinie in Copenhagen.
A {{Frac|1|40}} scale model of the ship was built by Orlogsmuseets Modelbyggerlaug ("The guild of model builders at the Naval Museum") in 2010. It was donated to the Royal Danish Navy in October 2010 as part of the celebrations of its 500 year Jubilee.
References
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Citations
- [http://www.orlogsmuseet.dk/ Royal Danish Naval Museum] - [https://web.archive.org/web/20051218113843/http://www.orlogsmuseet.dk/registrant.html Skibsregister] - Record cards
- Royal Danish Naval Museum – [http://www.orlogsbasen.dk/Skibdk.htm List of Ships] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231105643/http://www.orlogsbasen.dk/Skibdk.htm |date=2012-12-31 }}
External links
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Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy