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Johnny E. Balsved

On Thursday, February 12, 2009, the command and support ship ABSALON was transferred to the US lead Combined Task Force 151 (TF151). This album shows boarding exercise and line ups.

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This photo album shows how the LCP meets its docking area on the offshore patrol vessel EJNAR MIKKELSEN in calm sea in the port of Copenhagen.

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Russian Naval Infantry landed at Zealand's Point. Wednesday, June 16, a joint force of Russian marines and British commandos took part in an exercise evacuating 65 Danish civilians.

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Tuesday, April 15, at 1745 the Command and Support Ship HDMS ABSALON for the first time launched an ESSM (Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile).  All aspects of the live firing evolved according to plan.

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The guided missile vessel RAVNEN has ended its deployment with the multi national naval force, UNIFIL, off the coast of Lebanon. To spare both ship and crew it was decided to bring the ship back home on board the German heavy lift carrier CONDOCK I.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007, the guided missile vessel VIBEN made a brief call to Beirut in Lebanon. The Danish vessel was called in, to pick up the German commander of the multinational naval force, UNIFIL, operating off the coast of Lebanon.

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On November 7, a Royal Danish Super Lynx Mk 90B conducted the first ever helicopter deck landing on the first-of-class Swedish corvette VISBY inside the Naval Base in Frederikshavn.

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The remains of the Danish born mother of Russia's last tsar was sailed on board the ESBERN SNARE from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg, exactly 140 years after she first arrived in Russia.

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Mid September it was scheduled to have the Merlin Joint Supporter make its first landing on the command and support ship ESBERN SNARE. The ship was visiting Aarhus at the time of the event.

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Friday August 11, 2006, at precisely 18:45 hours, VÆDDEREN, the offshore patrol frigate now temporary refitted as an expeditionary vessel, departed Copenhagen and began 8 months of circumnavigating the world.

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During survey operations in the Arsuk Fjord in Greenland, the surveying vessel SKA 11 ran aground on a sunken rock, and was lost a few days later during the following salvage operation.

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The Naval Material Command and the Odense Steel Shipyard are working on the design and production planning of three new frigate sized patrol ships.

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The offshore patrol frigate VÆDDEREN will be the floating base for a number of Danish and foreign scientists and researchers when the third Galathea Expedition are planned to take place from August 2006 thru April 2007.

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During the fall of 2005 the newly built and largest Danish naval vessels, the command and support ships ABSALON and ESBERN SNARE were joined for the first time in a combined exercise.

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After exactly one year in international operations in the Mediterranean and in operation Iraqi Freedom in the Arabian Gulf, the submarine SÆLEN was lifted back to Denmark on board the heavy lift carrier GRIETJE.

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From around 2000 several navy ships were equipped with new fixed mounted twin launchers for Stinger missiles. This album shows the training, preparations and test launch of Stinger missiles from the corvette NIELS JUEL and a FALSTER Class minelayer.

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The Royal Danish Navy's corvette OLFERT FISCHER (F355) went in for a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the mighty battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB64) in the Persian Gulf on November 24, 1990.

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In 1979 the frigate HERLUF TROLLE had also been refitted and rearmed, and this album shows the first preparing and test launching of a Sea Sparrow Surface-to-Air-Missile (SAM).

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On September 21 the SPÆKHUGGEREN had finished its overhaul and should be refloated, but due to some serious malfunctions, the submarine capsized in the floating dock causing severe material damage.

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The frigate HERLUF TROLLE was the first of the two frigates of the PEDER SKRAM Class to be refitted in 1976-77 and armed with Harpoon SSM's and SeaSparrow SAM's.

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The German Kriegsmarine had during the 2nd World War established new landbased torpedo stations at Korsør and Helsingør. These pictures shows the station at Helsingør, just close to the Kronborg (Elsinore) Castle in the northern part of the Sound.

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In 1925 it was decided to expand the Naval Air Service with a section of modern land based fighters, and 3 planes were purchased in England, and based at Kastrup airfield (today, i.e. Copenhagen Airport).

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