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ABSALON (2004- )
(In English: n/a)

Command and Support Ship ABSALON

ABSALON during the final stage of completion in Korsoer, July 2007.
(Photo: Johnny E. Balsved)

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Classification

Type:

Command and Support Ship

Class:

ABSALON Class

Other Ships
in Class:

L17 ESBERN SNARE

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Specifications

Built by:

Odense Staalskibsværft, Lindø

Design:

Naval Material Command, Denmark in cooperation with Odense Staalskibsværft, Lindø

Laid down:

November 28, 2003 (Production start: April 30, 2003)

Launched:

February 25, 2004

Commissioned:

October 19, 2004

Decommissioned:

In active service

Pennant Number:

L16

Int'l Call Sign:

OUFA

Displacement:

6,300 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

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(LOA) 137.60 m
(LWL) n/a

19.5 m

6.3 m

Complement:

100 men, cabins for 169 men.
Total lodging capacity up til 300 men.

Propulsion:

2 ea MTU 8000 M70 engines at 8.200 kW each
2 ea Propellers
1 ea Bow thruster (15 tons pressure)

Range:

9,000 nautical miles

Armament:

1 ea 127 mm Gun Mk M/02 LvSa (5” Mk 45 Mod 4)

From 2005:

16 ea Harpoon SSM (2x8)
3 ea
Sea Sparrow SAM VLS Mk. 48 Launcher (3x6)
4 ea
Stinger Lv M/93 (2x2)
7 ea 12.7 mm Heavy Machine Gun M/01 LvSa

From 2007, also:

2 ea 35 mm CIWS Mk M/04 LvSa (2x1)
4 ea SEAGNAT/SBROC Mk. 36 (4x6)
2 ea Torpedolauncher Mk. 32 Mod. 14 (2x2) for Anti Submarine Torpedoes MU-90 M/04

Additional space for:

2 ea Landing Crafts of the LCP Class
2 ea Agusta-Westland EH-101 Helicopters
? ea Mines

Speed:

23 knots (service speed)

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History

Date:

Military Service:

October 19, 2004

Commissioned

January 10, 2005

Operative status (Not completely outfitted)

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Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

October 20, 2004
- September 10, 2007

Commander s.g. P. Starklint

September 10, 2007
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Commander s.g. F. Trojahn

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Notes

The command & support ships can perform a number of national and inter-national task, including transportation of personal and material, command platform for land, air and sea operations. The ship also has a mine laying capacity. It also has the capacity to carry out humanitarian operations as a hospital ship.

The ship is fitted with a 900 square meter flexible deck to perform in different operations and has a roll-on-roll-off (RO/RO) capacity aft.

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Command and Support Ship ABSALON

ABSALON during the final stage of completion in Korsoer, July 2007.
(Photo: Johnny E. Balsved)

The Command and Support Ship ABSALON

L16 ABSALON seen here during sea trials in the spring of 2006.
(Photo: Royal Danish Navy)

The propellers and shafts are mounted just before the naming ceremony.
(Photo: Forsvarets TV og Mediecenter)

The helicopter platform aft and the two helicopter hangars are here seen just after the launching. The ship can accommodate two of the newly acquired EH-101 Augusta-Westland helicopters.
(Photo: Royal Danish Navy)

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Sources:

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Forsvarets TV og Mediecenter - Danish Defence Television and News Center

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Søværnets Materielkommando (Naval Material Command), Copenhagen and Søværnets operative Kommando, (Admiral Danish Fleet), Aarhus.

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography

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