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Specifications |
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Built by: |
Royal Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen |
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Design: |
Danish Admiralty Design |
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Laid down: |
April 25, 1905 |
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Launched: |
May 2, 1908 |
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Commissioned: |
September 24, 1908 |
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Decommissioned: |
August 29, 1943 |
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Pennant Number: |
n/a |
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Int'l Call Sign: |
n/a |
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Displacement: |
3,783 tons |
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Dimensions: |
Length: |
Beam: |
Draught: |
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87.4 m |
15.7 m |
5.0
m |
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Complement: |
262 officers and men |
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Propulsion: |
5,400 Hps |
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Range: |
2,620 nautical miles at 9 knots |
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Armament: |
2 x 24 cm Guns
4 x 15 cm Guns
10 x 75 mm Guns
2 x 37 mm Guns
1 x 45 cm Torpedo Tube (bow)
2 x 45 cm Torpedo Tubes (amidships) (2x1)
1 x 45 cm Torpedo Tube (aft)
2 x 90 cm Search Lights
1916:
2 x 75 mm Guns
replaced by:
2 x 75 mm Anti Aircraft Guns
1934:
2 x 75 mm Anti Aircraft Guns
replaced by:
4 x 8 mm Machineguns (2x2)
and:
4 x 20 mm Machineguns (2x2)
1939-1940:
4 x 20 mm Machineguns (2x2)
replaced by:
2 x 40 mm Machineguns |
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Speed: |
16 knots |
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History |
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Date: |
Military
Service: |
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1908 |
Sea
trials in the Skagerrak |
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1910 and 1911 |
In
Squadron |
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1911 - 1912 |
In
Squadron (winter) |
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1912 and 1913 |
In
the Training Squadron |
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1913 - 1914 |
Accommodation ship |
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April 15, 1914
- August 1, 1914 |
In
the Training Squadron |
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August 1, 1914
- December 12, 1918 |
Joined the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces as the command ship of alternately
the 1st Squadron in the Sound and the 2nd Squadron in the Great Belt |
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1919 |
Temporally decommissioned |
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1920 - 1921 |
Command Ship for the Submarine and the Torpedo Boat Flotilla to Southern
Jutland and Gothenburg, Sweden |
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August
1921
- January 1922 |
Training exercises in the Bay of Koege, later command ship for the Training
Flotilla |
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1922 |
Training ship for the Naval School of Cadets |
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1929 |
In
Squadron with the
NIELS
IUEL as training ships for naval cadets |
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1932 |
Accommodation ship for the Apprentice School |
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August 1934
- September 1934 |
In
Squadron |
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May
1935 |
Escort for the Royal Yacht DANNEBROG to Stockholm, Sweden |
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May
1939
- July 8, 1939 |
In
Training Squadron with
NIELS
IUEL |
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September 1, 1939 |
Joined the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces together with
NIELS
IUEL,
torpedo boats, submarines, mine ships and aircrafts at Aarhus, Jutland |
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April 13, 1940
- June 11, 1941 |
Temporally decommissioned at Horsens, Jutland; later returned to Holmen |
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1942 |
Temporally decommissioned at Holmen |
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1943 |
Temporally decommissioned at Holmen and acting as Command Ship for the Chief
in Command of the Coastal Fleet |
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August 29, 1943 |
Scuttled by her own crew at Holmen, Copenhagen |
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1943 |
Raised by the Germans and towed to Kiel. Armed with anti aircraft guns
joining the "Kriegsmarine", under the name ADLER, as a training and
anti aircraft ship, anchored at Kiel, Germany |
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April 1945 |
Sunk during an allied air raid at Kiel |
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September 1945 |
Once again raised and towed to Copenhagen |
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April 1, 1949 |
Sold for scrapping |
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Notes |
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In
1922 PEDER SKRAM was experimentally equipped with an HM 1
seaplane |
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Sources: |
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Da Danmarks Flaade blev sænket,
by F. H. Kjølsen, Commander s.g.,
H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen, 1945 |
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Officerer i den
Dansk-Norske Søetat 1660-1814 og den Danske Søetat 1814-1932, Bind I og II,
by
Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen og Emil
Marquard,
H. Hagerups Forlag, Copenhagen,
1935 |
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Vore orlogsskibe fra halvfemserne til nu, by Kay Larsen,
Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1932 |
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Vore Panserskibe 1863-1943, by R. Steen Steensen, Marinehistorisk Selskab,
Copenhagen 1968 |
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44You
are also referred to the
Naval Bibliography |
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