GULDBORGSUND (1885-1922)

Gunboat GULDBORGSUND

Gunboat GULDBORGSUND
(Photo: Royal Danish Naval Museum)

Classification
Type:	Gunboat
Class:	n/a
Other Ships in Class:	n/a

Specifications
Built by:	The Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen
Design:	n/a
Laid down:	n/a
Launched:	August 30, 1884
Commissioned:	1885
Decommissioned:	December 7, 1922
Pennant Number:	n/a
Int'l Call Sign:	n/a
Displacement:	268 tons
Dimensions:	Length:	Beam:	Draught:
-	36.28 m	6.12 m	2.43 m
Complement:	46 men
Propulsion:	400 Hp
Range:	n/a
Armament:	2 ea 47 mm Guns 1 ea 40 cm Search Light
Speed:	11.6 knots

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History
Date:	Military Service:
March 16, 1885 - August 2, 1885	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
August 27, 1885 - October 31, 1885	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
April 1, 1886 - August 31, 1886	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
August 31, 1886 - October 14, 1886	On Squadron exercises
October 14, 1886 - November 29, 1886	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
March 18, 1887 - August 1, 1887	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
August 1, 1887 - September 30, 1887	On Squadron exercises
September 30, 1887 - November 17, 1887	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
April 9, 1888 - Juli 16, 1888	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
July 16, 1888 - September 12, 1888	On Squadron exercises
September 12, 1888 - November 22, 1888	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
March 21, 1889 - November 5, 1889	Fishery Protection outside Skagen - in August-September the gunboat was at disposal in Copenhagen during the Squadron's exercises
March 17, 1890 - November 3, 1890	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
March 14, 1891 - Juli 28, 1891	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
July 28, 1891 - September 8, 1891	On Squadron exercises
September 8, 1891 - November 9, 1891	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
March 12, 1892 - November 11, 1892	Fishery Protection outside Skagen
March 15, 1897 - November 13, 1897	Fishery Protection inbound Skagen
March 15, 1898 - January 9, 1899	Fishery Protection inbound Skagen
January 25, 1899 - September 15, 1900	Fishery Protection off the Faeroe Islands
November 19, 1900 - August 14, 1903	Fishery Protection inbound Skagen
December 1, 1903 - March 11, 1905	Fishery Protection inbound Skagen
March 16, 1905 - July 27, 1905	Fishery Protection inbound Skagen
October 5, 1905 - November 18, 1905	Fishery Protection inbound Skagen
1907	Major overhaul
1909	Fishery Protection outside Skagen, visiting Hull, England
1910	Fishery Protection outside Skagen, visiting Antwerp, Belgium and Amsterdam, Holland
1911	Fishery Protection outside Skagen, visiting Bremen and Hamburg, Germany
August 2, 1914 - January 20, 1919	Joined the Danish partly mobilized forces as a district command ship of the Defense Squadron off Copenhagen
1920	Based in Sønderborg, at the disposal of the Border Commission
1921	Fishery Protection
December 7, 1922	Decommissioned and sold

Commanders
Date:	Commanding Officer:
1885-1886	Commander S. Bojesen
1887-1888	Commander O. V. Suenson
1889-1890	Commander F. C. Mygind
1891-1892	Commander A. C. de Fine Skibsted
1897-1899	Lieutenant V. C. A. Jøhnke
1899 - April 23, 1900	Commander E. A. C. Jensen
April 23, 1900 -	Commander C. G. Schack
November 19, 1900 - March 14, 1901	Commander H. Konow
March 14, 1901 - March 20, 1903	Lieutenant C. L. Nielsen (Commander from September 26, 1901)
March 20, 1903 - March 11, 1905	Commander P. C. Bundesen
March 16, 1905 - November 18, 1905	Commander H. G. C. Amundsen
1916	Commander Hermann Ewald
1920	Commander Oscar Pade

Notes

None

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Sources:
&	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
&	Oplysninger vedrørende den danske flaades skibe i sidste aarhundrede, by etatsråd H. Degenkolv, Copenhagen, 1906.
&	Vore orlogsskibe fra halvfemserne til nu, by Kay Larsen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1932
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