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Johnny E. Balsved

OLFERT FISCHER (1903-1936)
(In English: n/a)

Coast Defense Ship OLFERT FISCHER
(Photo: Royal Danish Naval Museum)

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Classification

Type:

Coast Defense Ship (previously named Ironclad or Coastal Battleship)

Class:

HERLUF TROLLE Class

Other Ships
in Class:

HERLUF TROLLE
PEDER SKRAM

Specifications

Built by:

Royal Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen

Design:

Danish Admiralty Design

Laid down:

October 20, 1900

Launched:

May 9, 1903

Commissioned:

May 31, 1905

Decommissioned:

October 17, 1936

Pennant Number:

n/a

Int'l Call Sign:

n/a

Displacement:

3,700 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

82.86 m

15.38 m

5.09 m

Complement:

256 officers and men

Propulsion:

4,500 Hps

Range:

2,500 nautical miles at 9 knots

Armament:

2 x 24 cm Guns
4 x 15 cm Guns
10 x 57 mm Guns
8 x 37 mm Guns
1 x Torpedo Tube (in the bow)
2 x Torpedo Tubes (amidships) (2x1)
2 x 90 cm Search Lights
2 x 75 cm Search Lights

From around 1905, further:

6 x 47 mm Guns

From 1910:

The 47 mm guns are replaced by:
2 x 57 mm Guns

From 1916:
10 x 57 mm Guns are replaced by:
6 x 75 mm Guns

Speed:

15.8 knots

History

Date:

Military Service:

1905

In the Squadron, Command Ship. In November escorting the Royal Yacht DANNEBROG to Norway

1906

in the Squadron

1907 and 1908

In the spring training and barrack ship, later on in the Squadron

1909

In the Squadron, Command Ship

1910

In the Squadron

1911

Training ship for the Torpedo and Artillery Schools, later on in the Squadron

1912

In the Squadron

September 24, 1912
- April 12, 1913

In the Winter Squadron

1913

In the Squadron

August 2, 1914
- November 27, 1918

In the Danish partly mobilized forces as a Command Ship for, alternately, the 1st Squadron in the Sound and the 2nd Squadron in the Great Belt

1920

In the Training Squadron

1922

In the Squadron, from August 30 Command Ship for the Ships Division

1923

In the Ships Division

1924

In the Ships Division, but was not on tour

1926

Training in Danish waters, in the fall Command Ship for the Training Squadron

1928

Artillery training and finally in the Training Squadron

1930

Transferred to the Naval Reserve

1933

Artillery training and finally in the Training Squadron

October 5, 1936
- October 17, 1936

Used as a sailing target for airplanes practicing bombardments

Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

1905

Captain A. P. Hovgaard

1908

Captain Rørd Hammer

1909-1910

Captain O. J. Kofoed-Hansen

1911

Captain Anton F. M. Evers

1912

Captain Thomas V. Garde

1912-1913

Captain Anton F. M. Evers

1913

Captain J. Nyholm

1917

Captain Th. A. Topsøe-Jensen

1920

Captain C. G. Bastrup

August 1, 1923
- October 22,  1923

Commander, baron Niels Juel-Brockdorff

Notes

In 1922, OLFERT FISCHER and her sister ship PEDER SKRAM was experimentally equipped with an HM 1 seaplane.

These trials appeared to be unsuccessful, as no more experiments were performed.

More Photos

The Coast Defense Ship OLFERT FISCHER refitted ad equipped as a target ship,
testing early air bombardments, late 1936.
(Photo: Royal Danish Naval Museum)

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

&

Vore orlogsskibe fra halvfemserne til nu, by Kay Larsen, Nyt Nordisk Forlag/Arnold Busck, 1932

&

Vore Panserskibe 1863-1943, by R. Steen Steensen, Marinehistorisk Selskab, Copenhagen 1968

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography