Iver Hvitfeldt (ship)
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.jpg) The Iver Hvitfeldt 1887 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Coastal armored ship |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | April 9, 1884 |
| Launch | April 14, 1886 |
| Namesake | Iver Hvitfeldt |
| Commissioning | June 1, 1887 |
| Whereabouts | Sold for demolition on February 26, 1919 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
3,478 t |
| length |
74.0 m over everything |
| width |
15.1 m |
| Draft |
5.8 m |
| crew |
277-300 men |
| drive |
6 Thornycroft boilers , |
| speed |
15.1 kn |
| Range |
1600 nm at 9 kn |
| Armament |
2 × 26 cm L / 35 Krupp cannons |
| Fuel supply |
265 tons of coal |
| Armored deck |
54 to 240 mm |
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Armament 1906 |
2 × 26 cm L / 35 Krupp cannons, |
The Iver Hvitfeldt was a Danish coastal armored ship . It was named after the Norwegian-Danish admiral Iver Hvitfeldt (1665-1710).
The ship followed the international trend with a turret at the front and rear. The efforts of the Danish Navy to get more ships of this type failed. Their were only the small cruiser of Hekla class approved. It was only with the three ships of the Herluf Trolle class that the navy received the homogeneous defense fleet that had been required for years between 1899 and 1908.
Building history
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The Iver Hvitfeldt had the composite armor customary at the time. The central part was comprehensively protected according to the system of the citadel armor at the time; the ends had only a simple arched armored deck. The 26 cm guns were supplied by the German company Krupp , had an improved range of 9,500 m and could fire every 4 minutes. Compared to the previous Tordenskjold with its 35.5 cm cannon (9000 m / one shot every 10 minutes), it was able to shoot further and faster. The 12 cm guns, also supplied by Krupp, were set up in swallow nests in order to have the largest possible fire area.
The Iver Hvitfeldt was like the Tordenskjold two small torpedo boats carry made by Thornycroft as no. 8 and 9 were delivered. Thornycroft had already delivered two boats with the numbers 6 and 7 for the ironclad Helgoland in 1884 . The Iver Huitfeldt carried her torpedo boats from 1890 to 1894; thereafter, the 16 t boats with a length of 20.5 m were used independently as 2nd class torpedo boats until 1916.
Mission history
Iver Hvitfeldt , launched in April 1884 , came into service every three years for about four months and then carried out independent trips and exercises in the squadron. Their first commissioning took place on June 1, 1887 for four months.
The next commissioning took place in 1890 and 1893. In the autumn of 1893 she carried out a training trip with the small protected cruisers Valkyrien and Gejser and four torpedo boats. On June 6, 1896, the ironclad was put back into service and then ran from July 13 with the Valkyrien to England to Denmark at the wedding of Prince Carl (1872-1957) with the British Princess Maud (1869-1938), the later the first royal couple of Norway, which was again independent from 1905, to represent. The trip was followed by the usual exercises. The next active phase of Iver Hvitfeldt followed in 1899.
On December 18, 1903, a fire broke out on board the ship while it was laid up in the Holmen naval station in Copenhagen. There was significant property damage, but no people were harmed. The damage could be repaired again during the winter and in the summer of 1904 the ship was activated again. The last time the ship was used for fleet service was in 1907.
The defense plan of 1909 stipulated that the Iver Hvitfeldt should only serve the defense of Copenhagen. During the First World War , in which almost all ships in the Danish Navy were active to ensure neutrality, the Iver Hvitfeldt remained in the Orlogsværftet as a material reserve and gave its automatic fire weapons to other ships in the Navy. In 1918 she became a barracks ship , but was sold for demolition the following year.
The Danish coastal armored ships
| Surname | Launch | displacement | speed | Main armament |
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| Tordenskjold | September 30, 1880 | 2,534 t | 13.3 kn | 1 × 35.5 cm L / 25 |
| Iver Hvitfeldt | April 14, 1886 | 3,478 t | 15.1 kn | 2 × 26 cm L / 35 |
| Skjold | May 8, 1896 | 2,195 t | 13.4 kn | 1 × 24 cm L / 40 |
| Herluf trolls | September 2, 1899 | 3,505 t | 15.6 kn | 2 × 24 cm L / 40 |
| Olfert Fischer | May 9, 1903 | 3,650 t | 15.8 kn | 2 × 24 cm L / 43 |
| Peder Skram | May 2, 1908 | 3,735 t | 16.0 kn | 2 × 24 cm L / 43 |
Renewed use of the name
- From 1947 to 1964 the Danish Navy had the torpedo boat Huitfeldt (most recently P 520 ) of 901 t, the construction of which had already started during the World War under German occupation together with the sister ship Willemoes .
- From 1978 to 2000 the Danish Navy owned the speedboat Huitfeldt ( P 543 , 260 t) of the Willemoes class comprising ten boats , of which the sister boat Sehested (P 547) in Copenhagen-Holmen has been preserved as a museum ship.
- In 2008 the Danish Navy ordered three frigates of the Iver Huitfeldt class (5850 t); the lead ship Iver Huitfeldt (F 361) was put into service in January 2011.
literature
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Koehler's publishing company, Herford,
- R. Steen Steensen: Vore panserskibe. Marinehistorisk Selskab, 1968