Engineering:Danmark (ship)
 Danmark (unknown date) by Allen C. Green courtesy State Library of Victoria
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| Name: | Danmark |
| Owner: | Danish Maritime Authority |
| Builder: | Nakskov, Lolland |
| Launched: | 1932 |
| In service: | 1933 |
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| Status: | In active service as of 2024 |
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| Tonnage: | 790 GRT |
| Length: | 252 ft (77 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel engine, sails |
| Sail plan: | full-rigged; 26 sails |
| Complement: | 15 crew; 80 trainees |
Danmark is a full-rigged ship owned by the Danish Maritime Authority and based at the Maritime Training and Education Centre (da) in Frederikshavn, Denmark .[1][2][3]
Description
Danmark is 252 feet (77 m) in overall length with a beam of 32 feet (9.8 m) and a depth of 17 feet (5.2 m), with a gross tonnage of 790 tons.[2][4][5] She was designed for a crew complement of 120 but in a 1959 refit this was reduced to 80.[4] Although she is equipped with a 486-hp diesel engine capable of 9 knots (17 km/h) in other respects she retains many primitive features: for example, the steering gear lacks any mechanical assistance, and the stock anchors are raised by a capstan rather than a powered windlass.[4][5] The permanent crew has berths, but the trainees sleep in hammocks.[5]
History
Danmark succeeded København, a five-masted barque which was lost mysteriously at sea at the end of 1928, as Denmark's principal training ship.[5] Launched in 1932 at the Nakskov Shipyard in Lolland and fitted out the following year,[3] she was built to train officers of the Danish merchant marine.[4] In 1939 she visited the United States to participate in the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City , but at the outbreak of hostilities in World War II she was ordered to remain in US waters to avoid capture by the Germans.[4][5] She was then based in Jacksonville, Florida, and maintained with the help of the Danish American community there.[4][5]
After the attack on Pearl Harbor the captain, Knud L. Hansen, offered the ship to the U.S. government as a training vessel. This offer was accepted, and Danmark moved to New London, Connecticut, to train cadets at the United States Coast Guard Academy there.[2] Approximately five thousand cadets were trained before the ship was returned to Denmark in 1945.[4][5] Her designation in the U.S. Coast Guard was USCGC Danmark (WIX-283). She resumed her training duties the following year. In recognition of her wartime service, a bronze plaque was placed on the mainmast,[6] and Danmark was given the honor of leading the parade of ships at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York.[4] Experience with Danmark led to the acquisition of the USCGC Eagle from Germany at the end of the war as a training vessel.[4][5]
Training voyages continue to be offered, not only to Danes but also to those of any nation interested in learning the basics of seamanship on a large sailing vessel.[3]
The ship was one of seven ships used in filming the British BBC TV-series Onedin Line (1971-1980).
The ship was involved in a collision with USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul in September 2022. Danmark was being towed by a tugboat at the time.[7]
Line art of the Danmark
References
- ↑ "About us". Danish Maritime Authority. http://www.dma.dk/AboutUs/Sider/Mainpage.aspx. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 "2005 Ships". Sail Baltimore. Archived from the original on 2012-04-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20120413204414/http://www.sailbaltimore.org/05ships.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Three-mastered full-rigged sailing vessel Danmark to arrive in St. Petersburg". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Archived from the original on 2010-12-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20101229054316/http://www.ambmoskva.um.dk/en/menu/Embassy/News/Three-masteredfull-riggedsailingvesselDanmarktoarriveinSt.Petersburg.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Braynard, Frank O. (1993). The Tall Ships of Today in Photographs. Dover. p. 55.
- ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Schäuffelen, Otmar (2005). Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World. Hearst Books. pp. 46–47.
- ↑ Daniels, Edwin H. (1990). Eagle seamanship: a manual for square-rigger sailing. Naval Institute Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780870212512. https://archive.org/details/eagleseamanship00edwi.
- ↑ Network, MI News (12 September 2022). "Danish Training Ship, The Danmark, Crashed With The USS Minneapolis- St. Paul". Marine Insight. https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/danish-training-ship-the-danmark-crashed-with-the-uss-minneapolis-st-paul/.
External links
- Training Ship Danmark from MARTEC site (in Danish)
- Skoleskib DANMARK from martec (in Danish)
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