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Danish Shipbuilders
Danish shipbuilders in the Age of SailThis list, arranged by year, presents builders of Danish warships from the late 17th century to mid-19th century.Royal Danish Naval Museum /ref> It names the Heads of Naval Construction (Fabrikmester) and includes lesser shipbuilders to the Danish Royal Navy. It does not include purely commercial shipbuilders. List of shipbuilders ;Before 1673 Rubbens (senior and junior) built HDMS Sophia Amalia launched in 1650 in Christiana (Oslo). ;1673–1739 *Thies Hermansen v.d. Borgh: credited with only one ship viz ''Christianus Quintus'' (1673), a ship-of-the-line *Schøits credited with the building of the frigate Ørnen, sometimes called Sorte Ørn (the black eagle), launched in 1694 *Francis Sheldon ''Tree Löver'' (1689) and ''Nordstiernen'' (1703) both ships-of-the-line *Henrik Span e.g. ''Dannebroge'' (1692) and ''Dronning Lovisa'' (1695): both ships-of-the-line *Ole Judichær 1692–1727 Prior to 1739 all warship design in the Danish Naval dockya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HDMS Sophia Amalia
The ''Sophia Amalia'' was a ship of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy named after Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Sophia Amalia, the wife of King Frederick III of Denmark, Frederick III. Construction and design The ship was built at Hovedøya, Hovedøen in Oslo, Christiania under the direction of English shipbuilder James Robbins (shipbuilder), James Robbins and was launched in 1650. She was 51.8 meters long and at that time one of the largest naval vessels in the world. She was commissioned by King Christian IV of Denmark, Christian IV specifically to surpass the Kingdom of Great Britain, British ship . The ship was manned by a crew of 680 and had an armament of 108 guns, surpassing ''Sovereign of the Seas'' by eight guns. Captains *Rasmus Clemmensen 3 June 1667 *Simon Fochs de Boer May 1673 *Niels Juel August 1675 as head of vanguard in the Baltic Sea Fleet under Cort Adelaer with the admiral's flag raised in the Sophie Amalia *Gustavus Meyer (junior lieutenant on board in 168 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Michael Krabbe
Frederik Michael Krabbe (1725–1796)Topsøe-Jensen, Vol 2, pp 25–27. was a Danish naval officer and master shipbuilder Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to befor ... (''fabrikmester'') Personal Born at Esrum, some 22 miles north of Copenhagen, on 28 May 1725, Krabbe was the son of a regimental quartermaster. His first marriage, to Cæcilie Andrea Bille (whose father was rear admiral Daniel Ernst Bille)at the naval church at Holmen, established links with two important Danish naval families - the Billes and the Stibolts through his bride's parentage. He had three marriages altogether (1759, 1766 and 1772) which all ended with his wives' deaths. His second wife was Christiane Charlotte Charisius(1738-1771), daughter of Constantin Augustus Charisius of Constantinborg and Kir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlogsværftet
''Orlogsværftet'' () was a Danish naval shipyard under the Royal Danish Navy. Before 1924, it was an integral part of the naval base at Holmen Naval Base, Holmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark, with an independent management from 1692 when Olaus Judichær became the first factory director. In 1924, the shipyard was established as a regular company under the Naval Ministry, responsible for building and maintaining naval ships and aircraft. Orlogsværftet delivered its last newly built vessel in 1970, the submarine Nordkaperen, and continued as a repair yard until 1995, when the navy was moved out of Copenhagen to Korsør and Frederikshavn. Maersk-owned Odense Steel Shipyard replaced Orlogsværftet as the navy's primary shipyard. In the 20th century the ship yard also produced a smaller number of civilian vessels, including ferrys for the Danish State Railways, boats for the Post Denmark, Royal Danish Mail and a single ship for GN Store Nord. Personnel The chief designer at Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Schifter
Andreas Schifter (1779–1852) was a Danish naval officer and shipbuilder, a capable naval administrator and admiral. He oversaw the transition of the Danish navy from sail to early steam power. Personal He was the son of Christian Schifter (1741–1785), a captain in the Danish Asiatic Company, and Karen Ibsen (1740–96).Project RunebergBjerg in GyldendalThe entry in Gyldendal spells the name Schiffer. All other references supplied spell it Schifter. He had two elder brothers and two younger sisters. He lived with his widowed mother and four siblings in Hyskenstræde (Strand Quarter No. 38, now Hyskenstræde 10) at the time of the 1787 census. He married, in 1803 in the Danish naval church at Holmen, Christiane Dorthea Bech – the daughter of a senior highcourt official.Topsøe-Jensen Vol 2 pp 445 - 447 His younger sister Christine was married to the wealthy merchant, ship-owner and ship builder Jacob Holm. Career As a cadet from 1794 he won the Gerner Medal for mathematic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Copenhagen (1807)
The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 7 September 1807) was a British bombardment of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in order to capture or destroy the Dano-Norwegian fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. The incident led to the outbreak of the Anglo-Russian War of 1807, which ended with the Treaty of Örebro in 1812. Britain's first response to Napoleon's Continental System was to launch a major naval attack on Denmark. Although ostensibly neutral, Denmark was under heavy French pressure to pledge its fleet to Napoleon. In September 1807, the Royal Navy bombarded Copenhagen, seizing the Danish fleet and assured use of the sea lanes in the North Sea and Baltic Sea for the British merchant fleet. A consequence of the attack was that Denmark did join the Continental System and the war on the side of France, but without a fleet it had little to offer. The attack gave rise to the term to ''Copenhagenize''. Background Despite the defeat a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frantz Hohlenberg
Frantz Christopher Henrik HohlenbergDansk Militærhistorie â€Eric Nielsen/ref>Dansk Biografisk Lexico/ref> (17 February 1764 9 January 1804) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in ship design and had little seagoing experience. He succeeded Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt as Master Shipbuilder (''fabriksmester'') at the Royal Danish Dockyards in 1796. His ships included five ships of the line (one constructed posthumously) and 18 frigates (five constructed posthumously). Three of the ships of the line and nine of the frigates were captured at the 1807 Battle of Copenhagen and subsequently added to the Royal Navy. He resigned after a controversy in 1803. Early life and family Hohlenberg was born on 16 February 1764 (or possibly 16 February 1765Topsøe-Jensen Vol 1 page 585) in Ã…benrÃ¥, the son of Christopher Carl Henrik Hohlenberg (1728–73) and Øllegaard Hedevig Grabow (1739–1807). His father was a captain in the navy. He became a junior lieutenant in the Danish Navy at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt
Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt (born 14 February 1741 29 February 1796) was a Danish naval officer and ship builder, who served in the French navy for four years.Topsøe-Jensen Vol 2 pp 554 – 557 and became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Family E W Stibolt's grandfather, Hans Andersen Stibolt, was Commandant on Christiansø, Denmark's most easterly point, with the army rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He had roots to German nobility. His father, (naval) Commander Caspar Henrik Stibolt, who became a naturalised Danish citizen in 1777, two years before his death, was also for many years Commandant of Christainsø. He was married twice, the second marriage (to Cathrina von Harrasoffski ) giving issue to sixteen children of whom eight, including Ernst Wilhelm, became Danish naval officers. See Stibolt In 1791 Ernst Wilhelm Stibolt married Kirsten Güldencrone Kaas, the daughter of rear admiral Ulrik Christian Kaas. Career From a cadet in the Danish navy in 1760, St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Gerner
Henrik Gerner (1742–1787) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in shipbuilding and naval architecture. His interests as an entrepreneurial engineer led to unsinkable gun platforms, horse-driven dredging machines, and desalination equipment for Orient-bound trading ships. Early life and naval career The greatgrandson of the bishop of the same name, Henrik Gerner was born on 5 July 1742 in Copenhagen and baptised in Holmen ChurchThis same reference notes that the epitaph and gravestone have misreported his year of birth! and married in the same church on Christmas Eve 1773, Henrik Gerner became a volunteer cadet at the naval academy in 1755, sailing to the West Indies in the frigate ''Christianborg'' before becoming a full cadet the next year. Gerner graduated from the Naval Cadet Academy in Copenhagen as a junior lieutenant in 1763, where he was already interested in the art and science of shipbuilding, and in 1764 sailed with the frigate ''Falster'' to Russia and Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Gerner
Andreas Gerner was a Danish naval officer who was also employed in the building of ships for the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. Personal Gerner was the grandson of Henrik Gerner Henrik Gerner (1742–1787) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in shipbuilding and naval architecture. His interests as an entrepreneurial engineer led to unsinkable gun platforms, horse-driven dredging machines, and desalination equipmen ..., the bishop of Viborg and the father of Henrik Gerner, the ''fabrikmester'' shipbuilder. KommandørkaptajnEquivalent to Commander - see Ranks and insignia of NATO navies' officers Gerner was born in 1698 and died in 1749. Career In 1735 Andreas Gerner was sent abroad as a senior lieutenant to study shipbuilding, and on return he was entrusted with the building of some ships (but never achieved the top post of fabrikmester to the Royal danish navy). In 1746 he bought three Snow (ship), snows in England. His largest ship, the ship-of-the-line Fyen of 50 guns, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Span
Henrik Span (17 April 1634 - 27 December 1694) was a naval officer in the Dutch, Venetian and DanishTopsøe-Jensen Vol 2 pp 235 - 236 services. He reached the rank of Admiral in the Royal Danish Navy in 1683 and headed the Royal Danish Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen from 1690. In 1692, he was granted Hørbygaard at Holbæk and raised to the peerage by Christian V of Denmark. Early life Span was born in Oldendorf in the County of Schaumburg, the son of consul Bernhard Span and Elisabeth Beichmann. He joined the merchant navy at an early age, and was for a short while a prisoner of the French. Naval career Span enrolled in the Royal Dutch Navy where in 1652–54 he served in the war with England. In 1654–58, he served in the Venetian navy in the war against the Ottoman Empire. In 1658, he returned to the Royal Dutch Navy. He served under Michael de Ruyter when an expeditionary fleet was sent to Denmark where it managed to liberate Nyborg in November 1659. He then ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Barbé
Laurent Barbé was a French shipbuilder born about 1696. He came to the attention of Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe,Count Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe was appointed head of the Danish navy in 1735 when in 1739 the newly formed Danish Naval Construction Commission was seeking a replacement chief designer and shipbuilder. Barbé enjoyed Danneskiold's patronage and protection for some six years but fell out of favour when Danneskiold retired from the Construction Commission. Personal life Nothing is known of Laurent Barbé's personal or professional life before Copenhagen. He married Brigitte Agnes Mariane Schenck, some thirty years his junior, the daughter of a senior officer in royal lifeguard regiment. Shipbuilder to the Royal Danish Navy The design of Barbé's first ship of the line for Denmark (which would become ''Elephanten'' 1741) was produced by Barbé as part of a competition between him and another French shipbuilder, du Chemin, for the position of the new master shipbuilder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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