The Danish ironclad ''Lindormen'' was a
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built for the
Royal Danish Navy
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in the 1860s. She was
scrapped
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in 1907.
Description
The ship was
long overall
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with a
beam
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of . She had a
draft
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of and
displaced . Her crew consisted of 150 officers and enlisted men.
[Gardiner, p. 365]
''Lindormen'' had two horizontal
direct-acting steam engines,
[ built by ]Burmeister & Wain
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,[Silverstone, p. 55] each driving one propeller shaft
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. The engines were rated at a total of for a designed speed of . The ship carried a maximum of of coal[ that gave her a range of at .][
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rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns mounted in a single turret
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. In 1876 a pair of RML guns were added. Four years later a pair of rifled breech-loading guns were also added and the 76-millimeter guns were replaced by another pair of 87-millimeter breech-loading guns in 1885.[ The 227-millimeter guns were ultimately replaced by a pair of quick-firing guns.][
The ship had a complete ]waterline
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armored belt
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that was thick. The gun turret was protected by armor plates. The conning tower
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armor was also 127 millimeters thick.[
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Construction and career
''Lindormen'', named for a serpent from Norse legend, was laid down
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by the Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen
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on 20 July 1866, launched on 8 August 1868 and completed on 15 August 1869. She was stricken from the Navy List on 29 June 1907 and sold for scrap. The ship was broken up in the Netherlands.[Silverstone, p. 59]
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Ironclad warships of the Royal Danish Navy
1868 ships
Ships built in Copenhagen