Two ships named ''Trost'' served with the
Dano-Norwegian navy between 1602 and 1653.
*Trost or Hunden Trost (1602) was a little ship with a crew of 48 men and 16 cannon. She was decommissioned in 1621.
*Trost (1625) was a pinnace with a crew of 68 and 20 (or 16?) cannon which served from 1625 to 1653.
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Trost(1625)
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The name is German rather than Danish; the vessel is sometimes referenced in translation as the ''Comfort'' or the ''Consolation''. The name, however, probably refers to one of the Queen Anne Catherine of Brandenburg's lapdogs and the vessel is also referenced as ''Hunden'' ("Dog") and ''Skjodehunden'' ("Lapdog").
''Trost'' (1602)
''Trost'' served as John Cunningham's flagship during the 1605 Hans Køning expedition
John Cunningham ( da, Hans Kønig, i=no; – 9 December 1651) was a Scottish nobleman, explorer, Dano-Norwegian naval captain, and Governor of Finnmark.
Biography
In 1605, Cunningham became captain of the 60-ton Danish naval ship . Alo ...
to Greenland; Godske Lindenov
Godske Christoffersen Lindenov or Lindenow (d. 1612 Copenhagen) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was a commander on one of King Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland.
Early life
He was of the noble family Lindenov of Linders ...
's flagship during his expedition the next year; and Carsten Richardson
Carsten Richardson was an early 17th-century Holsteinian-Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was the commander of King Christian IV's final expedition to Greenland.
Carsten Richardson was in command of one of five ships in the 1606 exped ...
's flagship during his failed expedition the year after that. King Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland had been organized to reestablish contact with the lost Norse settlements on Greenland and then to exploit the silver and gold ore supposedly returned by the first expedition.
''Trost'' (1625)
''Trost'' served from 1625 to 1653.
See also
* Danish colonization of Greenland
References
Trost
1600s ships
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