The ''Peder Skram''-class frigate was a class of
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
s built for the
Royal Danish Navy in the period 1964–1967. Only two vessels in this class were ever constructed, and . The ships were named after Danish admirals
Peder Skram
Peder Skram (died 11 July 1581) was a Danish Admiral and naval hero.
Biography
Skram born between 1491 and 1503, on his father's estate at Urup near Horsens in Jutland, Denmark.
He participated in military service during the Swedish War of L ...
and
Herluf Trolle
Herluf Trolle (14 January 1516 – 25 June 1565) was a Danish naval hero, Admiral of the Fleet and co-founder of Herlufsholm School (''Herlufsholm Skole og Gods''), a private boarding school at Næstved on the island of Zealand in Denmark.
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The ships were modernised in 1976–1978 and fitted with
guided missile
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s. ''Herluf Trolle'' suffered a serious engine room fire in 1982 and was repaired by 1983. Both ships were placed in
reserve
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in 1987
decommissioned in 1990. ''Peder Skram'' is preserved and open to the public at the naval station in
Copenhagen
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. ''Herluf Trolle'' was
scrapped
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in Belgium in 1995.
References
* Also published as
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- page from Danish Naval History
Frigate classes
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