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PEDER SKRAM HDMS

Post by aukepalmhof » Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:45 pm

On 27th May 2013 Denmark has issue a miniature sheet to commemorate the centenary of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen harbour. She was first unveiled on 23rd August 1913.

The Little Mermaid was sculpted by Edvard Eriksen and the model for the statue was his wife, Eline. The statue was funded by the founder of the Carlsberg Brewery, Carl Jacobsen, who gave it to the capital as a gift.

The design is based on an evening photo taken by freelance photographer Tine Harden in June 2012.

To the left of the statue can be seen the Royal Danish Naval Museum and the Royal Yacht DANNEBORG which has been covered in previous issues of Watercraft Philately, or her details you can find in the index.

Behind the DANNEBROG is the Danish frigate PEDER SKRAM, one of three vessels on display at the museum. (Very difficult to see only partly her mast and funnel.)

HDMS PEDER SKRAM (F352) was the lead ship for a class of three frigates in the Royal Danish Navy which was in use until 1990. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a museum ship, part of the Royal Danish Naval Museum. The ship is named after PEDER SKRAM, a 16th century Danish admiral.

Built as a frigate under yard No 370 by Helsingør Skibsværft (Elsinore Ship Yard), Denmark for the Royal Danish Navy.
25 September 1964 laid down.
20 May 1965 launched as the HDMS PEDER SKRAM.
Displacement 2,030 ton standard, 2,755 ton full load, dim. 112.65 x 12.25 x 5.2m. (draught)
Propulsion 2 x 22,000 shp (16,405 kW) gas turbines (modified Pratt & Whitney JT4. 2 x 2.400 shp (1,790 kW) General Motors diesel engines.
Speed 30 knots.
Range by a speed of 15 knots, 7,200 mile.
Armament up to 1977:
4 – 127mm cannon, 4 – 40mm L70 cannon (Bofors 40mm). Depth charges. 4 – 533 mm torpedoes.
From 1978: 2 – 127mm cannon, 4 – 40mm L/70 cannon (Bofors 40mm). Depth charges4 – 538 mm torpedoes. 8 – Sea Sparrow SAMs and 8 – Harpoon SSMs missiles.
Crew 207.
Commissioned 25 May 1966.

PEDER SKRAM was an innovative design using a hybrid propulsion system, a combined gas turbine and diesel approach (CODOG). PEDER SKRAM underwent significant refit in 1970 and a midlife update 1977–78.

In 1982 PEDER SKRAM was involved in the accidental launch of a Harpoon missile, fortunately without inflicting bodily harm (see link below).

In 1985 PEDER SKRAM became the first western ship to sink an enemy submarine since the Second World War when it sunk the RINS KOOSEH (Ex USS Trout) with a T61a torpedo while escorting a convoy of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian ships. (The USS TROUT (SS-566) was handed over to the Iranian Navy and renamed KOOSEH but after the revolution took place the Iranian Government refused to take her, she was later scrapped in the USA, she can not be this submarine what was lost)

PEDER SKRAM was decommissioned on 5 July 1990, internal installations were auctioned off as scrap two years later. In the mid-1990s it was decided to restore her as a museum ship.

PEDER SKRAM is today operated as a museum ship on a volunteer basis. It is open to visitors every day from 11.00 TO 17.00 during schools’ summer and autumn vacations and at weekends in June and August.

Denmark 2013 14.50DKr sgMS?, scott?
Denmark 1990 4.75 Kr First Day Cover, the war vessel on the left is the frigate PEDER SKRAM.


Sources & image: The Danish Post’s Journal 3-2013 and Wikipedia. http://www.navalhistory.dk/english/hist ... cident.htm.


Peter Crichton.
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