Denmark's contribution to the United Nations Forces in Korea was the hospital ship Jutlandia, and to commemorate the work of the vessel the Danish Post Office, in 1953, issued a single stamp depicting the vessel in hospital ship colours. The Jutlandia was chartered from the Danish East Asiatic Company by the Danish Government, and after transforming the vessel from a passenger liner carrying 60, into a fully equipped hospital ship with beds for 200 ward patients, she was placed at the disposal of the United Nations. The conversion, which took place at Copenhagen, cost nearly £400,000. Her holds were transformed into hospital wards, and the ship divided into five sections, hospital, medical, chirurgical, psychiatric, and isolation departments, and there was a complete X-ray installation. Even the most complicated operations could be performed at sea. By special arrangements the accommodation could be increased from 200 patients to 400. The entire crew consisted of volunteers who signed on for a six-months period, and comprised about 100 persons, while the hospital personnel also consisted of about 100 including 14 physicians and surgeons, dispenser, dentist, chaplain, 30 hospital attendants, and 40 stretcher bearers. She made her first voyage under the United Nations flag in 1951, leaving Copenhagen on January 23, and was away for 16 months. It was estimated she cost the Danish Government over £1,000,000 for this period.
The Jutlandia is typical of the 4-masted, funnel-less vessels of the Danish East Asiatic Company. She was constructed by the Nakskov Shipbuilding Company in 1934 and was distinctive by reason of her Maier-form bow. A twinscrew motorship of 8,457 gross tons on dimensions of 436.8ft. x 61.2ft. x 32.6ft., her Burmeister and Wain engines give her a speed of 16 knots. The vessel is equipped with three oil auxiliaries.
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Built as cargo-passenger vessel under yard No 60 by the Nakskov Skibsvaerft, Nakskov for the Det Østasiatiske Kompagni, (The East Asiatic Company Ltd.) (EAC) Copenhagen.
11 August 1934 launched under the name JUTLANDIA.
Tonnage 8.457 gross, 5.204 net, 6.753dwt., dim. 141.73 x 18.6 x 10.97m., length bpp. 129.54m.
Powered by two B&W diesel engines, 7.850 ihp, speed 15 knots, maximum 17 knots. Twin propellers.
Bunker capacity 1.119 ton oil, 502 ton fresh water, 2.044 ton ballast, 644 m³ deep tanks, 13.663 m³ cargo space.
Passenger accommodation for 69 passengers in 34 1st class cabins.
Crew 70 including 1 doctor.
She was the only vessel in the EAC fleet ever build with the Mayer-bow.
Five hatches, four masts. Load and discharging gear: 17 derricks which 1 could lift 40 tons. 4 Masts, not a funnel.
November 1934 completed.
She was special built to replace older tonnage in the service from Denmark to Thailand (Copenhagen to Bangkok).
When World War II broke out in September 1939 she had arrived at Rotterdam en route to Copenhagen.
She made a safe passage to Denmark and was loaded for an other voyage to Bangkok, returned at Copenhagen in January 1940.
After discharging she was requisitioned by the Danish Government and sailed to Argentina to load a full cargo of grain and other foodstuff for Denmark where she arrived on 31st March 1940.
01 April, after discharging she sailed to the Nakskov Shipyard for her yearly dry-docking and overhaul, and when war broke out between Denmark and Germany on the 9th April the country was quickly occupied, the JUTLANDIA did fall in German hands.
Due to be short on diesel oil the Germans were not interested in the vessel, and she was concealed in a small inlet not far from the shipyard, together with two other motorships of the EAC, with on board only a few watchmen.
Just before the end of the war the three ships were attacked by Allied airplanes and lightly damaged.
After the war and repair she was put in the service between Denmark and North America, her first voyage was in September 1945 from Antwerp via Southampton to New York where she arrived on 13 October.
1948 Her passenger accommodation was increased to 77 passengers.
15 September 1950 she made the last voyage from Copenhagen to New York and Boston and when she returned to Denmark she was taken up by the Danish Government.
25 June 1950, when war broke out between North and South Korea, the Danish Government immediately accepted to help the United Nations in the war against North Korea.
The Danish Government refitted the Jutlandia in a modern hospital vessel with 300 beds, 3 operating theaters, a dental clinic, and an x-ray room by the Nakskov Shipyard.
23 January 1951 commissioned as hospital ship under command of the navy Commodore Kai Hammerich and Capt Christen Kondrup in charge of the ship with a crew and hospital staff of around 100 persons.
She sailed the same day for Korea and she returned 19 October 1953 at Copenhagen.
She made two more voyages to Korea, the first two voyages she was based at Pusan first as sick-bay but during the second voyage she was also open for Korean military personnel and civilian patients.
Before she sailed on her third voyage she was fitted out with a helicopter deck, and she was based in the Bay of Ichon very close to the front, and the wounded could be brought on board from the battlefield.
When a cease-fire was declared on 27 July 1953 she was ordered back to Denmark via Japan to pick up wounded allied soldiers and released POW’s to be transported to their homeland in route to Denmark.
29 August she sailed from Tokyo and arrived at Copenhagen on 19 October 1953, welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of around 20.000 people.
The same day also decommissioned after she served the United Nations for 999 days.
After a docking and overhaul by the Nakskov Shipyard and refitted again in a cargo-passenger vessel, she commenced her service between Copenhagen to Bangkok.
September 1960 used a Royal Yacht when the King of Thailand His Majesty King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit made an official visit to Scandinavia and the couple and his suite used the JUTLANDIA.
After a visit to Copenhagen she sailed on board the JUTLANDIA to Oslo and Stockholm.
After a month as Royal Yacht she got again in the service from Denmark to Thailand.
Three years later she took Crown Princess Margrethe (now in 2005 Queen) on her official visit to the Far East, during the passage she made calls at Genoa, Heraklion, Suez Canal, Aden, Karachi, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong were the Crown Princess disembarked.
After the JUTLANDIA arrived at Copenhagen on 19 December 1964 from Bangkok she was sold to Spanish breakers, and on 4 January 1965 she sailed for the last time from Copenhagen for the breakers yard in Bilbao, where she arrived 09 January 1965.
Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1934. Navicula. Log Book. http://hospitalship-jutlandis.dk/html/m ... le&artid=2 http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheS ... %20ship.hm
North Atlantic Seaway by N R P Bonsor.
11 August 1934 launched under the name JUTLANDIA.
Tonnage 8.457 gross, 5.204 net, 6.753dwt., dim. 141.73 x 18.6 x 10.97m., length bpp. 129.54m.
Powered by two B&W diesel engines, 7.850 ihp, speed 15 knots, maximum 17 knots. Twin propellers.
Bunker capacity 1.119 ton oil, 502 ton fresh water, 2.044 ton ballast, 644 m³ deep tanks, 13.663 m³ cargo space.
Passenger accommodation for 69 passengers in 34 1st class cabins.
Crew 70 including 1 doctor.
She was the only vessel in the EAC fleet ever build with the Mayer-bow.
Five hatches, four masts. Load and discharging gear: 17 derricks which 1 could lift 40 tons. 4 Masts, not a funnel.
November 1934 completed.
She was special built to replace older tonnage in the service from Denmark to Thailand (Copenhagen to Bangkok).
When World War II broke out in September 1939 she had arrived at Rotterdam en route to Copenhagen.
She made a safe passage to Denmark and was loaded for an other voyage to Bangkok, returned at Copenhagen in January 1940.
After discharging she was requisitioned by the Danish Government and sailed to Argentina to load a full cargo of grain and other foodstuff for Denmark where she arrived on 31st March 1940.
01 April, after discharging she sailed to the Nakskov Shipyard for her yearly dry-docking and overhaul, and when war broke out between Denmark and Germany on the 9th April the country was quickly occupied, the JUTLANDIA did fall in German hands.
Due to be short on diesel oil the Germans were not interested in the vessel, and she was concealed in a small inlet not far from the shipyard, together with two other motorships of the EAC, with on board only a few watchmen.
Just before the end of the war the three ships were attacked by Allied airplanes and lightly damaged.
After the war and repair she was put in the service between Denmark and North America, her first voyage was in September 1945 from Antwerp via Southampton to New York where she arrived on 13 October.
1948 Her passenger accommodation was increased to 77 passengers.
15 September 1950 she made the last voyage from Copenhagen to New York and Boston and when she returned to Denmark she was taken up by the Danish Government.
25 June 1950, when war broke out between North and South Korea, the Danish Government immediately accepted to help the United Nations in the war against North Korea.
The Danish Government refitted the Jutlandia in a modern hospital vessel with 300 beds, 3 operating theaters, a dental clinic, and an x-ray room by the Nakskov Shipyard.
23 January 1951 commissioned as hospital ship under command of the navy Commodore Kai Hammerich and Capt Christen Kondrup in charge of the ship with a crew and hospital staff of around 100 persons.
She sailed the same day for Korea and she returned 19 October 1953 at Copenhagen.
She made two more voyages to Korea, the first two voyages she was based at Pusan first as sick-bay but during the second voyage she was also open for Korean military personnel and civilian patients.
Before she sailed on her third voyage she was fitted out with a helicopter deck, and she was based in the Bay of Ichon very close to the front, and the wounded could be brought on board from the battlefield.
When a cease-fire was declared on 27 July 1953 she was ordered back to Denmark via Japan to pick up wounded allied soldiers and released POW’s to be transported to their homeland in route to Denmark.
29 August she sailed from Tokyo and arrived at Copenhagen on 19 October 1953, welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of around 20.000 people.
The same day also decommissioned after she served the United Nations for 999 days.
After a docking and overhaul by the Nakskov Shipyard and refitted again in a cargo-passenger vessel, she commenced her service between Copenhagen to Bangkok.
September 1960 used a Royal Yacht when the King of Thailand His Majesty King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit made an official visit to Scandinavia and the couple and his suite used the JUTLANDIA.
After a visit to Copenhagen she sailed on board the JUTLANDIA to Oslo and Stockholm.
After a month as Royal Yacht she got again in the service from Denmark to Thailand.
Three years later she took Crown Princess Margrethe (now in 2005 Queen) on her official visit to the Far East, during the passage she made calls at Genoa, Heraklion, Suez Canal, Aden, Karachi, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong were the Crown Princess disembarked.
After the JUTLANDIA arrived at Copenhagen on 19 December 1964 from Bangkok she was sold to Spanish breakers, and on 4 January 1965 she sailed for the last time from Copenhagen for the breakers yard in Bilbao, where she arrived 09 January 1965.
Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1934. Navicula. Log Book. http://hospitalship-jutlandis.dk/html/m ... le&artid=2 http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheS ... %20ship.hm
North Atlantic Seaway by N R P Bonsor.