World War 2 In Review: Danish Coast Defense Ship Peder Skram

Danish coastal defense ship Peder Skram.

1908: Sea trials in the Skagerrak

1910 and 1911: In Squadron

1911 - 1912: In Squadron (winter)

1912 and 1913: In the Training Squadron

1913 - 1914: Accommodation ship

April 15, 1914 - August 1, 1914: In the Training Squadron

August 1, 1914 - December 12, 1918: Joined the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces as the command ship of alternately the 1st Squadron in the Sound and the 2nd Squadron in the Great Belt

1919: Temporally decommissioned

1920 - 1921: Command Ship for the Submarine and the Torpedo Boat Flotilla to Southern Jutland and Gothenburg, Sweden

August 1921 - January 1922: Training exercises in the Bay of Koege, later command ship for the Training Flotilla

1922: Training ship for the Naval School of Cadets

1929: In Squadron with the Niels Iuel as training ships for naval cadets

1932: Accommodation ship for the Apprentice School

August 1934 - September 1934: In Squadron

May 1935: Escort for the Royal Yacht Dannebrog to Stockholm, Sweden

May 1939 - July 8, 1939: In Training Squadron with Niels Iuel

September 1, 1939: Joined the Danish Partly Mobilized Forces together with Niels Iuel, torpedo boats, submarines, mine ships and aircrafts at Aarhus, Jutland

April 13, 1940 - June 11, 1941: Temporally decommissioned at Horsens, Jutland; later returned to Holmen

1942: Temporally decommissioned at Holmen

1943: Temporally decommissioned at Holmen and acting as Command Ship for the Chief in Command of the Coastal Fleet

August 29, 1943: Scuttled by her own crew at Holmen, Copenhagen

1943: Raised by the Germans and towed to Kiel. Armed with anti-aircraft guns joining the "Kriegsmarine", under the name ADLER, as a training and anti-aircraft ship, anchored at Kiel, Germany

April 1945: Sunk during an allied air raid at Kiel

September 1945: Once again raised and towed to Copenhagen

April 1, 1949: Sold for scrapping

Specifications

Type: Coast Defense Ship (previously named Ironclad or Coastal Battleship)

Class: Herluf Trolle Class

Other Ships in Class:

Herluf Trolle

Olfert Fischer

Built by: Royal Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen

Design: Danish Admiralty Design

Laid down: April 25, 1905

Launched: May 2, 1908

Commissioned: September 24, 1908

Decommissioned: August 29, 1943

Displacement: 3,783 tons

Length: 87.4 m

Beam: 15.7 m

Draught: 5.0 m

Complement: 262 officers and men

Propulsion: 5,400 hps

Range: 2,620 nautical miles at 9 knots

Armament:

2 x 24 cm Guns

4 x 15 cm Guns

10 x 75 mm Guns

2 x 37 mm Guns

1 x 45 cm Torpedo Tube (bow)

2 x 45 cm Torpedo Tubes (amidships) (2x1)

1 x 45 cm Torpedo Tube (aft)

2 x 90 cm Search Lights

1916: 2 x 75 mm Guns replaced by 2 x 75 mm Anti-aircraft Guns

1934: 2 x 75 mm Anti-Aircraft Guns replaced by 4 x 8 mm Machineguns (2x2) and 4 x 20 mm Machineguns (2x2)

1939-1940: 4 x 20 mm Machineguns (2x2) replaced by 2 x 40 mm Machineguns

Speed: 16 knots

Note

In 1922 Peder Skram was experimentally equipped with an HM 1 seaplane.

Commanders

1911 - 1912: Captain Thomas V. Garde

1912 and 1913: Captain R. Bauditz

1914 - 1916: Captain C. V. Carstensen

1920 - 1921: Captain Henri L. E. Wenck

July 2, 1934 - September 19, 1934: Captain Paul Ipsen

Danish coastal defense ship Peder Skram, June 1939.

Coast Defense Ship Peder Skram.

Pedar Skram coastal defense ship: 3,700 tons, two 9.4-in guns and four 5.9-in guns, 16 knots. Scuttled at the Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen in August 1943 with two torpedo boats alongside her.