Danish ironclad Dannebrog

Career (Denmark)
Name:	HDMS Dannebrog
Namesake:	Dannebrog
Builder:	Naval Dock Yard, Copenhagen
Laid down:	April 28, 1848
Launched:	September 25, 1850
Commissioned:	May 17, 1853
Decommissioned:	February 2, 1875
Refit:	21 May 1862–30 March 1864
Struck:	30 May 1896
Fate:	Scrapped 1897
General characteristics (after reconstruction)
Type:	Armored frigate
Displacement:	3,057 tonnes (3,009 long tons)
Length:	65.5 m (214 ft 11 in) (p.p.)
Beam:	15.5 m (50 ft 10 in)
Draft:	7.1 m (23 ft)
Installed power:	1,150 ihp (860 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft, 1 steam engine
Sail plan:	Barque-rigged
Speed:	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement:	350
Armament:	6 x 60-pounder 150 Cnt. Guns (rifled) 8 x 24-pounder 62 Cnt. Guns (rifled)
Armour:	Belt: 114 mm (4.5 in) Battery: 114 mm (4.5 in)

The Danish ironclad Dannnebrog was an armored frigate of the Royal Danish Navy. She was built as a sailing ship of the line, but was reconstructed into an ironclad in the early 1860s.

References

• Balsved, Johnny E.. "DANNEBROG (1853–1875)". Danish Naval History. http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/D/Dannebrog%281853%29.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-20. 
• Gardiner, Robert, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. 
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.