HDMS Peder Skram (F352)

History
Name:	Peder Skram
Builder:	Helsingør Skibsværft (Elsinore Ship Yard), Denmark
Laid down:	25 September 1964
Launched:	20 May 1965
Commissioned:	25 May 1966
Decommissioned:	5 July 1990
Fate:	Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type:	Peder Skram-class frigate
Displacement:	2,755 t (2,711 long tons) full load
Length:	112.65 m (369 ft 7 in)
Beam:	12.25 m (40 ft 2 in)
Draught:	5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:	2 × 22,000 shp (16,405 kW) gas turbines (modified Pratt & Whitney JT4) 2 × 2,400 shp (1,790 kW) General Motors diesel engines
Speed:	30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Range:	7,200 nmi (13,300 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:	207
Armament:	Up to 1977 : 4 × 127 mm cannon (US 5"/38 caliber gun) 4 × 40 mm L/70 cannon (Bofors 40 mm) Depth charges 4 × 533 mm torpedoes From 1978 : 2 × 127 mm cannon (US 5"/38 caliber gun) 4 × 40 mm L/70 cannon (Bofors 40 mm) Depth charges 4 × 533 mm torpedoes 8 × Sea Sparrow SAMs 8 × Harpoon SSMs

HDMS Peder Skram was a Peder Skram class frigate in the Royal Danish Navy which was in use until 1990. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a privately operated museum ship along with the ships of the Royal Danish Naval Museum. The ship is named after Peder Skram, a 16th-century Danish admiral.

History

Career

Peder Skram was an innovative design using a hybrid propulsion system, a combined gas turbine and diesel approach (CODOG).^[1] Peder Skram underwent significant refit in 1970 and a midlife update 1977–78 ^[2]

1982 Harpoon missile incident

In 1982 Peder Skram was involved in the accidental launch of a Harpoon missile, which inflicted no bodily harm.

Decommissioning

Peder Skram was decommissioned in 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.

Museum ship

HDMS Peder Skram in its current location in Copenhagen Holmen

Peder Skram is today operated as a museum ship on a volunteer basis. It is open to visitors every day from 11am to 5pm in the school summer and autumn vacations and in all weekends in June and August.^[3]

See also

• HDMS Sælen (S323)
• List of museums in and around Copenhagen

References

1. Fregatten Peder Skram, The Museum Ship; Last accessed on June 27, 2007
2. Fregatterne Peder Skram og Herluf Trolle, Søren Nørby, Statens Forsvarshistoriske Museum, Copenhagen, 2006, ISBN 87-89022-48-3
3. "Peder Skram". Peder Skram. Retrieved 2011-01-20.

External links

• Fregatten Peder Skram Museum Ship (Danish)
• Danish Naval History

Coordinates: 55°41′19″N 12°36′18″E / 55.6885°N 12.6049°E