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Beskytteren

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Beskytteren			Orlogsværftets, København	11.1899	7.6.1900	11.1900	captured by Germany 8.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	300
Displacement full, t	415
Length, m	43.4
Breadth, m	7.61
Draught, m	3.80
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	625
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)	1200(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 47/40 M.1885, 2 x 1 - 37/20 M.1875
Complement	47

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Project history

Perhaps, fishery protection ships were unique ships of Danish Navy, intended for operations in high seas, though, of course, it is very difficult to consider them as rigorous warships. They represented very variegated company: huge, to Danish measures, Ingolf with more than 1000t displacement, armed with 120mm guns and carrying a seaplane, and small 80t Ternen with 37mm gun.

Modernizations

1930s: - 2 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 57/40 M.1885, 1 x 1 - 47/40 M.1885

Naval service

Beskytteren was captured by Germans in August, 1943 at Copenhagen. She was returned in May, 1945 and used as minesweeper depot ship till 1950.