Ships at Holmen by Dorothy Berry-Lound

About "Ships at Holmen"

by Dorothy Berry-Lound

About the artwork

This shot of the old naval dockyard was taken at Holmen, Copenhagen in Denmark.

The frigate on the left of this image is the HDMS Peder Skram, code named (as you can see) F352. It is named after a 16th Century Danish Admiral. It is now docked in Holmen in Copenhagen, Denmark and functions as a privately owned museum having been saved from scrapping and fully restored. However, it was once a fully functioning part of the Danish navy. It saw 25 years of service and was decommissioned in 1990. It has an interesting history, not least because on 6 September 1982 it accidentally fired a harpoon missile which luckily hit a row of empty cottages (which burnt to the ground). No-one was hurt. Since then it has had the nickname Hovsa Missil or Oops Missile. The exact cause of the malfunction was never found.

The other frigate you can see behind it, the P547, is the HDMS Sehested, named after Hannibal Sehested, a 17th-century Danish statesman. A Willemoes class missile boat of the Royal Danish Navy which was in commission from 1978 until 2000, it is now also docked at Holmen in Copenhagen serving as a museum ship, part of the Royal Danish Naval Museum. The Willemoes were a Danish-manufactured class of fast attack craft built for the naval defence of Denmark during the Cold War. The eighth of ten ships of her class, the Sehested was built at Frederikshavn Shipyard.

This photograph has added textures.