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Jylland

Jylland

Museum ship

Royal Danish Navy

TypeFrigate
WarSecond Schleswig War
Main guns30 × 30-pounder 50 cwt. guns

Screw frigate. Her rudder was hit at Heligoland, which stopped the Danes pursuing. Preserved as a museum ship at Ebeltoft.

Fregatten Jylland total Photo: Sebastian Nils, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

As built

  • 30 × 30-pounder 50 cwt. guns
  • 14 × 30-pounder 40 cwt. guns

In 1864

  • 32 × 30-pounder guns
  • 8 × 18-pounder rifled guns
  • 4 × 12-pounder rifled guns

Later

  • 20 × 6-inch 50 cwt. muzzle loading guns
  • 6 × 5-inch 28 cwt. breech loading guns
  • 6 × revolving cannon
  • 1 × 37 mm breech loading gun
  • 1 × Mitrailleuse
BuilderNaval War Yard, Copenhagen
Laid downJune 11, 1857
LaunchedNovember 20, 1860
CommissionedMay 15, 1862
Displacement2456 tons
Length102 m (335 ft)
Speed11 kn (20 km/h) on steam 12 kn (22 km/h) on sail
Complement405–437

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

November 20, 1860

9 May 1864

Rudder hit

Decommissioned

Museum ship

1908