Peder Skram (F 352)

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Career
HDMS Peder Skram
Type:	Peder Skram class frigate
Builder:	Helsingør Skibsværft og Maskinbyggeri A/S Denmark
Laid down:	September 25, 1964
Launched:	May 20, 1965
Commissioned:	May 25, 1966
Decommissioned:	July 5, 1990
Fate:	Museum ship
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,755 Tons (Full)
Length:	112.65 m
Beam:	12.25 m
Draught:	5.2 m
Propulsion:	2 22,000 SHP gas turbines (modified Pratt & Whitney JT4); 2 2,400 SHP General Motors diesel engines
Speed:	30+ Knots
Range:	Range 7,200 NM@ 15 Knots
Complement:	Crew 207
Armament:	4 × 127 mm cannons (until 1977), 4 × 40 mm cannons, 4 × 20 mm cannons, depth charges, torpedoes, as of 1978: 8 × Sea Sparrow SAMs, 8 × Harpoon SSMs.

HDMS Peder Skram (F352) was a Peder Skram class frigate in the Royal Danish Navy, named after Peder Skram, a 16th century Danish admiral.

1 Design
2 Operational History
- 2.1 Modernization
- 2.2 1982 Harpoon Missile Incident
3 Decommissioning
4 External links
5 Notes and references

[edit] Design

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Peder Skram was an innovative design using a hybrid propulsion system, a combined gas turbine and diesel approach (CODOG).^[1]

[edit] Operational History

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[edit] Modernization

Peder Skram underwent significant refits in:

1970
1977 - 1978

[edit] 1982 Harpoon Missile Incident

In 1982 Peder Skram was involved in an accidental launch of a Harpoon missile, fortunately without inflicting bodily harm.

[edit] Decommissioning

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She 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.