The "Espingol" - The Secret Weapon of 19th Century Denmark
During the two Slesvig wars of 1848-1850 and 1864, the Danish army employed a primitive automatic weapon and forerunner of the machine gun, the so-called "Espingol." It is unknown if this weapon ever received a different name in English. The espingol employed a unique form of rapid fire, and its magazine was muzzle loaded.

Rifle Fire Rockets
Although not widely known Denmark was heavily involvement in the "First Golden Age of Rocketry". Their development of a dedicated Rocket Corps and of manufacturing facilities put them, for a time, among the leaders of the nations who adopted Congreve's rocket system

V3
Called the V3, this was the "secret weapon" of the Danish resistance.

The Wreck of the Oldenborg
A Danish Ship-of -the-Line is wrecked, during a gale, off Capetown, South Africa, while engaged in a mission to protect Danish merchant ships returning from the far east.

Armored Battery Ship ROLF KRAKE and the War of 1864
This article describes the ROLF KRAKE's historic design, and operational employment in the German-Danish war of 1864, during which ROLF KRAKE provided heavy seaborne gunfire support to assist the Danish army's defensive operations ashore.

Christian III's Bronze Breech-Loading Cannon
In 1985 naval divers found a unique bronze cannon, with cast markings of the Danish king Christian III, at a shipwreck site offshore near the village of Mukran.

Danish Warship Procurement in the Early Steamship Age 1824-1862
This article examines the Danish navy's transition from all-wood, all-sail warships to the early employment of steam propulsion in Danish warships; the evolution from paddle-wheels to screw-propellers to drive the Danish navy's early steamships; the use of iron armor in Denmark's "broadside ironclads;" and Denmark's first all-iron, turret-armed warship, the ROLF KRAKE.

Fregatten Falster and Danish Frigate Design to 1746
The idiosyncrasies of the design of the frigate Falster, lost off Morocco in 1753, are discussed in the context of Danish frigate design in the century preceding 1746.

From the Life of Steen Bille: Hohlenberg, the Norge, and the Norge's Sea trials with the Danmark
The noted 19th Century Danish naval officer Steen Bille provides his observations on the Danish naval architect Hohlenberg, the design of Holenberg's battleship Norge, and Norge's sea trials witht the Danish battleship Danmark.

List of British Design Plans (Draughts) of Danish Warships Captured By Britain in 1807
A list of all British admiralty plans, of Danish warships seized by Britain at Copenhagen in 1807, that currently exist in Britain's National Maritime Museum, as well as a discussion of those plans and Danish ships.

Major Danish Warships Built at the Holmen Shipyard 1692-1744
This article describes the nationalization of Danish warship design and construction in the 1690s, and profiles the first fifty major Danish waships built at the Holmen shipyard in Copenhagen.

Surviving Figureheads of Danish Warships
A warship's figurehead typically symbolized an individual warship's name, and therefore represented the warship's identity. This in fact is the case of all the surviving figureheads of Danish warships that exist today. Of the vast numbers of figureheads carved for Danish warships, only 16 now survive, most of which are on display at various places in Denmark.

The Armoured Ram Stærkodder
In 1864 the Danish navy bought an armoured ram from France. The vessel never entered service in the Danish navy, but later found it way into the Confederate Navy, where it was named STONEWALL. In 1968 R. Steen Steensen, Commander, RDN, dedicated a chapter in his "Vore Panserskibe 1863-1943" to the Stærkodder, as the ship was to have been named, had it entered Danish Service. The text has here been translated by Søren Nørby, stud. mag. Royal Danish Naval Museum.

The loss of the Dykkeren
In 1916, the only serious accident that ever took place within the Danish submarine force occurred. The rescue operation which followed attracted a lot of attention worldwide, as this rescue effort of submariners trapped in a sunken submarine was the first of its kind.

Wrangels Palais discovered
In 1990, the wreck site of what is presumed to be the Danish 17th century warship Wrangels Palais was discovered in the Outer Skerries of the Shetland Islands. This is one of the very rare known wrecksites of a Danish warship during the age of sail.