Danish Navy 500 years birthday
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Stop your agitation. The official name of the danish navy is "Den danske flåde". If the coast guard and fisheries control is included, the combined force is called "Søværnet"
http://www.monthuset.dk/flaaden500\
PS: The newspaper suggests that girlfriends are kept at home tomorrow. There are going to be 4,000 sailors in parade uniforms in Copenhagen.
You mean generally used name.
Rather like in English calling it "The Navy" or calling the R.N. "the British Navy".
By the way Danmand, I thought you'd be disapointed to learn that Crown Prince Frederik is being promoted tomorrow to Kommandør [Captain (N)].
http://forsvaret.dk/SOK/Nyt og Presse/oevrigenyheder/Pages/HKHKronprinsFrederikudnævnes.aspx
http://forsvaret.dk/SOK/Nyt og Presse/oevrigenyheder/Pages/HKHKronprinsFrederikudnævnes.aspx
"Ordener haenger man paa idioter,
Stjerner og baand man kun adelen gi'r."
Here is a picture, you undoubtful will enjoy, of frede's father, prins Henrik: http://ekstrabladet.dk/flash/kongelige/danskekongelige/article1387734.ece
"Du danskes vej til ros og magt, stormfulde hav"
No, sir, believe it or not, you are wrong. The official name is "Den danske flaade"You mean generally used name.
Rather like in English calling it "The Navy" or calling the R.N. "the British Navy".
You might want to look at the official website of the danish defense http://forsvaret.dk/FKO/Nyt og Presse/Ovrigenyheder/Pages/Flådenfejrer500-årsjubilæum.aspx
PS: I have by now figured out that you do this to irritate me.
I'm sure he does, but he apparently hasn't gotten the message very far. Or perhaps he regards it like Copenhagen v. København?
maybe the danes don't care much what the british are calling their flaade. They are afterall the traditional enemy.
Very well might be true in terms of RDN and HDMS, but does it explain not caring that in Danish KDM is being used?
I don't know where you are getting the KDM from. I have heard the term "Flaade" and the term "soevaern", but never Marine. Take my advice and look at the official danish defence website I referenced above. Or look at the coin.
You should try to be less stubborn.
Actually in this case I'm not trying to be, just looking at the reference, which may in fact be incorrect.
I note though that it is Marine in German (which I realize is not Danish).
Now you are digging yourself a bigger hole in the view of danes.
In german it is Kriegsmarine.
I think it actually began 1,000 years before 1510 when the nasty Vikings ruled the wavea. Did you see that movie where Kirk Douglas cut off Tony Curtis' arm?
The vikings were misunderstood. They were on a mission to bring democracy and freedom for women to the rest of Europe.
Just to put it in perspective
2. List of English Warships before 1485
The following list is based extensively upon that provided in Michael Oppenheim's History of the Administration of the Royal Navy ... (etc, see sources listing) and in Volume 1 of William Laird Clowes's The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900.
Note that almost every vessel listed had the words "of the Tower" (or "de la Tour" when inscribed in French, still an official language at the time) affixed to its name. This affix was simply the equivalent of the modern prefix "HMS" and is omitted below.
Note also that the number of guns quoted in most sources comprised almost entirely small(ish) iron weapons created from wrought material bound into barrels by iron hoops. These were exclusively anti-personnel weaponry; very few heavy weapons were carried, and even these were rarely used for ship-to-ship fire.
Trinity - Dismantled c. 1409, materials used for Trinity Royal
Goodgrace (c. 1400)
Le Carake (ex-Genoese Sancta Maria & Sancta Brigida, captured 1409)
Christopher 5 (1410/12) - Holk (similar to a cog)
Trinity Royal (1416)
Jesus (c. 1416)
George (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416) - To Venice 1424
Marie Hampton (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416)
Marie Sandwich (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416)
Agase (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416) - Wrecked on mudflats c. 1418
Andrew (ex-Genoese carrack Galeas Negre, captured 1417)
Peter (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1417)
Paul (ex-Genoese carrack Vivande, captured 1417)
Christopher Spayne (ex-Genoese Pynele ??, captured 1417) - Sold 1423
Marie Spayne (ex-Spanish ?, captured 1417)
Holigost Spayne [Holy Ghost of Spain] (ex-Spanish Santa Clara, captured 1417)
Grace Dieu (1418) - Lightning and fire, 1439
Grace Dieu (1449) - rebuilt 1473, BU c. 1487
Peter - Abandoned 1462
Mary 48
George
Edward Howard (c. 1466, ex-Portuguese ?, captured 1479)
Governor (1485)
Happy birthday anyway.
2. List of English Warships before 1485
The following list is based extensively upon that provided in Michael Oppenheim's History of the Administration of the Royal Navy ... (etc, see sources listing) and in Volume 1 of William Laird Clowes's The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900.
Note that almost every vessel listed had the words "of the Tower" (or "de la Tour" when inscribed in French, still an official language at the time) affixed to its name. This affix was simply the equivalent of the modern prefix "HMS" and is omitted below.
Note also that the number of guns quoted in most sources comprised almost entirely small(ish) iron weapons created from wrought material bound into barrels by iron hoops. These were exclusively anti-personnel weaponry; very few heavy weapons were carried, and even these were rarely used for ship-to-ship fire.
Trinity - Dismantled c. 1409, materials used for Trinity Royal
Goodgrace (c. 1400)
Le Carake (ex-Genoese Sancta Maria & Sancta Brigida, captured 1409)
Christopher 5 (1410/12) - Holk (similar to a cog)
Trinity Royal (1416)
Jesus (c. 1416)
George (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416) - To Venice 1424
Marie Hampton (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416)
Marie Sandwich (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416)
Agase (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416) - Wrecked on mudflats c. 1418
Andrew (ex-Genoese carrack Galeas Negre, captured 1417)
Peter (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1417)
Paul (ex-Genoese carrack Vivande, captured 1417)
Christopher Spayne (ex-Genoese Pynele ??, captured 1417) - Sold 1423
Marie Spayne (ex-Spanish ?, captured 1417)
Holigost Spayne [Holy Ghost of Spain] (ex-Spanish Santa Clara, captured 1417)
Grace Dieu (1418) - Lightning and fire, 1439
Grace Dieu (1449) - rebuilt 1473, BU c. 1487
Peter - Abandoned 1462
Mary 48
George
Edward Howard (c. 1466, ex-Portuguese ?, captured 1479)
Governor (1485)
Happy birthday anyway.
