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    Royal Danish Navy's 500 years birthday



    August the 10 1510 the RDN was created. It's quite good today, but at it's highest it was larger than spanish, dutch and english navies.

    Royal Danish Navy - Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Danish_Navy


    If you are visiting Denmark the next week there are a number of arrangements :

    http://www.flaaden500.dk/


    and no, I have no ****ing clue why it's only in danish

    Just out of curiosity - when did your countrys fleet go from privateers to a state institution ?
    With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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    13 October 1775
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    • #3
      Your navy is puny, and so is your country.
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      • #4
        If it was created in 1510 it was never bigger than the Spanish, British or Dutch navy

        Did you mean Viking times?
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
          Your navy is puny, and so is your country.
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          • #6
            All I know about that period in Danish history I learned from Europa Universalis. You guys were briefly on top... Kalmar Union... Norway and Sweden as your *****es...

            What happened? You could've had class. You could've been a contender! You could've been somebody, instead of the bum of Europe!
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Barnabas View Post
              If it was created in 1510 it was never bigger than the Spanish, British or Dutch navy

              Did you mean Viking times?
              Nope, but dammit if I can find that note for the moment.

              Edit: Please note that I'm talking about government fleet. That incident with the brits and spaniards wasn't gov fleets.
              Last edited by BlackCat; August 8, 2010, 19:47.
              With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                All I know about that period in Danish history I learned from Europa Universalis. You guys were briefly on top... Kalmar Union... Norway and Sweden as your *****es...

                What happened? You could've had class. You could've been a contender! You could've been somebody, instead of the bum of Europe!
                It's the swedes that are the bum of europe Actually, they are also to be blamed for our detour - their envy to our grandness made them go to war with us
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                • #9
                  And kick Danish ass all across the Baltic!


                  I notice that centuries later, the Nazis didn't even bother to invade Sweden but they over-ran Denmark in about 12 hours. Apparently, they must've been more scared of Sweden than the Soviet Union, UK, and US COMBINED!
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                    And kick Danish ass all across the Baltic!


                    I notice that centuries later, the Nazis didn't even bother to invade Sweden but they over-ran Denmark in about 12 hours. Apparently, they must've been more scared of Sweden than the Soviet Union, UK, and US COMBINED!
                    Yeah, the nazis of course was worried and attacked possible enemies, so they attacked denmark and norway, but sweden ? No way. They were a puppet state that was a trusted deliverer of much needed iron ore, ball bearings and other industrial goods.

                    Edit: dammit, totally forgot - the swedes also allowed reinforcements going from occupied norway to finland - sorry.
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                    • #11
                      Hate to break it to ya, but a dude in a rowboat with a scaling knife does not a navy make.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
                        Hate to break it to ya, but a dude in a rowboat with a scaling knife does not a navy make.
                        Well, guess that was the reason we put cannons aboard the rowboats
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                        • #13
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
                            Well, guess that was the reason we put cannons aboard the rowboats

                            I'd love to see someone attempt that. If they fired, would the rowboat just shatter, or spin around like a Catherine Wheel?
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny View Post
                              I'd love to see someone attempt that. If they fired, would the rowboat just shatter, or spin around like a Catherine Wheel?
                              There is a nice drawing of such taking a british ship here :

                              Danske kanonbåde - Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi
                              http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_kanonb%C3%A5de


                              Hope you don't spin and shatter too much
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