HDMS Peder Skram

Missiltorpedobåden Sehested

The keel was laid in 1976, and she was launched on 5 May 1977. Commissioned into the fleet on 19 May 1978 and decommissioned on 31 December 2000. SEHESTED weighs 260 tonnes and has a length of 46.0 m, a beam of 7.40 m and a draught of 2.45 m. The crew consisted of 25 men (6 officers and 19 NCOs and ratings). She could reach a speed of 40 knots with her 3 Rolls Royce Marine Proteus gas turbines of 12,750 hp each, and on 2 GM diesel engines of 800 hp driving the 2 outer propellers she could sail at 12 knots. The Willemoes class had a fighting power on a par with a Second World War destroyer. P547 Sehested was built at Frederikshavn Værft from December 1976 to May 1977. SEHESTED was handed over to the Statens Forsvarshistoriske Museum, and Skibene på Holmen is today responsible for her maintenance and display. The torpedo missile boat P547 SEHESTED. From 1975 to 2000, the torpedo missile boat SEHESTED and her 9 sister ships made up the so-called Willemoes class – also called "the naval heroes' ships" after their names: The ships were designed by the Orlogsværftet naval dockyard in cooperation with the Lürssen company in West Germany and the Navy Materiel Command. BILLE, BREDAL, HAMMER, HUITFELDT, KRIEGER, NORBY, RODSTEEN, SEHESTED, SUENSON and WILLEMOES. SEHESTED is named after Admiral Christen Thomesen Sehested (1664-1736). Christian Sehested was known, among other things, from the battles for Stralsund and Rügen during the Great Northern War and as the first head of the naval cadet academy newly founded in 1701.