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Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Danish ironclad Iver Hvitfeldt to be rearmed according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1907-1908 dated no. 5

An item referred to the Mitteilungen aus dem Giebiete des Seewesens reporting that the Danish ironclad Iver Hvitfeldt was to be rearmed. The armament consisting of 2-26cm guns, 4-13cm guns, 2-5,7cm guns and 10-3,7cm guns was to be replaced by 2-26cm guns, 10-5,7cm guns and 1-3,5cm machineguns.(1)

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1. Laid down at Navy Yard Copenhagen, Denmark on 9 April 1884, launched on 14 April 1886, commissioned on 1 June 1887 and sold to be broken up on 26 February 1919.