''Den Røde Løve''
[Four ships are listed in the Danish Naval Museu]
Skibregister
with the name ''Røde Løve'' - this one from 1596 and later ones from 1611, 1622 and 1666 - but without further details was a 70-ton ship of the
Dano-Norwegian navy
The history of the Danish navy began with the founding of a joint Dano-Norwegian navy on 10 August 1510, when King John appointed his vassal Henrik Krummedige to become "chief captain and head of all our captains, men and servants whom we now ha ...
. It served during the early 17th century, when it was recorded as carrying 6 guns.
The name is Danish for "The Red Lion"; it was also known as ''Løven'' ("the Lion").
[Gosch, C.C.A. ]
Danish Arctic expeditions, 1605 to 1620
'. 1897.
The ship was considered slow and ill-equipped for sailing close to the wind. It was considered an older ship on a naval list from 1611.
''Den Røde Løve'' served as
Godske Lindenov
Godske Christoffersen Lindenov or Lindenow (d. 1612 Copenhagen) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was a commander on one of King Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland.
Early life
He was of the noble family Lindenov of Linders ...
's ship during the 1605
Hans Køning expedition
John Cunningham (; – 9 December 1651) was a Scottish nobleman, explorer, Dano-Norwegian naval captain, and Governor of Finnmark.
Biography
In 1605, Cunningham became captain of the 60-ton Danish naval ship . Along with the 70-ton an ...
to
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
and
John Cunningham's during the
Lindenov expedition the next year.
These expeditions had been organized by King
Christian IV
Christian IV (12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 until his death in 1648. His reign of 59 years and 330 days is the longest in Scandinavian history.
A member of the H ...
in order to reestablish contact with the
lost Norse settlements on Greenland and then to exploit the silver and gold ore supposedly returned by the first expedition. There was a
third expedition in 1607, but ''Den Røde Løve'' was not sent.
See also
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Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland
Christian IV's expeditions were sent by King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway to Greenland and Arctic waterways during the years 1605–1607. The expeditions were commissioned in order to locate the lost Eastern Norse Settlement and reassert sove ...
*
Dano-Norwegian Navy
The history of the Danish navy began with the founding of a joint Dano-Norwegian navy on 10 August 1510, when King John appointed his vassal Henrik Krummedige to become "chief captain and head of all our captains, men and servants whom we now ha ...
*
Danish colonization of Greenland
Denmark and the former real union of Denmark–Norway had a colonial empire from the 17th through to the 20th centuries, large portions of which were found in the Americas. Denmark and Norway in one form or another also maintained land claims ...
Notes
References
Ships of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy
1600s ships
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