HDMS Iver Huitfeldt (F361)
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HDMS ''Iver Huitfeldt'' (F361) is a in the
Royal Danish Navy The Royal Danish Navy (, ) is the Naval warfare, sea-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Denmark, Danish territorial waters (incl. Faroe Islands and ...
. The ship is named after
Iver Huitfeldt Iver Huitfeldt (5 December 1665 – 4 October 1710) was a Danish-Norwegian naval officer who was killed in action, when he commanded the ship '' Dannebroge'' during the Great Northern War. Biography Iver Huitfeldt was born in the Norwegian town ...
, a 17th-century Danish
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.


Design

The design is shared across the three ship class.


Construction and service history

She was laid down in June 2008 and launched in March 2010 by
Odense Steel Shipyard Odense Steel Shipyard () was a Danish shipyard company located in Odense. It was best known for building container ships for its parent group, Maersk, A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, including the Mærsk E-class container ship, Mærsk E class in ...
,
Odense Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (after Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2025, the city proper had a population of 185,480 while Odense Municipality had a population of 210, ...
. She was commissioned in January 2011. In 2020, the ''Iver Huitfeldt'' was attached to the
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, which included the
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s , , and the
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s , , and . They left
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on 17 January 2020. She participated in Operation Agenor in August 2020, to ensure free compliance at sea. On 29 January 2024, ''Iver Huitfeldt'' departed from Korsør naval base in Denmark for the
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, to assist the US-led coalition in safeguarding commercial traffic against
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.


Gallery

File:F361 Iver Huitfeldt.jpg, HDMS ''Iver Huitfeldt'' at
Århus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...
, January 2012. File:Iver Huitfeldt 6671.JPG, HDMS ''Iver Huitfeldt'', June 2012. File:Iver Huitfeldt 6467.JPG, HDMS ''Iver Huitfeldt'', June 2012. File:F361 Iver Huitfeldt in Korsør.JPG, HDMS ''Iver Huitfeldt'' at
Korsør Korsør is a town in Zealand (Denmark), Zealand, Denmark. It is located in Slagelse Municipality. Until 2007 Korsør was the seat of Korsør Municipality. The town is located west of Slagelse, north-west of Skælskør and connects to Nyborg thr ...
, May 2015. File:180609-N-TJ319-0139 (42734546251).jpg, HDMS ''Iver Huitfeldt'' alongside during BALTOPS 2018.


References

Iver Huitfeldt-class frigates Ships built in Odense 2010 ships {{Denmark-mil-ship-stub