Katten (Danish Ship)
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''Katten'' was a 20-ton
yacht A yacht () is a sail- or marine propulsion, motor-propelled watercraft made for pleasure, cruising, or racing. There is no standard definition, though the term generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended for overnight use. To be termed a ...
(Danish: ''jagt'') 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 was purchased from Scotland in 1605Orlogsmuseet.
Katten / Grønlandiske Kat (1605)
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and was probably only armed with a few guns. The name is Danish for "Cat"; it was also later known as the ''Grønlandiske Kat'' ("Greenland Cat").Gosch, C.C.A.
Danish Arctic expeditions, 1605 to 1620
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The ship was considered fast and nimble and could be used closer to shore than larger vessels. ''Katten'' served as John Knight'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
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and Anders Nolk's during the Lindenov expedition the next year. She was possibly identical with the ''Greenland Bark'' recorded as accompanying the ''Trost'' on
Carsten Richardson Carsten Richardson was an early 17th-century Holsteinian- Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was the commander of King Christian IV's final expedition to Greenland. Carsten Richardson was in command of one of five ships in the 1606 exp ...
's expedition in 1607. All 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. It participated in Mogens Ulfeld's fleet in 1610.


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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...


References

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