HDMS Sehested

Sehested docked at Holmen Naval Base, Copenhagen
History
Denmark
Name	Sehested
Namesake	Christen Thomesen Sehested
Builder	Frederikshavn Værft A/S
Launched	5 May 1977
Commissioned	19 May 1978
Decommissioned	31 December 2000
Status	Museum ship
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General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Willemoes-class fast attack craft
Displacement	260 long tons (264 t)
Length	46 m (150 ft 11 in)
Beam	7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)
Draught	2.45 m (8 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	3 × 12,750 shp (9,508 kW) Rolls Royce Marine Proteus gas turbines 2 × 800 shp (597 kW) General Motors 8V71 diesel engines 3 × variable-pitch propellers
Speed	40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph) (gas turbine) 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (diesel engines)
Range	400 nmi (740 km; 460 mi) at 36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Complement	25
Armament	1 × LvSa 76 mm gun 8 × Harpoon SSM 2 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 6 × 103 mm (4 in) rockets 16 × mines 12 × Seagnat launchers 2 × Stinger SAM

HDMS Sehested (P 547) is a Willemoes-class fast attack craft of the Royal Danish Navy which was in commission from 1978 until 2000. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a museum ship, part of the Royal Danish Naval Museum. The ship is named after Christen Thomesen Sehested, a Danish vice-admiral during the Great Northern War (1709-1721).