HDMS Lindormen

The Danish ironclad Lindormen was a monitor built for the Royal Danish Navy in the 1860s. She was scrapped in 1907.

Description
The ship was 66.62 m long overall with a beam of 11.99 m. She had a draft of 4.44 m and displaced 2048 t. Her crew consisted of 150 officers and enlisted men.

Lindormen had two horizontal direct-acting steam engines, built by Burmeister & Wain, each driving one propeller shaft. The engines were rated at a total of 1500 ihp for a designed speed of 12.5 knots. The ship carried a maximum of 125 t of coal that gave her a range of 1400 nmi at 8.5 kn.

She was initially armed with two Armstrong 227 mm rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns mounted in a single turret. In 1876 a pair of 76 mm RML guns were added. Four years later a pair of 87 mm rifled breech-loading guns were also added and the 76-millimeter guns were replaced by another pair of 87-millimeter breech-loading guns in 1885. The 227-millimeter guns were ultimately replaced by a pair of quick-firing 150 mm guns.

The ship had a complete waterline armored belt that was 127 mm thick. The gun turret was protected by 140 mm armor plates. The conning tower armor was also 127 millimeters thick.

Construction and career
Lindormen, named for a serpent from Norse legend, was laid down by the Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen on 20 July 1866, launched on 8 August 1868 and completed on 15 August 1869. She was stricken from the Navy List on 29 June 1907 and sold for scrap. The ship was broken up in the Netherlands.