Fylla in Copenhagen, 1888
History
Denmark
Name	Fylla
Builder	Royal Naval Shipyard, Copenhagen
Yard number	51
Laid down	13 June 1861
Launched	1 July 1862
Commissioned	1863
Decommissioned	3 Sept. 1894
Homeport	Copenhagen
Identification	Call sign: GRBV
Fate	Broken up 1903
General characteristics
Class and type	Steam gunboat
Displacement	498/560 Ton
Length	47.8 m (157 ft)
Beam	7.9 m (26 ft)
Draught	3.1 m (10 ft)
Propulsion	Baumgarten & Burmeister 150nHP
Sail plan	Top sail schooner
Complement	84
Armament	1863: 1 60 lb cannon, 2 30 lb cannons 1864:1 60 lb cannon, 2 18 lb rifled cannons 1885: 6 97 mm cannons, 2 37 mm revolver cannons

HDMS Fylla was a Danish gunboat, launched in 1862. Fylla was built entirely in wood, rigged as a topsail schooner and equipped with a steam-driven propeller. The propeller could be raised up into a well when under sail. Original armament was turning cannons placed in the midline of the ship, but later replaced by smaller cannons on each side of the ship.^[1]

Service

Plan of gun deck, after rearmament in 1882

Fylla's first voyage was to the Danish West Indies in 1863, but she was called back in 1864 because of the second Schleswig war. During most of her career Fylla served as inspection ship and coast guard around the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland, but also as fisheries inspection ship in the North Sea in 1880-81. Major repairs and rearmament with more, but smaller cannons, in 1881-82.^[1] Fylla was decommissioned in 1894 and broken up in 1903.

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