The frigate in this image is the HDMS Peder Skram, code named (as you can see) F352. It is named after a 16th Century Danish Admiral. It is now docked in Holmen in Copenhagen, Denmark and functions as a privately owned museum having been saved from scrapping and fully restored. However, it was once a fully functioning part of the Danish navy. It saw 25 years of service and was decommissioned in 1990. It has an interesting history, not least because on 6 September 1982 it accidentally fired a harpoon missile which luckily hit a row of empty cottages (which burnt to the ground). No-one was hurt. Since then it has had the nickname Hovsa Missil or Oops Missile. The exact cause of the malfunction was never found.
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