HDMS ABSALON (L16)

HDMS Absalon (L16) and her sister ship HDMS Esbern Snare (L17) are the biggest ships ever to serve in the Royal Danish Navy (RDN), and are the two members of the Absalon-classcommand and support ships. HDMS Absalon is the flagship of the Royal Danish Navy.

Builder: Odense Staalskibsværft Laid down: November 2003 Launched: 30 January 2005  Commissioned: 2007  Homeport: Naval Station Korsør

Class and type: Absalon-class command and support ship
Displacement: 6,300 tonnes
Length: 137.6 m Beam: 19.5 m Draft: 6.3 m
Propulsion: 2 × MTU 8000 M70 diesel engines; two shafts
22,300 bhp (16.4 MW) Speed: >28 knots (52 km/h)
Range: 9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)

USS MOUNT WHITNEY (LCC 20)

Kieler Förde inbound for BALTOPS 2011 2011-06-03

US Blue Ridge Class Command ship / flagship of the United States
Navy's Sixth Fleet.
*1971 Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
Commissioned: 16 January 1971
Displacement: 18,400 tons full load
Length: 194.00m Beam: 32.90m Draft: 9.06m full load
Propulsion: Two boilers, one geared turbine
Capacity: 930 Complement: 170 officers and enlisted men; and 155 Military Sealift Command civilian sailors
Armament: Two Phalanx CIWS, Two 25 mm Bushmaster cannons, Four .50 cal.machine guns,Mark 36 SRBOC chaff rockets
Aircraft carried: One helicopter, SH-60 Knight