Action of 4 June 1565
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Action of 4 June 1565 | |||||||
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Part of Northern Seven Years' War | |||||||
![]() Admiral Herluf Trolle in 1551 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Units involved | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
49 ships (including merchant ships) | 33 ships | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown | 700 men |
This battle took place on 4 June 1565 between an allied fleet of 33 Danish and Lübecker ships, under Trolle, and a Swedish fleet of around 49 ships, under Klas Horn. Afterward, the Danes retired to Køge Bay, south of Copenhagen, where Trolle died of his wounds on 25 June. His second, Jørgen Brahe, died of fever on 28 June.
Ships involved
Denmark-Norway/Lübeck
- Jegermesther 90 (flag)
- Merkurius (Second in command Jørgen Brahe)
- Svenske Jomfru (Erik Rud)
- 30 others
Sweden
- St Erik 90 (flag)
- Finska Svan 82
- Svenska Hektor 87 (Per Bagge)
- Herkules 81
- Engel 49
- Pelikan
- Troilus 44 (Shenk)
- Fuchs (ex-Lübecker)?
- 41 or so others
References
- Kloth, Herbert: "Lübecks Seekriegswesen in der Zeit des nordischen 7-jährigen Krieges 1563–1570", Zeitschrift des Vereines für lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Vol. 21 (1923), pp. 1–51, 185–256 plus Vol. 22 (1923–25), pp. 121–52 & 325–79
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