Battle of Heligoland (1864)
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The Battle of Heligoland was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second Schleswig War, between a Danish squadron led by Commodore Edouard Suenson and a joint Austro-Prussian squadron commanded by the Aus
The naval battle of Heligoland in 1864 Josef Carl Berthold Püttner
The Austro-Prussian Squadron at Cuxhaven after its Defeat off Heligoland, 1864. Schwarzenberg and Radetzky.
The memorial to Edouard Suenson at Nyboder in Copenhagen
Jylland, preserved as a museum ship
HDMS Jylland
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Jylland is a Danish frigate, and is both a screw-propelled steam frigate and a sailship. It took part in the Battle of Heligoland on 9 May 1864, and is preserved as a museum ship in the small town of
Battle of Heligoland (1864)
…in the North Sea, Tegetthoff joined a Prussian aviso and a pair of gunboats. To oppose him, Suenson had available the steam frigates Niels Juel and Jylland and the corvette Hejmdal. On the morning of 9 May, the two squadrons encountered each other off the island of Heligoland, then controlled by neutral…
1866 painting of Jylland by Anton Melbye
Stern of Jylland in 2013
Jylland's hull in dry-dock