page_title: Royal Danish Navy
section_title: Naval Operational Logistic Site
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Danish Navy / Danish Navy organization / Naval Operational Logistic Site
caption_attribution_description: English: Naval base Frederikshavn, front gate Dansk: Flådestation Frederikshavn, hovedvagten
context_page_description: The Royal Danish Navy is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese territorial waters. Other tasks include surveillance, search and rescue, icebreaking, oil spill recovery and prevention as well as contributions to international tasks and forces.
  During the period 1509–1814, when Denmark was in a union with Norway, the Danish Navy was part of the Dano-Norwegian Navy. Until the copenhagenization of the navy in 1801, and again in 1807, the navy was a major strategic influence in the European geographical area, but since then its size and influence has drastically declined with a change in government policy. Despite this, the navy is now equipped with a number of large state-of-the-art vessels commissioned since the end of the Cold War. This can be explained by its strategic location as the NATO member controlling access to the Baltic.
  Danish Navy ships carry the prefix KDM in Danish, but this is translated to HDMS in English. Denmark is one of several NATO member states whose navies do not deploy submarines.
context_section_description: The Naval Operational Logistic Support Structure (OPLOG), including the naval bases in Frederikshavn and Korsør as well as several naval stations.
caption: Naval Base Frederikshavn
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