HDMS Trost

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} Two ships named ''Trost'' served with the [[Dano-Norwegian navy]] between 1602 and 1653. *Trost or Hunden Trost (1602) was a little ship with a crew of 48 men and 16 cannon. She was decommissioned in 1621.<ref>Record Card for [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005044156/http://www.orlogsmuseet.dk/T/pages/Trost%20(Hunden%20Trost)(1602).htm Trost (1602)]</ref> *Trost (1625) was a pinnace with a crew of 68 and 20 (or 16?) cannon which served from 1625 to 1653.<ref>Record card for [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005044803/http://www.orlogsmuseet.dk/T/pages/Trost(1625).htm Trost(1625)]</ref>

The name is German rather than Danish; the vessel is sometimes referenced in translation as the ''Comfort'' or the ''Consolation''. The name, however, probably refers to one of the Queen [[Anne Catherine of Brandenburg]]'s lapdogs and the vessel is also referenced as ''Hunden'' ("Dog") and ''Skjodehunden'' ("Lapdog").<ref name="gosh">{{cite book |last=Gosch |first=C.C.A. |url=https://archive.org/stream/danisharcticexp00unkngoog/danisharcticexp00unkngoog_djvu.txt |title=Danish Arctic expeditions, 1605 to 1620 |date=1897}}</ref>

==''Trost'' (1602)== {{Infobox ship  |infobox_caption=''Trost'' (1602) |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image= |image_caption= }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country= |flag= |name= |owner= |ordered= |builder= |original_cost= |laid_down= |launched=1602 |acquired= |commissioned= |decommissioned=1621 |in_service= |out_of_service= |renamed= |struck= |reinstated= |honours= |honors= |captured= |fate= |notes= }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class= |tonnage= |length= |beam= |draught= |draft= |hold_depth= |propulsion= |sail_plan= |complement=48 |armament=16 guns |notes= }} }} ''Trost'' served as [[John Cunningham (explorer)|John Cunningham]]'s flagship during the 1605 [[Hans Køning expedition]] to [[Danish colonization of Greenland|Greenland]]; [[Godske Lindenov]]'s flagship during [[Lindenov expedition|his expedition]] the next year; and [[Carsten Richardson]]'s flagship during [[Richardson expedition|his failed expedition]] the year after that. [[King Christian IV]]'s [[Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland|expeditions to Greenland]] had been organized to reestablish contact with the [[Norse colonization of Greenland|lost Norse settlements]] on Greenland and then to exploit the silver and gold ore supposedly returned by the first expedition.

==''Trost'' (1625)== {{Infobox ship |infobox_caption=''Trost'' (1625) |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image= |image_caption= }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country= |flag= |name= |owner= |ordered= |builder=David Balfour |original_cost= |laid_down= |launched=1625 |acquired= |commissioned= |decommissioned= |in_service= |out_of_service=1653 |renamed= |struck= |reinstated= |honours= |honors= |captured= |fate= |notes= }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class= |tonnage=60-tons |length= |beam= |draught= |draft= |hold_depth= |propulsion= |sail_plan= |complement=68 |armament=16–20 guns |notes= }} }} ''Trost'' served from 1625 to 1653.<ref name="gosh"/> The ship was considered a fast one and was constructed by David Balfour (b. 1574), a Scotsman employed by the Dano-Norwegian navy from 1597 to 1634.<ref name="gosh"/>

==See also== * [[Danish colonization of Greenland]]

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