Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Duck !!

Though the weather forecast for today was threatening, we woke to blue skies and lighter winds than expected, so we headed to to the docks nearby for a canal boat tour.



(I'll spare you photos of previously posted sites viewed from water level)

The dock we launched from was distinctly more pedestrian that the Royal Family's modest boathouse.


This is the HDMS Peder Skram, a now retired frigate of the Royal Danish Navy responsible for what is now known as the "Oops Missle". In 1982, it accidentally fired a Harpoon missle which skimmed the water for over 30km, narrowly missing several loaded ferries,  severed several power lines and destroyed 4 Danish vacation cottages...
No one was injured in the incident, but the Cold War was never the same.






And the title ?


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