The keel was laid in 1976, and it was launched on 5 May 1977.

Entered the Danish navy on 19 May 1978 and was withdrawn on 31 December 2000.

SEHESTED weighs 260 tons and has a length of 46.0 m, a width of 7.40 m and a draft of 2.45 m.

The crew consisted of 25 men (6 officers and 19 warrant officers and privates)

It could reach a speed of 40 knots with its 3 Rolls Royce Marine Proteus gas turbines of 12,750 hp each and with 2 GM Diesel engines with 800 hp that worked on the 2 outer screws it could sail at 12 knots.

The Willemoes class had a combat power that was on par with a destroyer from World War II.

P547 Sehested was built at Frederikshavn Værft from December 1976 to May 1977

SEHESTED was transferred to the Danish Museum of Defence History and Ships on Holmen is today responsible for its maintenance and display.

Torpedo missile boat P547 SEHESTED.

The torpedo missile boat SEHESTED, together with its 9 sister ships, formed the so-called Willemoes class in the years 1975-2000 – also called the “Ships of the Sea Heroes” after their names:

The ships were designed by the Royal Danish Navy in collaboration with the company Lürssen in West Germany and the Naval Materiel Command.

BILLE, BREDAL, HAMMER, HUITFELDT, KRIEGER, NORBY, RODSTEEN, SEHESTED, SUENSON and WILLEMOES.

SEHESTED is named after Admiral Christen Thomesen Sehested (1664-1736).

Christian Sehested was known, among other things, from the battles for Stralsund and Rügen during the Great Northern War and as the first commander of the newly established naval cadet academy in 1701.