HDMS Enhiørningen (1609)

	Enhiørningen (left), together with HDMS Lamprenen in a modern artist's conception
History
Denmark–Norway
Name	Enhiørningen
Builder	Copenhagen
Laid down	1609
Fate	Abandoned, 1620
General characteristics
Class and type	frigate
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged

Enhiørningen or Enhjørningen (Danish for Unicorn) was a frigate built in Copenhagen for the navy of Denmark–Norway.

Enhiørningen was the ship of Danish-Norwegian explorer Jens Munk on his journey to the Hudson Bay i 1619-1620 (together with the navy yacht Lamprenen). Ships and crews overwintered in the mouth of Churchill River.^[1] All but Jens Munk and two sailors succumbed to scurvy during the winter. The three survivors returned to Bergen with Lamprenen and abandoned Enhiørningen. The cannons of the ship were found in the 18th century^[2] and the remains of the wreck itself rediscovered in 1964.^[3]

Contemporary illustration of Munk's ships in Hudson Bay. From the book *Navigatio septemtrionalis* (1624).

References

^ Munk, Jens (1624). Navigatio Septentrionalis. Copenhagen.
^ Christiansen, Henrik (2010). Orlogsflådens skibe gennem 500 år (in Danish). Copenhagen: Statens Forsvarshistoriske Museum. p. 56. ISBN 978 87 89022 78 9.
^ Hansen, Thorkild (1965). Jens Munk (in Danish). Copenhagen: Gyldendal.

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[1] Munk, Jens (1624). Navigatio Septentrionalis. Copenhagen.

[2] Christiansen, Henrik (2010). Orlogsflådens skibe gennem 500 år (in Danish). Copenhagen: Statens Forsvarshistoriske Museum. p. 56. ISBN 978 87 89022 78 9.

[3] Hansen, Thorkild (1965). Jens Munk (in Danish). Copenhagen: Gyldendal.

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