Personnel Profile
Peter Tordenskjold
Danish-Norwegian naval officer
Peter Tordenskjold served in a role connected with the Danish-Norwegian Navy during eighteenth century. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with aggressive sea service and northern maritime warfare. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Peter Tordenskjold belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.