Tom Snare | Snare Drum | snare drum | HDMS Lougen (1941) | HDMS Lougen (1791) | HDMS Lougen | HDMS Holsteen | HDMS Esbern Snare | HDMS ''Esbern Snare'' | HDMS ''Akamalik'', a Royal Greenland vessel, anchored in Sisimiut |
The ships were named after two brothers, Esbern Snare and archbishop Absalon who led the naval campaigns in the 12th century against the Wends, a group of pagan Slavs in northern Germany.
A failed rescue operation was carried out by the Danish frigate HDMS Esbern Snare and a Seychellois Coast Guard patrol boat on 26 January.