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ICELANDIC COAST GUARD (ICELAND)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary patrols of interwar period

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Esja 1939 // 1939   1347   10     stricken 1951

less than 1000 BRT:

Sudin (1895, 811, 1926 - 1945), Thor (1922, 226, 1930 - 1949), Ægir (1929, 507, 1930 - 1968), Sæbjörg (1937, 98, 1937-8/1965), Óðinn, 1959- Gautur (1938, 72, 1938-1964)

Project history: Former trawlers purchased and used for fishery protection service.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Ægir 1953

 

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