ICGV Óðinn

History
Iceland
Name:	ICGV Óðinn
Launched:	September 1959
Commissioned:	January 1960
Decommissioned:	2006
Status:	Museum ship
General characteristics
Type:	offshore patrol vessel
Displacement:	910 long tons (925 t)
Length:	208 ft 11 in (63.68 m)
Beam:	33 ft (10 m)
Draught:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion:	B&W V.B.F 62 x 2 2096 kW
Speed:	18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement:	19
Sensors and processing systems:	Surface Search: Sperry; E/F-band Navigation: Furuno; I-band
Armament:	40 mm Bofors L60 MKIII (57 mm Hotchkiss until 1989)
Aircraft carried:	One helicopter

ICGV Óðinn is a decommissioned offshore patrol vessel formerly operated by the Icelandic Coast Guard. She is the oldest ship in the coastguard's fleet, and it is believed that her Burmeister & Wain engines are the only such engines that are still serviceable in the world today. Since her withdrawal from active duty, she has served as a floating exhibit at the Víkin museum in Reykjavík Harbour. The engines are maintained, and still operative as of June 2011.

References

In film

ICGV Óðinn was used as scenery in the film Flags of Our Fathers, when it was filmed in Iceland the summer of 2005. She rescued one of the landing boats used in the film, as it was about to be thrown into a cliff.

Previous Óðinn's

• The first ICGV Óðinn was the second Icelandic Coast Guard vessel that was commissioned and the first purposely built as a patrol ship. She was built in Denmark in 1925 and arrived in Iceland on 23 June 1926. A steel ship with a displacement of 512 tonnes, she was armed with two 57mm cannon. As a result of severe financial mismanagement of the Icelandic Government she was sold cheaply to Sweden in 1936.

• The second ICGV Óðinn was built on Akureyri in 1938. She was only 85 tonnes and made of oak. When the current Óðinn was commissioned she was renamed Gautur which is one of Óðinn's pseudonyms. She was decommissioned in 1964.

External links

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• http://www.lhg.is (in Icelandic)