ICGV Þór

1 × 4.0 cm L/60 Bofors Mk3

Lloyd 's Register of Shipping

IMO no. 9426893

The coast guard ship Thor ( Þór Isl ) is since 2011 the flagship of the Icelandic Coast Guard.

The patrol boat was built in Chile. With 93.8 meters long, 16 meters wide, it outperforms the other ships of the Icelandic Coast Guard, Aegir and Tyr, each 71.15 meters long and ten meters wide, with a pull of 56 tons, considerably.

Architectural History

The decision to build the ship hit the Icelandic Government on 4 March 2005. The exact definition of the requirements was made on 31 September 2005. The tender of the contract took place on 12 January 2006. The contract for construction was awarded the Chilean ASMAR shipyard on 20 September 2006. With the construction of the ship was started on 16 October 2007. The launching of the ship on April 29, 2009. Here, the ship was christened with the name Thor. Thor is a god of Norse mythology.

On 27 February 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 shook the Chilean coast, followed by a tsunami. The ASMAR shipyard was very badly damaged, the Thor survived the earthquake and tsunami pretty good. Due to the damage to the shipyard, the completion of the Thor but delayed by one year. The ship was then transferred to 29 September 2011., To then be made ​​on October 27, 2011 in Reykjavík in a solemn ceremony in the presence of the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson and the Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson in the service.

Same predecessor

The Icelandic Coast Guard for operation in the past, ships named Thor: The first Thor existed from 1920, the second from 1930, the third ship of the same name from 1951.

Technical details

The crew of the Thor consists of 18 men and women, with up to 30 other people can be taken on board, respectively, are carried for these life-saving equipment. The said 18 men, however, are intended only as a skeleton crew. The ship reached supplied by Rolls- Royce engine at a speed of up to 19.5 knots and a towing capacity of up to 120 tons.

For its area of ​​operations, such as search and rescue missions, the ship has a fire-fighting equipment and equipment for combating oil spills. The level- FiFi 1 firefighting equipment employs two fire monitors on the cargo deck. Also, a plant for the supply of a helicopter in flight is ( reference: In-Flight Refuling ) installed in the rear ship area. In addition to this can be found in the rear of a nearly 300 -square-foot cargo deck that is designed for a load of up to 2 tons / m and has a duty crane.

As the ship must operate in sub-arctic and even in some Arctic waters around Iceland has the hull it over the ice class 1B, what does it mean to ice thickness to 0.6 m can operate.

For the perception of sovereign and police duties in 2012, the ship is equipped with a 40 mm gun Bofors company.

Gallery

The arrival of Thor in Reykjavík on 27 October 2011

Detail: The suitable for ramming bow, under the Kunststofframmschutz the crest of the Coast Guard

Detail: radio masts and the radome; the ship has an S -band radar and two X-band radars.

Detail: in the middle of the powerful ship crane of MacGregor; right one of the two rescue and assault boats of the type Norsafe Magnum 750

The officers of the ship to greet the Icelandic president and the interior minister, who oversees the Coast Guard belongs; Previously: 3 of 6 containers with 25 -person Viking liferaft

Overlooking the rear of the Thor; the 300 - square-meter cargo deck has a load capacity of 2 tons / m