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Date Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer: 0 1991 Finnpolaris: 0 1977 William Carson: 0 1959 Hans Hedtoft: 95 (all) 1923 Le Raymound: 2+ 1912 Titanic: 1496 1901
The only piece of wreckage ever recovered was a lifebuoy which washed ashore on Iceland and was discovered on 7 October 1959, some nine months after the ship sank. [5] The ship sank with parish registers from parishes of Greenland, which were meant to be deposited in archives in Denmark, causing a major loss for Greenlandic genealogy. [12]
The ship measures 71.1 metres (233 ft 3 in) long with a beam of 10 m (32 ft 10 in) and a draught of 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in). The vessel is powered by two MAN 8L 40/54 diesel engines turning two shafts with Kamewa controllable pitch propellers rated at 9,800 kilowatts (13,200 hp).
Formerly an offshore oil industry service ship named E.R.Vittoria and later GH Endurance, [5] it was bought from United Offshore Support GmbH in September 2021 for 1.7 billion ISK [6] [7] to replace the 46-year old ICGV Týr. [3] It arrived for retrofit in Rotterdam on 11 October and was formally delivered to the Coast Guard on 28 October the ...
The ship is 93.8 metres (308 feet) long overall, a 16 metres (52 feet) wide, and a has a height of 30 metres (98 feet). The maximum speed of the vessel is 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph), while its towing capacity, or bollard pull, is 120 tonnes (120 long tons; 130 short tons).
Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story. JOHN FLESHER. March 1, 2023 at 10:11 AM.
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 ...
A company drilling for natural gas off the coast of northern Israel discovered a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land, the Israel ...