Agdlek-class cutter explained

The Agdlek-class cutter is a ship class of cutters built for and operated by the Royal Danish Navy for patrol duty in the waters of Greenland. The cutters were replaced one for one with the much larger .

These three ice-strengthened vessels are 330 tons, travel at less than 11kn; are crewed by a complement of 14; and are armed by 12.7mm automatic weapons. Normally two vessels will be on station, while the third would be on its way to, returning from, or being serviced in its homeport, back in Denmark.

List of ships

Pennant
number
NameLaunchedCommissionedDecommissioned
Y38630 September 197312 March 197423 April 2008
Y38715 March 197414 May 197425 March 2009
Y38820 October 197826 June 19791 December 2017

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