HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571) explained

HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen is a Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Launched in November 2007, she is the second vessel of the Knud Rasmussen class. The normal patrol area of the Ejnar Mikkelsen, and her sister ships, will be the waters around Greenland.

The and the Ejnar Mikkelsen participated with Danish air elements in sovereignty and Search and Rescue exercises off Greenland's west coast in September 2009.^[5] The vessels patrol took them to the Nares Strait, close to Hans Island, the approaches to the Northwest Passage, and to Lancaster Sound. In Lancaster Sound they joined in a Search and Rescue exercise with the Canadian Coast Guard vessel the .

External links

• A five second clip of the ship in a Greenpeace video.
• Landing a helicopter on the ship.

Notes and References

1. News: Knud Rasmussen commissioned: First new Arctic Offshore Patrol Vessel Commissioned . 2008-02-18 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090208101236/http://www.navalhistory.dk/english/navynews/2008/0220_KnudRasmussen.htm . 2009-02-08 . dead.
2. News: Knud Rasmussen Class (2008-) . 2007-11-19 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090401233457/http://www.navalhistory.dk/english/TheShips/Classes/KnudRasmussen_Class(2007).htm . 2009-04-01 . dead.
3. News: Second OPV in Skagen: Both new Off Shore Patrol Vessels together for the first time . 2007-11-19 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090208101130/http://www.navalhistory.dk/english/navynews/2007/1009_SecondOPVarrived.htm . 2009-02-08 . dead.
4. News: An Overview of Current, On-Going Danish Naval projects 2005-2009 Knud Rasmussen class Ice-Resistant OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel) . May 2008 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090919080901/http://www.casr.ca/id-danish-naval-projects-rasmussen.htm . 2009-09-19 . 2009-08-02 . dead.
5. News: Update: Denmark's Arctic Assets and Canada's Response — Northern Deployment 2009: Danish Navy & CCG in the High Arctic . September 2009 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20091007103337/http://www.casr.ca/id-arcticviking-northern-deployment-09.htm . 2009-10-07 . dead.