HDMS Knud Rasmussen explained

HDMS Knud Rasmussen is a Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel.[1] [2] [3] [4] Knud Rasmussen and her sister ships normally operate in the waters around Greenland. HDMS Knud Rasmussen is capable of breaking through ice up to 80 cm thick.[5]

Knud Rasmussen participated in Operation Nanook 2010, in August 2010, and 2014, in Baffin Bay and the Davis Strait, with Canadian and American vessels.[6] [7]

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  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. Web site: Danish Navy’s Knud Rasmussen-class Patrol Ships Are Built for Icy Greenland Waters . 2022-12-18 . Defense Media Network . en-US.
  6. News: 100816-G-4702D-012 Operation Nanook . . 2010-09-22 . dead . https://www.webcitation.org/5swDTrTFB?url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninth_cg_district/5011733834/ . 2010-09-22.
  7. News: Arctic Cooperation – Canadian MCDV, HMCS Shawinigan, exercises with the Danish ice-resistant Patrol Vessel, the Knud Rasmussen. Canadian American Strategic Review. October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141017041014/http://www.casr.ca/doc-news-navy-denmark-canada-1.htm. 2014-10-17. live . This was the start of a 'cooperation exercise' (SAMEX) [3] between the Knud Rasmussen and HMCS Shawinigan. The emergency call was simulated only for the purposes of the exercise. The day's program also featured a replenishment-at-sea (RAS) exercise, crew exchanges, casualty exercises aboard both vessels, and, later, a photography session..

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