Engineering:Hvalur 9 RE-399

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Hvalur 9 at pier in Reykjavík along with other members of the Hvalur HF fleet.
History
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Name: Hvalur 9
Owner: Hvalur hf.
Port of registry: Iceland
Builder: Langesund Mekaniske Verksted, Langesund, Norway
Launched: 1952
Acquired: 1966
Homeport: Reykjavík
Identification:
Notes: Operated by the Coast Guard as ICGV Týr during the 1973 Cod War
History
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Name: ICGV Týr
Operator: Icelandic Coast Guard
Commissioned: 1972
Decommissioned: 1973
Fate: Returned in 1973
Notes: Leased during the second Cod War
General characteristics
Type: Whaler
Length: 51.15 m (167 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam: 9.06 m (29 ft 9 in)
Draft: 5.65 m (18 ft 6 in)
Propulsion: 1398 kW steam engine
Speed: 17 kt

Hvalur 9 RE-399 is an Icelandic whaling ship built in 1952 in Norway. It has been a part of the Icelandic whaling fleet operated and owned by the company Hvalur hf. since 1966.[citation needed]

In 1972 and again in 1973 she was requisitioned by the Icelandic Coast Guard, repainted, renamed Týr, after the god from the Norse mythology, and armed with a 57 mm gun and subsequently used to cut the fishing gear from foreign fishing vessels fishing illegally (according to Icelandic law) in a newly claimed fishery zone during the Second Cod War. During her service in the Coast Guard she was nicknamed Hval-Týr (English: Whale-Týr) by the Icelanders and Moby Dick by the British.[1]

Between 1987 and 2006, while commercial whaling ceased in Iceland, the ship remained unused at pier but the recommencement of whaling in Iceland brought it back into action.[citation needed] As of 2022, the ship remains active.[2][3]

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