HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen
2007 Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessel
HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen is a Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel.
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.
Operational history
The HDMS Hvidbjørnen and the Ejnar Mikkelsen participated with Danish air elements in sovereignty and Search and Rescue exercises off Greenland's west coast in September 2009.
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 CCGS Henry Larsen.
In September 2025, the Ejnar Mikkelsen took part in the NATO Arctic Light exercise off Greenland.
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External links
A five second clip of the ship in a Greenpeace video.
Landing a helicopter on the ship.
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