HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571)

	HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen In Halifax, Nova Scotia for the 100 year anniversary celebrations of the Royal Canadian Navy
History
Kingdom of Denmark
Name	Ejnar Mikkelsen
Namesake	Ejnar Mikkelsen
Builder	Karstensens Skibsværft.; Hull is built at the Polish Stocznia Pólnocna (Northern Shipyard) in Gdansk;
Launched	1 June 2007
Commissioned	16 January 2009
Identification	MMSI number: 220429000; Callsign: OVFH;
Status	in active service, as of 2010
General characteristics
Class & type	Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessel
Displacement	1,720 long tons (1,748 t)
Length	LOA 71.8 m (235 ft 7 in); LWL 61.0 m (200 ft 2 in);
Beam	14.6 m (47 ft 11 in)
Draft	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	2 × MAN B&W Diesel ALPHA 8L27/38 generating 2,720 kW (3,650 hp) each
Speed	Less than 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Range	3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km)
Boats & landing; craft carried	1 × SB90E for Search and rescue; 1 × 7m (60 HP) RHIB; 1 × 4.8m (45 HP) RHIB;
Complement	18 + aircrew and transients (Accommodation for up to 43 in total)
Sensors &; processing systems	1 × Terma Scanter 4100 surface and air search radar; 3 × Furuno navigation radars; SAAB CEROS 200 radar and optronic tracking system and CWI illumination radar;
Armament	1 × 76 mm Gun Mk M/85 LvSa; 2 × 12.7 mm Heavy Machine Gun M/01 LvSa; RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile surface-to-air missiles; MU90 Impact ASW torpedo;
Aviation facilities	Aft helicopter deck, no hangar

HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen is a Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] 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.

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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.^[1] 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.

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