HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571)
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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 ''Knud Rasmussen'' class is a class of offshore patrol vessels operating in the Royal Danish Navy from 2008. Built to replace the s on a one-for-one basis, the ''Knud Rasmussen''-class vessels are significantly larger, enabling patrols further ...
. 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 Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search ...
exercises off Greenland's west coast in September 2009. The vessels patrol took them to the Nares Strait, close to
Hans Island Hans Island ( Inuktitut and kl, Tartupaluk, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; da, Hans Ø; french: Île Hans) is an island in the very centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of ...
, 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 .


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A five second clip of the ship in a Greenpeace video.

Landing a helicopter on the ship.
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