ICGV Óðinn

On 10 July 1960, Óðinn fired on the British trawler Grimsby Town, which was claimed to be fishing within Iceland's 12 mile territorial waters, with two shots hitting Grimsby Town{{'}}s funnel. The Royal Navy frigate {{HMS|Palliser|F94|2}} came up and prevented Óðinn from arresting Grimsby Town.{{cite news |title=British Trawler Hit by Shots |newspaper=The Times |date=12 July 1960 |issue=54821 |page=12}} On 27 April 1963, Óðinn caught the Aberdeen trawler Milwood and after a chase, took the trawler into Reykjavík.{{cite news |title=Gunboat Chase of Trawler |newspaper=The Times |date=29 April 1963 |issue=55687 |page=6}}{{cite news |title=Trawler Detained In Iceland |newspaper=The Times |date=1 May 1963 |issue=55689 |page=12}} Milwood was eventually released in August that year after the trawler's owners paid a bond of £10,000.{{cite news |title=Detained Trawler Reaches Britain |newspaper=The Times |date=2 September 1963 |issue=55795 |page=7}} On 23 October 1963, Óðinn went to the aid of the British trawler Northern Spray, which had run aground off the coast of Iceland, and with the trawler James Barrie, rescued Northern Spray{{'}}s crew and attempted unsuccessfully to refloat the stranded trawler.{{cite news |title=A gift for Icelandic gunboat |newspaper=Navy News |date=August 1964 |page=5 |url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/images/navynews/archivepdfs/1960s/1964/navy-news-august-1964-issue-122.pdf |access-date=31 May 2021}}

On 30 April 1976, during the cod wars, she was rammed in the stern by the British sidewinder trawler Arctic Corsair, after Óðinn had made three attempts to cut the trawl warps.{{cite news |title=Holed trawler "in no danger" after collision |date=1 May 1976 |issue=59693 |newspaper=The Times |page=4}} In 2017, with both vessels museum ships, their bells were exchanged as a gesture of cooperation.{{cite news |title=Cod Wars fishing vessels to exchange bells in cooperation gesture |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-39031301 |access-date=20 December 2019 |work=BBC News |date=20 February 2017}}

The ship was donated to the Hollvinasamtök Óðins in 2008 and it was put on display at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum. In 2014, work on restoring the ship to operational status began and in 2020, the ship sailed from Reykjavík harbour for the first time in more than a decade during an engine test.{{cite news |author1=Hallur Már |title=Óðinn sigldi á ný |url=https://www.mbl.is/200milur/frettir/2020/05/11/odinn_sigldi_a_ny/ |access-date=14 September 2020 |work=Morgunblaðið |date=11 May 2020 |language=is}} In May 2022, Óðinn received an official certificate of seaworthiness from the Icelandic Transport Authority.{{cite news |author1=Guðjón Guðmundsson |title=Siglt til Grindavíkur á hátíð sjómanna |url=https://fiskifrettir.vb.is/siglt-til-grindavikur-a-hatid-sjomanna/ |access-date=12 June 2022 |work=Fiskifréttir |publisher=Viðskiptablaðið |date=9 June 2022 |language=Icelandic}} On 11 June 2022, Óðinn sailed with Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the President of Iceland, and Suzuki Ryotaro, the Japanese ambassador to Iceland, from Reykjavík to Grindavík for the official celebration of the Icelandic Fishermen's day.{{cite news |author1=Urður Örlygsdóttir |title=Forsetinn sjóveikur í hátíðarsiglingu Óðins |url=https://www.ruv.is/frett/2022/06/12/forsetinn-sjoveikur-i-hatidarsiglingu-odins |access-date=12 June 2022 |work=RÚV |date=12 June 2022 |language=Icelandic}}

ICGV Óðinn was used as scenery in the film Flags of Our Fathers, when it was filmed in Iceland the summer of 2005. She rescued one of the landing boats used in the film, as it was about to be thrown into a cliff.

• The first ICGV Óðinn was the second Icelandic Coast Guard vessel that was commissioned and the first purposely built as a patrol ship. She was built in Denmark in 1925 and arrived in Iceland on 23 June 1926. A steel ship with a displacement of 512 tonnes, she was armed with two 57mm cannon. As a result of severe financial mismanagement of the Icelandic Government she was sold cheaply to Sweden in 1936.
• The second ICGV Óðinn was built on Akureyri in 1938. She was only 85 tonnes and made of oak. When the current Óðinn was commissioned she was renamed Gautur which is one of Óðinn's pseudonyms. She was decommissioned in 1964.

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Category:1959 ships

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