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Built as a trawler under yard No 734 by A. Hall & Co. Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland for the Icelandic Government.
01 June 1950 launched as VIKINGUR.
Tonnage 732 gross, 250 tons net, dim. 202.0 x 30.2 x 15.1ft.
Powered by a 3-cyl triple expansion steam engine, 1,000 hp, manufactured by the shipbuilder,
December 1950 delivered under the name HARDBAKUR., fishing No EA 3.

Before delivery sold to Utgerdanfelag Akureyringa, Akureyri, Iceland.
1979 Sold to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co. Ltd., Troon where she arrived in September 1979.

Iceland 2010 165Kr. sg?, scott?

Source: Lloyds Registry 1955/56 http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz

At the end of the second world war the Icelandic government contracted for the building of 40 trawlers in Britain to rejuvenate the decrepit trawler fleet. Icelanders called them the renovation trawlers.

Harðbakur EA 3. Built in England 1950. Steel, 732 BRT. 1000 horsepower steam engine. Owner Akureyri Fishing Company Ltd. Akureyri. from. 1950. Sold to Scotland as scrap metal in 1979.

Iceland Philatelic
Iceland SG?