THORBJORN icebreaker 1980

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Built as an icebreaker under yard No 164 by the Svendborg Skips Vaerft, Svendborg for the Danish Government.
12 October 1979 laid down.
27 June 1980 launched as the THORBJØRN (A-553).
Tonnage 1,548 tons, 2,345 dwt, dim. 65.1 x 15.4 x 7.65m, draught 4.70m, length bpp. 57.9m.
Powered by two B&W diesel engines, 6,300 hp, twin pitch propellers, speed 16 knots.
Crew 22.
12 December 1980 completed. IMO No 7904504

Most of the year, the Danish icebreakers were at the Frederikshavn Naval Station , where each fall they got a shorter sailing, which served as a preschool for any icebreaking tasks in the winter The ships were on short notice from December 15 to March 31 . The permanent crew consisted of four men, and the remaining 18 were found year by year among the Navy's other permanent staff. If the situation were to develop into a threatening ice winter, the ships would have supplies and fuel on board, so that they were ready for immediate relief.
The costs of the icebreakers were covered by the Danish ports and ships calling on them, with the help of ice charges imposed on merchant's vessels with a gross tonnage of more than 150 tonnes. The last time all three ice breakers were in action at one time was in the icy winter of 1995-96.
Up until, and partly during, the same ice winter, the defense's icebreakers also spoke of a fourth ship, ELBJØRN. However, a failure on the main engine meant that the ship was running out of power as it was not being repaired. Today ELBJØRN lives a somewhat tumultuous life as a restaurant ship in Aalborg Harbor. The icebreaker has had several different owners, but still has both its coat of arms and its international call sign, OYTD.

On June 22, 2010 , it was decided to discontinue the Navy's ice breaker service and on January 24, 2013 Thorbjørn, as well as the Armed Forces two other Danbjørn ice breakers, were put up for sale. On March 22, 2013, she was decommissioned from the Armed Forces' icebreakers.
On September 8, it was announced that Thorbjørn had been sold to Nordane Shipping in Svendborg for a two-digit million amount and the ship left the Naval Station Frederikshavn the same day. In the service of Nordane Shipping, the ship will, among other things, break ice at Finland and the Faroe Islands. (have never seen any ice in the Faroe Islands)

2019 In service registered owner Stevens Broker P/S, Svendborg and managed by Nordane Shipping in Svendborg. Tonnage given as 2,164 gt, 649 net, 2,345 dwt.
So far I can find the ships is laid up and had not been employed.

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/A553_Thorbj%C3%B8rn
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