Busy tug day in Reykjavik

Published 05/04/202205/04/2022 by Hilmar Snorrason

20220404 – Today the aircraft carrier PRINCE OF WALES paid visit to Reykjavik as her first foreign port of call during her trials. This was the second time that vessel by this name visits Iceland but the former one was in WWII in 1941 when Winston Churchill came to Reykjavik with the vessel after meeting with Roosevell

PRINCE OF WALES with the tug SEIFUR from Akureyri at the bow.

Tugs from Reykjavik, Akranes, Thorlakshofn and Akureyri took part in the operation to bring the 283 meter long aircraft carrier alongside.

Five of the tugs assisting the aircraft carrier

MAGNI of Reykjavik

HERDIS of Thorlakshofn

SEIFUR of Akureyri

PRINCE OF WALES is the first aircraft carrier visiting Iceland since the WWII and the first one ever to be berthed in Reykjavik.