HMS Endurance

The Ice Patrol Ship HMS ENDURANCE at Cumberland Bay, South Georgia .

HMS Endurance was a Royal Navy ice patrol vessel that served from 1967 to 1991. She came to public notice when she was involved in the Falklands War of 1982. The final surrender of the war in the South Sandwich Islands, took place aboard Endurance.
History
Denmark
Name: Anita Dan
Owner: Lauritzen Lines
Launched: 1956
Fate: Sold to the Royal Navy, 1967
United Kingdom
Name: Endurance
Acquired: 1967
Out of service: 1991
Homeport: Chatham and Portsmouth
Nickname(s):
The Red Plum
HMS Encumbrance
General characteristics
Type: Icebreaker
Displacement: 3,600 long tons (3,658 t)
Length: 93 m (305 ft)
Beam: 14 m (46 ft)
Draught: 5.5 m (18 ft)
Propulsion: 1 × Burmeister & Wain diesel engine
Speed: 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Complement: 119
Armament: 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Aircraft carried:
1967–87: 2 × Westland Wasp helicopters
1982: Westland Wessex helicopter
1987–91: 2 × Westland Lynx helicopters (after 1987 refit)
Service record
Operations: Falklands War