HMS Endurance (1967)

History
Denmark
Name	Anita Dan
Owner	Lauritzen Lines
Builder	Kröger-Werft, Schacht-Audorf
Yard number	1080
Launched	26 May 1956
In service	October 1956
Fate	Sold to the Royal Navy, 1967
United Kingdom
Name	Endurance
Acquired	1967
Out of service	1991
Homeport	Chatham and Portsmouth
Identification	IMO number: 5017967
Nickname(s)	The Red Plum HMS Encumbrance
Fate	Scrapped
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

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.