This ship was built in Norway 1912, the same year that the Titanic met it’s fate. It was named Globe IV and was equipped with both sails and a steam engine to use when the weather was still. It was specially reinforced to endure the harsh conditions of the Southern Ocean where it was used to hunt whales.

 It came to Iceland in the 1940s and the old steam workhorse which has powered it all those years was replaced with a 378 hp Ruston Hornsby diesel engine. The ship traded owners and names for number of years until 1963 it finally aquired the name it has today, Garðar BA64. 

When it was finally deemed unsafe for service in 1981 the old ship was run aground in Skápadalur valley in the West fjörds insted of being scuttled where it remains to this day. It’s slowly falling apart but has been painted few times over the years