The Coast Guard vessel Þór arrives in its home port in Iceland for the first time and is greeted in proper fashion. Þór was designed by Rolls Royce Marine, and all of the ship’s main machinery was manufactured by Rolls Royce and serviced by the people of Héðinn. Photo: Ólafur Hauksson / Héðinn
A Continuous History with Rolls Royce Marine and Kongsberg
For many years, Héðinn was the sales representative for Rolls Royce Marine ship equipment and the only authorized workshop not directly operated by Rolls Royce Marine. In 2019, Rolls Royce Marine was merged into the maritime division of the Norwegian company Kongsberg, for which Héðinn is also an agent. The story of Héðinn’s collaboration with these international industrial giants in the manufacture of engines and marine equipment spans more than seven decades.
The partnership can be traced back to 1951, when servicing of the Norwegian Brattvaag winch systems began, and for many years Héðinn manufactured Brattvaag winch systems under special license.
Brattvaag and a number of well-known manufacturing and service companies in the fishing industry merged with Rolls Royce Marine in the last century and are now all gathered under the umbrella of Kongsberg.
Héðinn handles all services in Iceland for Kongsberg, including the sale of equipment and solutions from Kongsberg and Rolls Royce Marine, as well as installation, renewal, maintenance, and repair of engines and machinery
In Siglufjörður - Here we see unloading equipment built by Héðinn for the harbor in Siglufjörður. The machinery was so powerful that a trawler carrying 300,000 liters (3,000 hectoliters) of catch could be unloaded in five to six hours, and it was considered revolutionary when put into use in the summer of 1943. These devices were sometimes called “tórar” (derived from elevator) or “síldarbítar” (herring biters). Contemporary sources report that the people of Siglufjörður found it more entertaining to watch the síldarbítar at work than to go to the cinema. This particular tór was known as the Rauðkutórinn (“the Red Cod Tór”). Photo: Author unknown / Héðinn
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