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Iceland Defense Force

Dissolved 2006

Headquarters: Naval Air Station Keflavik
Founded: 1951
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

1,271

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Iceland Defense Force is

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The Iceland Defense Force (Icelandic: Varnarlið Íslands; IDF) was a sub-unified command of the United States Department of Defense. It existed from 1951 to 2006. It came into existence when the United States agreed to provide for the defense of Iceland, which has only limited defense forces.
The IDF was composed of United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force personnel as well as local Icelandic civilians. In the 1950s, there were United States Army field forces stationed in Iceland, and the first commander of the IDF was a U.S. Army brigadier general. By the 1980s the IDF only included a few U.S. Army and, in addition, some United States Coast Guard personnel.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Naval Air Station Keflavik
Formed in: —
Founded: 1951
Dissolved: 2006
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 63.9850, -22.6056

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 51.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1975
Newest vessel on record: 1975
Largest vessel by tonnage: 1,271
Average tonnage: 1,271
Market share: —
Parent company: United States European Command
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Iceland Defense Force. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Naval / patrol1

By flag state

Iceland1

By shipbuilder

Aarhus Flydedok1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record · Naval / patrol

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Týr	7358420	Naval / patrol	Iceland	1975	1,271	—	71.0 m	Aarhus Flydedok

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Iceland Defense Force compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Iceland Defense Force is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Iceland Defense Force ranks 55th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1951, Iceland Defense Force is 75 years old. This directory holds 86 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.