The Arctic Viking (H452) was a British trawler ship that sailed from the Port of Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Besides her wartime service, she had two other accidents; one a collision in 1956 and another where she sank with the loss of five of her crew, 16 miles (26 km) off Flamborough Head in October 1961.
[1] During the Second World War, she was requisitioned into military service in October 1939[2] and named as HMT Arctic Pioneer, with pennant number of FY164.
[6] On 27 May 1956, the Arctic Viking was in a collision with another British owned trawler (the St Celestin[note 1]) off the east coast of Iceland.
The chief engineer of the St Celestin later stated that the Arctic Viking practically sliced the other ship in two and that the water was waist deep within a matter of seconds.
[17] Five men perished in the sinking, with the storm delaying entry into the port of Hull for the Derkacz until two days after the loss of the Arctic Viking.