HDMS Thetis is a Thetis-class ocean patrol vessel belonging to the Royal Danish Navy

Royal Danish Navy

The Royal Danish Navy is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese territorial waters...

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In mid-1990s the ship served as a platform for seismic operations in the waters near Greenland. In 2002 she took over the role from her sister ship Hvidbjørnen

HDMS Hvidbjørnen (F360)

The HDMS Hvidbjoernen is a belonging to the Royal Danish Navy.-Service :Hvidbjoernen served as a platform for Commander Danish Task Group, in the period 1998-2002, whereafter her sister ship Thetis assumed the role.During a patrol in Faroes waters, the French trawler Bruix was suspected of...

 as a platform for Commander Danish Task Group. The role was handed over to Absalon

HDMS Absalon (L16)

HDMS Absalon and her sister ship HDMS Esbern Snare are the biggest ships ever to serve in the Royal Danish Navy , and are the two members of the Absalon class flexible support ships...

 in September 2007. From February - April 2008 Thetis served as a protection vessel for the World Food Programme

World Food Programme

The World Food Programme is the food aid branch of the United Nations, and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger worldwide. WFP provides food, on average, to 90 million people per year, 58 million of whom are children...

 chartered ships, carrying food aid, off the Horn of Africa

Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. It is the easternmost projection of the African continent...

. In 2009 the ship served as staff ship for the NATO Mine Countermeasure Group 1.