Sleipner

When new, the skate was used for mackerel fishing and Finnmark fishing.

Together with "Minna" and "Nils Liaaen", the first ship from Sunnmøre to hunt seals in 1898. More about the start of Sunnmøre seal hunting here: https://www.ishavsmuseet.no/fortellingar/far-og-son-brandal-starta-selfangsten-fra-sunnmore/

Rescued the crew of Mikal Landmarks' "Norrøna" in 1901 when it sank off the coast of Greenland. At the end of August, Sleipner, with Jonas Fuglevig as skipper, arrived in Ålesund from Greenland with a catch of seals, 90 barrels of blubber, 8 barrels of salmon, 5 polar bears, 14 musk oxen, 5 humpback whales and 3 wolves.

The young adventurer HW Sundt from Oslo had paid for himself with "Minna" as a tourist on a hunt in 1902. This gave him more of a taste and in 1903 he bought "Sleipner" and equipped it for sport hunting and hunting in Greenland. The crew on this first trip was mostly from Brandal. The catch on this first "adventure trip" was 1100 seals and 4 live and 37 dead polar bears. Sundt was extremely satisfied with the first trip: "A very good trip with excellent hunting. Such Greenland trips can be something for our sportsmen. It is quite something else than with the help of a good dog to kill a couple of grouse chicks, so to speak, outside the living room door". Sundt had shot most of the polar bears himself. The ice conditions were difficult this year, and it took them three weeks to reach Greenland.

Wrecked at Biscayerhuken in Svalbard on June 3, 1926 after being hit by ice. After a hard month in a fishing boat and various fishing huts, the crew was picked up by the "Jan Mayen" and taken to Ny-Ålesund. They were given a ride home to Norway by a cargo ship.