Interesting I spoke with Hammer last night and he confirmed that this was one of the designs the AdCh were looking at for some sort of duty in their fleet.

That is interesting. I suppose it could be part of the explanation why a Chilean yard is involved… or the other way around.

Guess we’ll have to brush up on our Islenska to find out for sure!

The article does mention that ASMAR is a state owned company that also builds vessels for the Armada de Chile, but nothing about this design being considered. I have to admit though that my Íslenska is only based on Modern Norwegian (Nynorsk) and what little I know of Old Norse.