Icebreaker Joseph Stalin
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For the steamer with the same namesake, see Steamer Tovarishch Stalin.
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Joseph Stalin |
| Namesake: | Joseph Stalin |
| Builder: | Ordzhonikidze Yard, Leningrad |
| Launched: | 14 August 1937 |
| In service: | 1938 |
| Renamed: | Sibir, c.1956 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1973 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Icebreaker |
| Tonnage: | 4,866 GRT |
| Displacement: | 11,000 long tons (11,177 t) |
| Length: | 107 m (351 ft) |
| Beam: | 23 m (75 ft) |
| Draught: | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3 × triple expansion steam engines, 10,050 hp (7.49 MW) Coal-fired boilers 3 stern and 1 bow propellers Diesel electric engines for cruising |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Crew: | 142 |
| Armament: | 2 × 13 in (330 mm) guns 7 × 7.6 in (190 mm) guns |
| Aviation facilities: | Catapult and three seaplanes. Helicopter deck. |
The Joseph Stalin was the first Soviet icebreaker built at a domestic shipyard.
Owing to many delays, it took over two years to finish. It was built at the Ordzhonikidze Yard in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) between 1937 and 1938.
The Joseph Stalin was the biggest icebreaker of the Soviet fleet at that time. In 1938 it reached the Arctic in its first expedition.
Icebreaker Joseph Stalin, freed Icebreaker Sedov on January 18th 1940 between Greenland and Svalbard after it had been drifting as a scientific Soviet Polar Station for a long time.
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- Notes
- ^ "JOSEPH STALIN / SIBIR". shipstamps.co.uk. 2012. http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5658. Retrieved 21 January 2012. "from Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II"
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