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Admiral Makarov (icebreaker)

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History
 RussiaRussia
NameAdmiral Makarov
NamesakeAdmiral Stepan Makarov
OwnerFar East Shipping Company[1][2]
Port of registryVladivostok,  Russia[3]
BuilderHelsinki New Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland
Yard number399[3]
Completed12 June 1975[3]
Identification
StatusIn service
General characteristics [3]
Class and typeIcebreaker
Tonnage
Displacement20,247 tons
Length134.84 m (442.4 ft) (overall)
Beam
  • 25.97 m (85.2 ft) (moulded)
  • 26.05 m (85.5 ft) (max)
Height45.60 m (149.6 ft) from keel[2]
Draft11.00 m (36.09 ft)
Depth16.71 m (54.8 ft)
Ice classLL2
Installed power9 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer 12ZH40/48 (9 × 3,383 kW)
Propulsion
  • 3 × Strömberg DC motors (3 × 8,820 kW)
  • Three fixed pitch propellers
Speed
  • 20.30 knots (37.60 km/h; 23.36 mph) (max)
  • 19.8 knots (36.7 km/h; 22.8 mph) (service)[2]
  • 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) in 1.8 m (5.9 ft) level ice[4]
Aviation facilitiesHelipad and hangar[2]

Admiral Makarov (Адмирал Макаров) is a large Russian icebreaker operated by the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO).[2] Completed in 1975, she is FESCO's oldest icebreaker. Admiral Makarov and her sister ship Krasin (1976), are the largest of the four icebreakers in FESCO's fleet. She is named after the Imperial Russian Navy Admiral Stepan Makarov and was one of two icebreakers involved in Operation Breakthrough, an international effort to free three gray whales from pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska in 1988.

Layout

Triple-screw, four-decker, with forecastle, poop, elongated superstructure, fore deckhouse, middle engine room, diesel-electric icebreaker with icebreaker bow and cruiser stern.[2]

Service

  • 2003-2006: in the Baltic Sea - escorting vessels to and from Primorsk;[5]
  • 2006 (10-year contract): in the Tatar Strait - with icebreaker Krasin, escorting large-capacity crude oil tankers to DeKastri, in project Sakhalin-I.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Admiral Makarov (7347603)". Equasis. Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "FESCO vessels: Admiral Makarov". Fesco Transport Group. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Admiral Makarov (732074)". Register of ships. Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
  4. ^ The world icebreaker, ice breaking supply and research vessel fleet. Baltic Ice Management, February 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
  5. ^ "Maritime Market, Issue 18". 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-27. [dead link]
  6. ^ "Ice Breakers left Vladivostok for Sakhalin Coast". Vladivostok Times. 24 December 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-20.