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Icebreaker. USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) at right breaks ice around the Russian-flagged tanker Renda, 250 miles (400 km) south of Nome, Alaska. An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice -covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ...
USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) is the United States' largest and most technologically advanced icebreaker as well as the US Coast Guard 's largest vessel. [1] She is classified as a medium icebreaker by the Coast Guard. [1] She is homeported in Seattle, Washington, and was commissioned in 1999. On 6 September 2001 Healy visited the North Pole for the ...
Polaris is a Finnish icebreaker. Built in 2016 by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, she is the most powerful icebreaker ever to fly the Finnish flag and the first icebreaker in the world to feature dual-fuel engines capable of using both low-sulfur marine diesel oil (LSMDO) and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Polaris was initially ordered by the Finnish ...
Yamal (Russian: Ямал) is a Russian Arktika -class nuclear-powered icebreaker operated by Atomflot (formerly by the Murmansk Shipping Company). She is named after the Yamal Peninsula in Northwest Siberia; the name means End of the Land in Nenets. Laid down in Leningrad in 1986, and commissioned in October 1992, after the breakup of the ...
Diesel-electric. Six modern Finnish icebreakers docked for the summer season at Katajanokka, Helsinki. Sisu (1939–1974; transferred to the Finnish Navy) Voima (1954–) Karhu class. Karhu (1958–1986; sold to the Soviet Union) Murtaja (1959–1986; broken up) Sampo (1961–1987; sold to the city of Kemi) Tarmo class.
127. Project 10510, also known through the Russian type size series designations LK-110Ya and LK-120Ya[note 2] or the project name Leader (Russian: Лидер, romanized: Lider), [9] is a planned series of Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers. Designed in the 2010s, when built in the 2020s, it would supersede Project 22220 icebreakers as the ...
Aviation facilities. Helicopter landing area. Otso is a Finnish state-owned icebreaker. Built by Wärtsilä Helsinki shipyard in 1986 to replace the aging Karhu -class icebreakers, she was the first Finnish post-war icebreaker to be built without bow propellers. Otso has an identical sister ship, Kontio, which was delivered in 1987.
Taymyr. (1987 icebreaker) Taymyr breaking ice in the Gulf of Ob in March 2015. Taymyr (Russian: Таймыр, IPA: [tɐjˈmɨr]) is a shallow-draft nuclear-powered icebreaker, and the first of two similar vessels. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Finland, at the Helsinki Shipyard by Wärtsilä Marine, by order of the Murmansk ...