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An icebreaker is a brief facilitation exercise intended to help members of a group begin the process of working together or forming a team.They are commonly presented as games to "warm up" a group by helping members get to know each other and often focus on sharing personal information such as names or hobbies.
This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) capable of operating independently in ice-covered waters. Ships known to be in service are presented in bold .
Беларуская; Български; Чӑвашла; Čeština; Dansk; Deutsch; Eesti; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara; فارسی; Français; Frysk
Prior to ocean-going ships, ice breaking technology was developed on inland canals and rivers using laborers with axes and hooks. The first recorded primitive icebreaker ship was a barge used by the Belgian town of Bruges in 1383 to help clear the town moat.
Using a hovercraft for destruction of ice is desirable because this type of vehicle makes possible a combination of transport and ice-breaking, and its all-terrain qualities facilitate year-round operation. The high speed of destruction of ice by hovercraft can effectively make an early opening of individual sections of rivers and reservoirs.
USCGC Mackinaw breaking ice stern first. The first double acting icebreaking vessel, Azipod-equipped river icebreaker Röthelstein, was delivered in 1995. The vessel was designed to break apart ice ridges deeper than the vessel's draft when moving astern. [1]
Breaks ice on the River Oder: Stettin: 1933: Steamship, now a museum ship Eisbrecher I: 1871: One of the first European icebreakers Eisbrecher II: 1877: Eisbrecher III: 1892: Eisvogel: 1960: a 500-ton naval icebreaker, since 2010 Italian tugboat Eisbär: 1961: a 500-ton naval icebreaker, scrapped in late 1990s Kienitz: ENI 05027290: 1958 ...
SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker and museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.. She was launched in 1915 as Isbrytaren II ("Ice breaker II") and was a conventionally-built Baltic icebreaker with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward-facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull.