Admiral Makarov (Адмирал Макаров) is a Russian icebreaker operated by the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO).[3] 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.
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| History | |
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  Russia | |
| Name | Admiral Makarov |
| Namesake | Admiral Stepan Makarov |
| Owner | Far East Shipping Company[2][3] |
| Port of registry | Vladivostok,  Russia[1] |
| Builder | Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland |
| Yard number | 399[1] |
| Completed | 12 June 1975[1] |
| Identification | |
| Status | In service |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Icebreaker |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 20,247 tons |
| Length | 134.84 m (442.4 ft) (overall) |
| Beam |
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| Height | 45.60 m (149.6 ft) from keel[3] |
| Draft | 11.00 m (36.09 ft) |
| Depth | 16.71 m (54.8 ft) |
| Ice class | LL2 |
| Installed power | 9 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer 12ZH40/48 (9 × 3,383 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | |
| Aviation facilities | Helipad and hangar[3] |
The ship is chartered out for scientific expeditions and used as a supplier ship.
Layout edit
Triple-screw, four-decker, with forecastle, poop, elongated superstructure, fore deckhouse, middle engine room, diesel-electric icebreaker with icebreaker bow and cruiser stern.[3]
Service edit
- 1988: Operation Breakthrough
- 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 De-Kastri, in project Sakhalin-I.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f "Admiral Makarov (732074)". Register of ships. Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
- ^ a b "Admiral Makarov (7347603)". Equasis. Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
- ^ a b c d e f "FESCO vessels: Admiral Makarov". Fesco Transport Group. Archived from the original on 2008-01-03. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
- ^ The world icebreaker, ice breaking supply and research vessel fleet Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Baltic Ice Management, February 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ "Maritime Market, Issue 18". 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-27. [dead link]
- ^ "Ice Breakers left Vladivostok for Sakhalin Coast". Vladivostok Times. 24 December 2006. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2008-07-20.