Magadan (icebreaker)
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| Name: | Magadan |
| Namesake: | Magadan |
| Operator: | Fesco Transport Group |
| Port of registry: | Vladivostok,  Russia |
| Builder: | Wärtsilä Helsinki New Shipyard |
| Yard number: | 437 |
| Launched: | 1982 |
| Completed: | 29 December 1982 |
| Identification: |
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| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics [1][2] | |
| Type: | Icebreaker |
| Tonnage: | |
| Displacement: | 6,210 tons |
| Length: | 88.5 m (290 ft) (overall) |
| Beam: | 20.92 m (68.6 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.50 m (21.3 ft) |
| Depth: | 10.5 m (34 ft) |
| Ice class: | RMRS LL4 |
| Installed power: | 4 × Wärtsilä 8R32 (4 × 2,390 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Two shafts, 4-bladed controllable pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Magadan is a Russian icebreaker.[3][4] She was completed in 1982[5] and is the smallest of Fesco Transport Group's fleet of five icebreakers.
Service history
- 2011: Magadan was one of two vessels towing the oil rig Kolskaya when it capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk.[6]
- 2006: chartered by a joint expedition to survey Walrus abundance.[3][4]
- 2003: participated in a training exercise with vessels of other nations.[7]
- 2000: Magadan towed a Russian warship to be broken up in India.[8]
- 1999: Magadan led a rescue effort (March 6) to escort vessels carrying supplies to isolated Kamchatka settlements that were dangerousely short of fuel.[9]
See also
References
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