Krasin (1976 icebreaker)
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NSF picture of Russian icebreaker Krasin on its way to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
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Name: | Krasin |
Namesake: | Leonid Borisovich Krasin |
Owner: | Far East Shipping Company (FESCO)[1][2] |
Port of registry: | Vladivostok, ![]() |
Builder: | Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland |
Yard number: | 400[3] |
Completed: | 28 April 1976[3] |
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Status: | In service |
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Type: | Icebreaker |
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Displacement: | 20,247 tons |
Length: | 134.84 m (442.4 ft) (overall) |
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Height: | 45.60 m (149.6 ft) from keel[2] |
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 × 3,385 kW) |
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Aviation facilities: | Helipad and hangar[2] |
The Krasin (Russian: Красин) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) icebreaker. The vessel operates in polar regions.
History
The ship was built at the Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland in 1976.[2] Named after an early Bolshevik leader and Soviet diplomat Leonid Krasin and an earlier icebreaker of the same name.
Design
The second Krasin is a triple-screw diesel-powered icebreaker owned by the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) and is based in Vladivostok. The hull has a friction-reducing coating.[5]
Krasin can break ice six feet thick.[6]
Service
During the 2004-2005 season (Operation Deep Freeze 2005), the United States Antarctic Program hired the Krasin as a secondary vessel to help clear a channel to McMurdo Station[7] because the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star faced a record 90+ mile cut through fast ice. The Krasin departed Vladivostok on December 21, 2004 and arrived at the Ross Sea ice edge one month later.[6][8]
The Krasin departed the Ross Sea on the 9th of February, reaching Vladivostok on March 5, 2005. She is unlikely to return to the Antarctic as FESCO have signed a multi-year contract for Krasin to support oil rig operations in the Sea of Okhotsk from March 2005 onwards.[6] Along with her sister ship Icebreaker Admiral Makarov, Krasin has been providing winter escort to large capacity tankers from the port of De-Castri (Khabarovsk) as part of the Sakhalin-I project.[9] During the summer months she provides escort on the Northern Sea Route to the Eastern sector of Arctic servicing sea terminals of North Chukotka.[10]
See also
She is one of four large icebreakers operated by the Far East Shipping Company:
References
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- ↑ The world icebreaker, ice breaking supply and research vessel fleet. Baltic Ice Management, February 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
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External links
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