.gif)
Krasin (icebreaker)
Encyclopedia
- For another ship of the same name, see Krasin (1916 icebreaker)Krasin (1916 icebreaker)The first icebreaker Krasin was built for the Imperial Russian Navy as Svyatogor. She had a long, distinguished career in rescue operations, as well as a pathfinder and explorer of the Northern Sea Route...
.Main engines: 9 × Wärtsilä WärtsiläWärtsilä is a Finnish corporation which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets. The core products of Wärtsilä include large combustion engines...
-SulzerSulzer (manufacturer)Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm, founded by Salomon Sulzer-Bernet in 1775 and established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in 1834 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Today it is a publicly owned company with international subsidiaries...
12ZH40/48 (9 × 3,385 kW)
The Krasin is a RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n (formerly SovietSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
) icebreakerIcebreakerAn icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ships, it may also refer to smaller vessels .For a ship to be considered an icebreaker, it requires three traits most...
. The vessel operates in polar regions.
History
The ship was built at the Helsinki New Shipyard in HelsinkiHelsinkiHelsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, FinlandFinlandFinland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
in 1976.
Design
The second Krasin is a triple-screw diesel-powered icebreaker owned by the Far East Shipping CompanyFar East Shipping CompanyThe Far East Shipping Company is a Russian ship-owning company and the base company of FESCO Group. Founded in the 19th century in Vladivostok, the company now owns a fleet of 50 vessels, totaling 880 thsd DWT.- Share capital and management :...
(FESCO) and is based in VladivostokVladivostokThe city is located in the southern extremity of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, which is about 30 km long and approximately 12 km wide.The highest point is Mount Kholodilnik, the height of which is 257 m...
. The hull has a friction-reducing coating.
Krasin can break ice six feet thick.
Service
During the 2004-2005 season (Operation Deep Freeze 2005), the United States Antarctic ProgramUnited States Antarctic ProgramUnited States Antarctic Program is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the continent of Antarctica. It co-ordinates research and the operational support for research in the region...
hired the Krasin as a secondary vessel to help clear a channel to McMurdo StationMcMurdo StationMcMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...
because the Coast GuardUnited States Coast GuardThe United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
icebreaker Polar StarUSCG Polar Class IcebreakerUSCG Polar-capable heavy icebreakers consist of three vessels, USCGC Polar Star , USCGC Polar Sea , and USCGC Healy . Polar Star and Polar Sea comprise the Polar class, while Healy is a larger, more modern design and constitutes an entirely different polar-capable icebreaker class...
faced a record 90+ mile cut through fast iceFast iceFast ice is sea ice that has frozen along coasts along the shoals, or to the sea floor over shallow parts of the continental shelf, and extends out from land into sea. In Antarctica, fast ice may also extend between grounded icebergs...
. The Krasin departed Vladivostok on December 21st, 2004 and arrived at the Ross Sea ice edge one month later.
The Krasin departed the Ross Sea on the 9th of February, reaching Vladivostok on March 5th 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 OkhotskSea of OkhotskThe Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and...
from March 2005 onwards. Along with her sister ship Icebreaker Admiral MakarovIcebreaker Admiral MakarovThe Icebreaker Admiral Makarov is a large Russian icebreaker operated by the Far East Shipping Company . Completed in 1975, she is FESCO's oldest icebreaker. Admiral Makarov and her sister ship Krasin , are the largest of the four icebreakers in FESCO's fleet...
, Krasin has been providing winter escort to large capacity tankers from the port of De-Castri (KhabarovskKhabarovskKhabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...
) as part of the Sakhalin-ISakhalin-IThe Sakhalin-I project, a sister project to Sakhalin-II, is a consortium to locate and produce oil and gas on Sakhalin Island and immediately offshore, in the Okhotsk Sea, from three fields: Chayvo, Odoptu, and Arkutun-Dagi....
project. During the summer months she provides escort on the Northern Sea RouteNorthern Sea RouteThe Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane officially defined by Russian legislation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean specifically running along the Russian Arctic coast from Murmansk on the Barents Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait and Far East. The entire route lies in Arctic...
to the Eastern sector of Arctic servicing sea terminals of North Chukotka.
See also
She is one of four large icebreakers operated by the Far East Shipping CompanyFar East Shipping CompanyThe Far East Shipping Company is a Russian ship-owning company and the base company of FESCO Group. Founded in the 19th century in Vladivostok, the company now owns a fleet of 50 vessels, totaling 880 thsd DWT.- Share capital and management :...
:- Icebreaker Admiral MakarovIcebreaker Admiral MakarovThe Icebreaker Admiral Makarov is a large Russian icebreaker operated by the Far East Shipping Company . Completed in 1975, she is FESCO's oldest icebreaker. Admiral Makarov and her sister ship Krasin , are the largest of the four icebreakers in FESCO's fleet...
- Icebreaker MagadanIcebreaker MagadanThe Icebreaker Magadan is a large modern Russian icebreaker.She was completed in 1982and is the smallest of Fesco Transport Group's fleet of five icebreakers.-Specifications:-Service:*2006: chartered by a joint expedition to survey Walrus abundance....
- Icebreaker Kapitan KhlebnikovKapitan Khlebnikov (icebreaker)The Kapitan Khlebnikov is a Russian icebreaker. The vessel now operates as a cruise ship offering excursions to the Arctic and Antarctic.-History:...
External links
- Icebreaker Admiral Makarov