Canadian Coast Guard

Canadian Coast Guard

The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue , aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking...

 

Heavy Icebreaker

(Proposed) (Decommissioned 1991 and scrapped 1994) (Decommissioned and scrapped) (Decommissioned and scrapped)

Icebreaker

(Decommissioned) (ex. CCGS Sir John Franklin) (Decommissioned) (Decommissioned, now museum ship) (Decommissioned) (Decommissioned) (Decommissioned)

• Robert Lemeur (Decommissioned)

Light Icebreaker

(St. John's, NL) (Dartmouth, NS) (Decommissioned) (St. John's, NL) (Dartmouth) (Charlottetown, PEI) (Decommissioned) (Built 1962)

Other

(ex-Arctic Kalvik)

• William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat)
  William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat)
  William Lyon Mackenzie # 334, named for Toronto's first mayor William Lyon Mackenzie, is a fireboat for the Toronto Fire Services. It was built in 1964 with a modified Tugboat hull to provide marine fire fighting as well as ice breaking capabilities...
  
   - Toronto Fire Services
  Toronto Fire Services
  The Toronto Fire Services is part of the Emergency Services that respond to 911 calls in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Overview:The Toronto Fire Services is responsible for responding to fires, rescue and assisting with medical situations within the City of Toronto...
  
  

Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 

• Icebraker A551 Danbjørn
• Icebraker A552 Isbjørn
• Icebraker A553 Thorbjørn

Estonian Maritime Museum

• Suur Tõll Steamer-icebreaker, Built in 1914 in Stettin (Szczecin) by Vulkan-Werke A. G.

Estonian Maritime Administration

• Tarmo Diesel-electric icebreaker, Built in 1963 in Helsinki
• EVA 316 Diesel-electric multi-purpose ship capable of breaking ice

Finland

Finland

Finland , 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...

 

State-owned icebreakers

Finnish icebreakers currently in service in Finland are presented in bold. The conventional icebreakers are currently owned by state-owned shipping company Arctia Shipping Oy and the multipurpose icebreakers by Arctia Offshore Oy.

Steam-powered

• Murtaja
  Finnish icebreaker Murtaja (1890)
  Murtaja was a Finnish state-owned steam-powered icebreaker. Built in 1890 by Bergsunds Mekaniska Verkstads AB in Stockholm, Sweden, she was the first state-owned icebreaker of Finland and one of the first purpose-built icebreakers in the world...
  
   (1890–1958; broken up)
• Sampo
  Finnish icebreaker Sampo (1898)
  Sampo was a Finnish state-owned steam-powered icebreaker. Built in 1898 by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom and named after a magical artifact from the Finnish mythology, she was the second state-owned icebreaker of Finland and the first European...
  
   (1898–1960; broken up)
• Apu
  Finnish icebreaker Apu (1899)
  Apu was a Finnish state-owned steam-powered icebreaker built by Howaldtswerke in Kiel, Germany, in 1899. Initially owned by a private shipping company founded by shipowners from the Finnish city of Turku and known as Avance, she was later purchased by the Finnish Board of Navigation and her name...
  
   (1899–1959; broken up)
• Tarmo (1907–1970; museum ship in Kotka
  Kotka
  Kotka is a town and municipality of Finland. Its former name is Rochensalm.Kotka is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland at the mouth of Kymi River and it is part of the Kymenlaakso region in southern Finland. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water....
  
   since 1992)
• Wäinämöinen (1918–1922; handed over to Estonia
  Estonia
  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
  
  )
• Ilmarinen (1918–1922; handed over to the Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
  
  )
• Voima
  Finnish icebreaker Voima (1924)
  Voima was a Finnish and later Soviet steam-powered icebreaker. Laid down at Werft Becker & Co. in Tallinn in 1916 and fitted with engines in Danzig in 1918, the unfinished icebreaker was towed to Helsinki in 1920 and completed by Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstads Ab in 1923–1924...
  
   (1924–1945; handed over to the Soviet Union; broken up)
• Jääkarhu (1926–1945; handed over to the Soviet Union; broken up)
• Suursaari (1927–1945; handed over to the Soviet Union; broken up)

Diesel-electric

• Sisu (1939–1975; as Louhi in the Finnish Navy
  Finnish Navy
  The Finnish Navy is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscripts are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix "FNS" simply short for "Finnish Navy Ship"...
  
   until 1986; broken up)
• Voima (1953–; in service)
• Karhu (1958–1988; sold to the Soviet Union)
• Murtaja (1959–1986; broken up)
• Sampo (1960–1987; today owned by the city of Kemi
  Kemi
  Kemi is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located very near the city of Tornio. It was founded in 1869 by royal decree, because of its proximity to a deep water harbour....
  
   and used for tourist cruises)
• Tarmo (1963–1993; sold to Estonia)
• Varma (1968–1994; sold to Latvia
  Latvia
  Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
  
  )
• Apu (1970–2006; sold to Russia
  Russia
  Russia 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...
  
  )
• Urho (1975–; in service)
• Sisu (1976–; in service)
• Otso (1986–; in service)
• Kontio (1987–; in service)
• Fennica (1993–; in service)
• Nordica (1994–; in service)
• Botnica (1998–; in service)

Finnish Navy

• Icebreaking multipurpose oil and chemical spill response vessel Louhi
  Louhi (2011)
  Louhi is a Finnish multipurpose oil and chemical spill response vessel owned by the Finnish Environment Institute , but manned and operated by the Finnish Navy...
  
   (2011–)

Commercial

• Icebreaking anchor handling tug
  Anchor handling tug supply vessel
  Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessels are mainly built to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow them to location, anchor them up and, in a few cases, serve as an Emergency Rescue and Recovery Vessel ....
  
   Zeus, owned by Alfons Håkans.
• Double acting tankers
  Double acting ship
  Double acting ship is a type of icebreaking merchant ship designed to run ahead in open water and astern in ice...
  
   Tempera
  MT Tempera
  MT Tempera is a Finnish Aframax crude oil tanker operated by Neste Shipping. She was the first ship to utilize the double acting tanker concept, developed by Aker Arctic, in which the vessel is designed to travel ahead in open water and astern in severe ice conditions...
  
   and Mastera
  MT Mastera
  MT Mastera is a Finnish Aframax crude oil tanker operated by Neste Shipping. She and her sister ship, Tempera, are the first ships to utilize the double acting tanker concept, developed by Aker Arctic, in which the vessel is designed to travel ahead in open water and astern in severe ice conditions...
  
  , owned by Neste Oil
  Neste Oil
  Neste Oil is a Finnish oil refining and marketing company producing mainly transportation fuels and other refined petroleum products. Neste Oil shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.- History :...
  
  , are designed to operate without icebreaker assistance.

Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 

(steam icebreaker, (Museum ship)

• Eisvogel class icebreaker
  Eisvogel class icebreaker
  The Eisvogel class icebreakers was a two ship class built for the German Navy by the Hitzler Werft shipyard of Lauenburg/Elbe....
  
   - German Navy
  German Navy
  The German Navy is the navy of Germany and is part of the unified Bundeswehr .The German Navy traces its roots back to the Imperial Fleet of the revolutionary era of 1848 – 52 and more directly to the Prussian Navy, which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy...
  
  
• Wal (steam icebreaker, (Museum ship)
• Elbe (steam icebreaker, (Museum ship)

Ice breaking multi-purpose-ships

• Neuwerk
  Neuwerk
  Neuwerk is a Wadden Sea island on the German North Sea coast and a homonymous quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough Hamburg-Mitte...
  
   based in Cuxhaven
• "Mellum" based in Wilhelmshaven
  Wilhelmshaven
  Wilhelmshaven is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea.-History:...
  
  
• Arkona
  Arkona
  Arkona may refer to:* Cape Arkona on the German island of Rügen* Arkona , the Russian folk metal band* Arkona , a black metal band* Arkona, Ontario...
  
   based in Stralsund
  Stralsund
  - Main sights :* The Brick Gothic historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.* The heart of the old town is the Old Market Square , with the Gothic Town Hall . Behind the town hall stands the imposing Nikolaikirche , built in 1270-1360...
  
  

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

The , or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II....

 

• Shirase 1981 - 2008, subsequently sold to Weathernews
• Shirase
  Shirase (2008 icebreaker)
  Shirase is a Japanese icebreaker operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Japan's fourth icebreaker for Antarctic expeditions. Her predecessor had the same name....
  
   2008 -
• Fuji

Japan Coast Guard

Japan Coast Guard

The , formerly the Maritime Safety Agency, is the Japanese coast guard. Comprising about 12,000 personnel, it is under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and is responsible for the protection the coast-lines of Japan...

 

• Sōya (宗谷, PL107)
  Soya (icebreaker)
  The ' is a Japanese museum ship that previously served as an icebreaker and patrol boat, and was the first Japanese ship to take part in an Antarctic research expedition.-Construction:...
  
   post World War II - 1978
• Sōya (そうや, PHL01) 1978 -
• Teshio

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 

The following icebreaking supply ships are in service in the Caspian

Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of and a volume of...

 oil fields:

• Arcticaborg
• Antarcticaborg
• Tulpar
• Five Mangystau class icebreakers (Mangystau 1...Mangystau 5)

Russia

Russia

Russia 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...

 

Nuclear powered

Nuclear powered icebreaker

A nuclear powered icebreaker is a purpose-built ship for use in waters continuously covered with ice. Icebreakers are ships capable of cruising on ice-covered water by breaking through the ice with their strong, heavy, steel bows...

 

• Ocean Icebreakers
  • Lenin (decommissioned, museum ship)
  • Arktika
    Arktika (icebreaker)
    NS Arktika is a nuclear powered icebreaker of the Soviet Arktika class. In service since 1975, she was the first surface ship to reach the North Pole, on August 17, 1977....
    
     (inactive, awaiting refit or scrapping)
  • Sibir (inactive, awaiting refit or scrapping)
  • Rossiya (Russia)
  • Sovjetskij Sojuz (Soviet Union)
  • Yamal
    Yamal (icebreaker)
    The NS Yamal is a Russian Arktika class nuclear powered icebreaker operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company. It is named after the Yamal Peninsula in Northwest Siberia; the name means End of the Land in Nenets....
    
    
  • 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years Since Victory), formerly the Ural
• River Icebreakers
  • Taymyr
    Taymyr (nuclear icebreaker)
    Taymyr is a shallow-draft nuclear powered icebreaker, and the first of two similar vessels. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Finland, at the Helsinki New Shipyard by Wärtsilä, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Co....
    
    
  • Vaygach
    Vaygach (nuclear icebreaker)
    Vaygach is a shallow-draft nuclear powered icebreaker. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union in Finland, at the Helsinki New Shipyard by Wärtsilä, by order of the Murmansk Shipping Co....
    
    

Non-nuclear

(ex-Canmar Kigoriak of Canada)

• SCF Sakhalin
• Ivan Susanin class icebreaker
  Ivan Susanin class icebreaker
  The Ivan Susanin class are a group of icebreaker Patrol ships operated by the Russian maritime border guard. The Soviet designation is Project 97P. The ships are also known as the Aysberg class patrol ice breakers.-Design:...
  
   - armed patrol vessels operated by the Russian Maritime Border Guard

Swedish Maritime Administration

Swedish Maritime Administration

The Swedish Maritime Administration is the Swedish government agency which provides services to the transport sector by keeping the sea lanes open and safe...

 

• Atle I (formerly known as Statsisbrytaren)
• Ymer I
• Thule
• Oden I
• Tor
• Njord
• Ale
• Atle II
  Atle (icebreaker)
  The Atle was the first to be delivered from the Wärtsilä Shipyard. After sea trials in mid-1974 she was delivered on 21 October. She was then crewed by personnel from the Swedish Navy and on 24 October she set sail for Stockholm.- References :...
  
  
• Frej
  Frej (icebreaker)
  The Frej is the third , named after the Norse god Freyr. She was launched during late in 1974, and on 30 September 1975 she was delivered to the Swedish Navy and departed the shipyard bound for Stockholm.- References :* Staffan Fischerström, Isbrytare...
  
  
• Ymer II
  Ymer (icebreaker)
  The Ymer is the fifth and last icebreaker in the . She was launched in late 1976, and on 25 October 1977 she was delivered to the Swedish Navy and departed the Aker Finnyards bound for Stockholm, where she arrived on 3 November.- References :...
  
  
• Oden II
  Oden (icebreaker)
  The Oden is a large Swedish icebreaker, built in 1988 for the Swedish Maritime Administration. It is named after the asa god Odin. First built to clear a passage through the ice of the Baltic sea for cargo ships, it was later modified to serve as a research vessel...
  
  

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 

National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

 

• Laurence M. Gould
• Nathaniel B. Palmer
  Nathaniel B. Palmer (icebreaker)
  The Nathaniel B. Palmer is an ice-capable research ship in the service of the U.S. National Science Foundation. It is tasked with extended scientific missions in the Antarctic....
  
  

Heavy Icebreaker

• USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
  USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
  USCGC Healy is a research icebreaker put into commission in 1999 by the United States Coast Guard.-Construction:Healy was constructed by Avondale Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana and named in honor of Captain "Hell Roaring" Michael A. Healy U.S.R.C.S. Her keel was laid on September 16, 1996...
  
   (Commissioned 2000)
• USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) (Commissioned 1976, placed in a "Commission-Special" (Reserve) status 2006)
• USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) (Commissioned 1978)

Icebreaker

• USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)
  USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83)
  USCGC Mackinaw was a vessel specifically designed for ice breaking duties on the Great Lakes. LR number: 6119534Mackinaws design was based on the Wind class of Coast Guard icebreakers, but the cutter was built wider and longer than the other Wind class vessels so that her draft would be shallower...
  
   (Decommissioned and museum ship 2006)
• USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)
  USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)
  USCGC Mackinaw is a vessel built as a heavy icebreaker for operations on the North American Great Lakes for the United States Coast Guard. IMO number: 9271054...
  
   (Commissioned 2006)
• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  USCGC Staten Island was a United States Coast Guard . Laid down on 9 June 1942 and launched on 28 December 1942, the ship was commissioned on 26 February 1944, and almost immediately afterward transferred to the Soviet Union, under the Lend Lease program, under the name Severny Veter, which...
  
   (Decommissioned and scrapped in 1974)
• USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279)
  USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279)
  USCGC Eastwind was a United States Coast Guard Wind-class icebreaker.She was laid down in 1942 and launched in 1944. Eastwind ferried 200 US army troops which captured the last German weather station in Greenland, Edelweiss II, on 4 October 1944. She also seized the German trawler Externsteine,...
  
   (Decommissioned and sold in 1967)
• USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280)
  USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280)
  USCGC Southwind was a Wind-class icebreaker that served in the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Southwind , the Soviet Navy as the Admiral Makarov, the United States Navy as USS Atka and again in the U.S...
  
   (Decommissioned and sold in 1976)
• USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)
  USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)
  USCGC Westwind was a United States Coast Guard Wind-class icebreaker.-Ship's history:*1942 - 24 August: Keel laid at Western Pipe & Steel, San Pedro, CA, USA.*1943 - 31 March: Launched at San Pedro, CA, USA....
  
  (Decommissioned 1988, scrapped in Asia)
• USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) (Decommissioned 1988, scrapped in Texas)
• USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)
  USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)
  USS Burton Island was a United States Navy that was later re-commissioned in the United States Coast Guard as the United States Coast Guard Cutter Burton Island ....
  
   (Decommissioned 1978, sold 1980, scrapped 1982)
• USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)
  USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)
  The USS Edisto was a in the service of the United States Navy which was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Edisto ...
  
   (Scrapped 1980)
• USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) (Decommissioned, museum ship effort underway 2009)