Finnish icebreaker Kontio (1987)

Career (Finland)
Name: Kontio
Operator: Finnish Maritime Administration
Builder: Wärtsilä, Helsinki
Yard number: 478
Completed: 1987
In service: 29 January 1987
Status: Active
General characteristics
Type: icebreaker
Displacement: 9.130 tonnes
Length: 99.00 m (324.80 ft)
Installed power: 4 x Wärtsilä 16V32 diesel engine, 21,800 kW
Speed: 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h)
Crew: 24

Kontio and almost identical Otso are Finnish icebreakers built in 1980s in Helsinki. The Kontio was designed to keep waters open in the Bothnian Bay.[1] The two vessels replaced three older ones: Karhu, Murtaja and Sampo.

References

  1. ^ "KONTIO Page". homepage.hispeed.ch. http://homepage.hispeed.ch/Hecht_Minas/eisbrecher/kontio.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12. 

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kontio_(ship,_1987) Kontio (ship, 1987)] at Wikimedia Commons
Diesel-electric:
Sisu  · Voima  · Karhu  · Murtaja  · Sampo  · Tarmo  · Varma  · Apu  · Urho  · Sisu  · Otso  · Kontio · Fennica · Nordica · Botnica
Steam-powered:
Murtaja  · Sampo  · Apu  · Tarmo  · Wäinämöinen  · Ilmarinen  · Voima  · Jääkarhu  · Suursaari
State-owned icebreakers currently in service in Finland are presented in bold