Icebreaker Magadan
The Icebreaker Magadan is a large modern Russian icebreaker.[1][2] She was completed in 1982[3] and is the smallest of Fesco Transport Group's fleet of five icebreakers.
Specifications
Magadan specifications[4]
| characteristics |
value |
| Length |
88.49 m |
| Beam |
20.00 m |
| Draft |
10.50 m |
| Speed |
16 knots |
| Tonnage |
| Deadweight |
1909.0 t |
| Register tonnage gross |
5342 |
| Net |
1603 |
|
Service
- 2011: Magadan was one of two vessels towing the oil rig Kolskaya when it capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk.[5]
- 2006: chartered by a joint expedition to survey Walrus abundance.[1][2]
- 2003: participated in a training exercise with vessels of other nations.[6]
- 2000: Magadan towed a Russian warship to be broken up in India.[7]
- 1999: Magadan led a rescue effort (March 6) to escort vessels carrying supplies to isolated Kamchatka settlements that were dangerousely short of fuel.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b "International Polar Year 2007-2008: News, Updates & Background". United States Geological Survey. 2007-2008. http://international.usgs.gov/ipy/updates.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ a b "Ice breaker MAGADAN research expedition in the Bering Sea is completed". Fesco Transport Group. April 3, 2006. http://www.fesco.ru/en/press-center/news/2006-04-3-00379/?year=2006&month=4. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ "Fesco Vessels". Fesco Transport Group. http://www.fesco.ru/en/assets/fleet-fesco/vessels/icebreakers/. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ "Fesco Vessels: Magadan". Fesco Transport Group. http://www.fesco.ru/en/assets/fleet-fesco/vessels/icebreakers/magadan/. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ Russian industry rocked by Kolskaya rig tragedy UpstreamOnline.com, 23 December 2011
- ^ "The joint Russian-Japanese-Korean exercises start in the Sea of Japan". Pravda. August 25, 2003. http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2003/08/25/49517.html. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
- ^ "Russian shipping lines see icebreakers as "impossible luxury"". ITAR-TASS news agency. November 8, 2000. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F97DF6F3AE2B5D0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-02-19. "Magadan was towing a Russian warship to India to the breaker's yard."
- ^ "Russian Far East: Ice-breaker to help supply Kamchatka District with fuel". ITAR-TASS news agency. March 6, 1999. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F99F770D2C84681&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-02-10. "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 6th March, ITAR-TASS correspondent Sergey Borovkov: The Magadan ice-breaker is the last hope of the inhabitants of Karaginskiy District in Koryak Autonomous Area. Only the ice-breaker is capable of making its way through the heavy ice and escort two ships, a tanker and a dry-cargo vessel, which are to deliver diesel fuel and coal for the District's freezing settlements at the port centre of Ossora. ITAR-TASS was told by the Koryak civil defence and..."