Pyotr Lebedev (research vessel)

Career
Name: Chapayev[1]
Builder: Turku repair yard, Turku, Finland[1]
Launched: 1957
Career (Soviet Union)
Name: Pyotr Lebedev
Namesake: Pyotr Lebedev
In service: 1966
Out of service: 1977
Career (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Name: Pyotr Lebedev[1]
Identification: IMO number: 5276159[1]
Status: in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Type:Research vessel/survey vessel
Tonnage:3,642 GT[1]
1,675 DWT[1]

Pyotr Lebedev is a research vessel, built in Turku, Finland, originally as a merchant vessel in 1957. She was subsequently acquired for the Soviet Union and refitted as a research ship.[2] The vessel was owned and operated by the Andreev Acoustics Institute, and was used to make hydrophysical observations of the Atlantic Ocean such as during the Polygon experiment.[3] Pyotr Lebedev possessed five on-board laboratories used to study hydroacoustics, hydrology, hydrobiology, hydrochemistry, and electronics.[3] The ship was active as a research vessel from 1967 until 1977.[4] She is current registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[1]


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "PYOTR LEBEDEV - 5276159 - RESEARCH/SURVEY VESSEL". Maritime Connector. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Brekhovskikh, p. 155
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tatusko & Levitus, pp. 41–42
  4. ↑ Tatusko & Levitus, p. 100

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