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Diesel-electric. Six modern Finnish icebreakers docked for the summer season at Katajanokka, Helsinki. Sisu (1939–1974; transferred to the Finnish Navy) Voima (1954–) Karhu class. Karhu (1958–1986; sold to the Soviet Union) Murtaja (1959–1986; broken up) Sampo (1961–1987; sold to the city of Kemi) Tarmo class.
Icebreakers of Ukraine (2 P) Icebreakers of the United Kingdom (12 P) Icebreakers of the United States (2 C, 9 P) Categories: Ships by country. Icebreakers.
Nuclear icebreaker Yamal, 2015. A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. . Although more expensive to operate, nuclear-powered icebreakers provide a number of advantages over their diesel-powered counterparts, especially along the Northern Sea Route where heavy power demand associated with ...
Yamal. (icebreaker) Yamal during the removal of the North Pole-36 drifting station in 2009. Yamal (Russian: Ямал) is a Russian Arktika -class nuclear-powered icebreaker operated by Atomflot (formerly by the Murmansk Shipping Company). She is named after the Yamal Peninsula in Northwest Siberia; the name means End of the Land in Nenets.
Arktika. -class icebreaker. The Arktika class is a Russian (formerly Soviet) class of nuclear-powered icebreakers. Also known by their Russian designations Project 10520 (first two ships) and Project 10521 (from third ship onwards), they were the world's largest and most powerful icebreakers until the 2016 launch of the first Project 22220 ...
Icebreaker. USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) at right breaks ice around the Russian-flagged tanker Renda, 250 miles (400 km) south of Nome, Alaska. An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice -covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ...
Icebreakers by country (22 C) Auxiliary icebreaker classes (10 C, 11 P) D. Double acting ships (11 P) N. ... Resonance method of ice destruction; River icebreaker; T.
SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker and museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.. She was launched in 1915 as Isbrytaren II ("Ice breaker II") and was a conventionally-built Baltic icebreaker with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward-facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull.