Icebreaker Magadan
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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
| characteristics | value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length | 88.49 m | ||||||
| Beam | 20.00 m | ||||||
| Draft | 10.50 m | ||||||
| Speed | 16 knots | ||||||
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Service
- 2006: chartered by a joint expedition to survey Walrus abundance.[1][2]
- 2003: participated in a training exercise with vessels of other nations.[5]
- 2000: Magadan towed a Russian warship to be broken up in India.[6]
- 1999: Magadan led a rescue effort (March 6) to escort vessels carrying supplies to isolated Kamchatka settlements that were dangerousely short of fuel.[7]
Sister ships
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "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.
- ↑ "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..."
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