Kapitan Dranitsyn

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Kapitan Dranitsyn in 2006
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Name: Kapitan Dranitsyn
Owner: Russian Federation
Operator: Murmansk Shipping Company
Builder: Wärtsilä Helsinki shipyard, Finland
Yard number: 413
Launched: 1975
Completed: December 2, 1980
Homeport: Murmansk
Identification:

Callsign: UCJP
IMO Number: 7824405

MMSI Number: 273138300
Status: in service
General characteristics
Class and type: Icebreaker
Displacement: 12,228 tons
Length: 131.00 m
Beam: 26.50 m
Draft: 8.50 m
Ice class: KM*LL3 A2
Installed power: Main engines: Six Wartsila Diesel-electric 24,000 total hp
Speed: 15 knots
Complement: 102 passengers
Crew: 60
Aviation facilities: helicopter deck
Notes: [1][2]

The Kapitan Dranitsyn (Russian: «Капитан Драницын») is a Russian icebreaker, built in Finland for the former Soviet Union. Since October 1995 she has been used as a research vessel by AARI.[3] She also offers excursions in the Arctic Ocean north of Russia.

Layout

Kapitan Dranitsyn is a conventionally-propelled icebreaker built for conditions in the Northern Sea Route and the Baltic Sea. In the last few years she has been modified as a passenger vessel, with 49 outside cabins for 100 passengers. Public accommodation includes spacious lounges, bars, a heated swimming pool, gym, sauna, library and a small hospital.[4]

Service

Icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn's main activity is piloting cargo ships on the Northern Sea route. She has also carried out tourist voyages to Frants Joseph's Archipelago, Spitsbergen, New Land, and Chukotka, to Bering Strait and even to the North Pole. She has completed research cruises into the Barents Sea, the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean.

In 1996, she made the first around-the-world voyage. In the same year, the icebreaker participated in rescuing the German passenger ship MS Hanseatic, with 135 passengers aboard.[5]

In 2000, the icebreaker made the Arctic around-the-world voyage on the route Hammerfest (Norway) – Keflavik (Iceland) – Stromfiord (Greenland) – Canadian Arctic regions – Alaska – Chukotka - Murmansk. She made research expeditions to the Laptev Sea in 2002, 2003, and 2004, to place and recover moorings in the NABOS project.[5]

In summer of 2002, the Captain Dranitsyn took part in shooting an advertising film for the Ford Motor Company in the Spitsbergen Archipelago.

References

  1. "Kapitan Dranitsyn". Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. http://siempre.arcus.org/4DACTION/wi_alias_fsDrawPage/1/59. Retrieved 2008-08-15. 
  2. "Kapitan Dranitsyn". xVAS. http://www.xvas.it/SPECIAL/VTship.php?imo=7824405&mode=CK. Retrieved 2008-08-15. 
  3. "Information on RV Kapitan Dranitsyn" (in Russian). Federal Target Program World Ocean. http://data.oceaninfo.ru/resource/objects/vessels/vesselDetails.jsp?id=4579. Retrieved 2008-08-15. 
  4. "Kapitan Dranitsyn". Eagles Cry Adventures. http://eaglescry.com/Kapitan_Dranitsyn.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-15. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Marine Reports - 1996 - M96H0016". Transportation Safety Board of Canada. http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/marine/1996/m96h0016/m96h0016.asp. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 

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