List of icebreakers
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This is a list of icebreakers, ships designed to operate in ice-covered waters.
Contents
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Canada
Canadian Coast Guard
File:LSL HalifaxHarbour.jpg
CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent in Halifax Harbour
Heavy Icebreaker
- CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent
- CCGS Terry Fox
- CCGS John G. Diefenbaker (Proposed)
- CCGS John A. Macdonald (Decommissioned 1991 and scrapped 1994)
- CCGS D'Iberville (Decommissioned and scrapped)
- CCGS N.B. McLean (Decommissioned and scrapped)
Icebreaker
- CCGS Alexander Henry (Decommissioned)
- CCGS Amundsen (ex. CCGS Sir John Franklin)
- CCGS Des Groseilliers
- CCGS Henry Larsen
- CCGS Labrador (Decommissioned)
- CCGS Pierre Radisson
- CCGS Sir John Franklin (now CCGS Amundsen)
- CCGS Ernest Lapointe (Decommissioned, now museum ship)
- CGS Mikula (Decommissioned)
- CGS Northern Light (Decommissioned)
- CCGS Saurel (Decommissioned)
- Robert Lemeur (Decommissioned)
Light Icebreaker
- CCGS Samuel Risley
- CCGS Ann Harvey (St. John's, NL)
- CCGS Edward Cornwallis (Dartmouth, NS)
- CCGS George R. Pearkes
- CCGS Griffon
- CCGS J.E. Bernier (Decommissioned)
- CCGS Martha L. Black (St. John's, NL)
- CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- CCGS Sir William Alexander (Dartmouth)
- CCGS Earl Grey (Charlottetown, PEI)
- CCGS Bartlett (Decommissioned)
- CCGS Provo Wallis
- CCGS Simcoe (Built 1962)
- CCGS Tracy
- CCGS Cygnus
- CCGS Leonard J. Cowley
- CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Marine Atlantic
- MV Caribou (Gulfspan ferry)
- MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood (Gulfspan ferry)
- MV Leif Ericson
Ontario Power Generation
Voisey's Bay Nickel Company
Other
- Vladimir Ignatyuk (ex-Arctic Kalvik)
- MV Polar Star (icebreaker)
- William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat) - Toronto Fire Services
China
Chile
Denmark
File:Ice breakers Danbjorn and Thorbjorn in Frederikshavn.jpg
Danbjørn, Isbjørn and Thorbjørn (Frederikshavn)
Estonia
Finland
File:Jäänmurtajia Katajanokan laiturissa.jpg
Six Finnish icebreakers docked for the summer season at Katajanokka, Helsinki
Finnish Maritime Administration
Commercial
Maritime Museum of Finland
France
Germany
File:Icebreakergermanyeast.jpg
German icebreaker
International
Japan
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Japan Coast Guard
- Sōya (宗谷, PL107) post World War II - 1978
- Sōya (そうや, PHL01) 1978 -
- Teshio
Norway
- NoCGV Svalbard icebreaker and coast guard vessel
Russia
Nuclear powered
- Ocean Icebreakers
- NS Lenin (decommissioned, museum ship)
- NS Arktika (inactive, awaiting refit or scrapping)
- NS Sibir (inactive, awaiting refit or scrapping)
- NS Rossiya (Russia)
- NS Sovjetskij Sojuz (Soviet Union)
- NS Yamal
- NS 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years Since Victory), formerly the Ural
- River Icebreakers
File:KK 0855a.jpg
Kapitan Khlebnikov en route to Wrangel Island
Non-nuclear
- Dikson
- Kapitan Dranitsyn
- Vladimir Ignatyuk
- Kapitan Khlebnikov
- Krasin
- Saint Alexander Nevsky
- Talagi (ex-Canmar Kigoriak of Canada)
- Yermak
- Magadan
- Sakhalin
- Akademik Fyodorov
- Ivan Susanin class icebreaker - armed patrol vessels operated by the Russian Maritime Border Guard
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Swedish Maritime Administration
File:Ymer in ice.jpg
Swedish icebreaker Ymer
- Atle I (formerly known as Statsisbrytaren)
- Ymer I
- Thule
- Oden I
- Tor
- Njord
- Ale
- Atle II
- Frej
- Ymer II
- Oden II
Commercially owned
United Kingdom
File:HMSEndurance Portsmouth1.jpg
HMS Endurance in Portsmouth
United States
National Science Foundation
New York Power Authority
United States Coast Guard
Heavy Icebreaker
- USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) (Commissioned 2000)
- USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) (Commissioned 1976, placed in a "Commission-Special" (Reserve) status 2006)
- USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) (Commissioned 1978)
Icebreaker
- USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) (Decommissioned and museum ship 2006)
- USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) (Commissioned 2006)
- USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) (Decommissioned and scrapped in 1974)
- USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279) (Decommissioned and sold in 1967)
- USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) (Decommissioned and sold in 1976)
- USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)(Decommissioned 1988, scrapped in Asia)
- USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) (Decommissioned 1988, scrapped in Texas)
- USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283) (Decommissioned 1978, sold 1980, scrapped 1982)
- USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284) (Scrapped 1980)
- USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4) (Decommissioned, museum ship effort underway 2009)
References
- ↑ Steamer-icebreaker Suur Tõll on Estonian Maritime Museum web
- ↑ "R/V Laurence M. Gould". National Science Foundation. http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/support/gould.jsp. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- ↑ "R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer". National Science Foundation. http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/support/nathpalm.jsp. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- Ilmari Aro (17 November 2008). [http://portal.fma.fi/sivu/www/baltice/jaanmurtajalista.pdf "THE WORLD ICEBREAKER AND ICEBREAKING
SUPPLY VESSEL FLEET"]. Baltic Icebreaking Management. http://portal.fma.fi/sivu/www/baltice/jaanmurtajalista.pdf. Retrieved 7 april, 2010.
