Kapitan Dranitsyn
 Kapitan Dranitsyn in 2006 | |
| History | |
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 Russia
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| Name: | Kapitan Dranitsyn |
| Owner: | Russian Federation |
| Operator: | Murmansk Shipping Company |
| Port of registry: |
Murmansk,  Russia[1] |
| Builder: | Wärtsilä, Helsinki New Shipyard, Finland |
| Yard number: | 413[1] |
| Launched: | 1975 |
| Completed: | 2 December 1980[1] |
| Identification: |
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| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Icebreaker |
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| Displacement: | 14,917 tons |
| Length: | 129.02 m (423.3 ft) (overall) |
| Beam: | 26.54 m (87.1 ft) |
| Draft: | 8.50 m (27.9 ft) |
| Depth: | 12.30 m (40.4 ft) |
| Ice class: | RMRS LL3 |
| Installed power: | 6 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer 9ZL40/48 (6 × 3,040 kW) |
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| Capacity: | 102 passengers |
| Crew: | 60 |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter deck |
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 Franz Josef Land, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya, and Chukotka, to Bering Strait and even to the North Pole (with the help of a nuclear-powered icebreaker). 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 Kapitan Dranitsyn took part in shooting an advertising film for the Ford Motor Company in the Spitsbergen Archipelago.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Kapitan Dranitsyn (790179)". Register of ships. Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
- ↑ The world icebreaker, ice breaking supply and research vessel fleet. Baltic Ice Management, February 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ↑ "Information on RV Kapitan Dranitsyn". Federal Target Program World Ocean (in Russian). Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ↑ "Kapitan Dranitsyn". Eagles Cry Adventures. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- 1 2 "Marine Reports - 1996 - M96H0016". Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kapitan Dranitsyn. |
- Page devoted to the Kapitan Dranitsyn from VICTORY adventure EXPEDITIONS.
- Page devoted to my Kapitan Dranitsyn trip to Antarctica in 2001 "Quark Expedition in the Kapitan Dranitsyn."