Pilot was used between 1864-1890 for navigation in the Gulf of Finland between Kronstadt and Oranienbaum thus extending the summer navigation season by several weeks.
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Built on the orders of merchant and shipbuilder Mikhail Britnev, it had the bow altered to achieve an ice-clearing capability (20° raise from keel line).
Part of a series of ships, she was designed to navigate the Arctic waters and was fitted with an ice-breaking bow.
SS Baikal was an ice-breaking train ferry that linked the eastern and western portions of the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Lake Baikal.
He has been associated with ensembles such as the Asko Ensemble, musikFabrik, Ensemble MAE, Icebreaker, Seattle Chamber Players, and Ensemble Integrales and musicians such as Andy Moor from the Ex and trumpeter Marco Blaauw.
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On July 30, 2013 50 Years of Victory reached the North Pole for the 100th time in the history of icebreaker navigation during one of Poseidon Expeditions cruises.
The Canadian Government Ship Stanley has been described as Canada's first truly effective icebreaker.
Rebuilt, the icebreaker is now plying the waters of the Arctic Ocean.
Icebreaking supply and standby vessel SCF Sakhalin, delivered in 2005 as FESCO Sakhalin, was the first large-scale double acting icebreaker.
In a protest against Arctic ice drilling a year earlier, members of Greenpeace had illegally boarded the multipurpose icebreakers Fennica and Nordica operated by the state-owned company Arctia Shipping under contract to the Royal Dutch Shell.
Some are skinable; The open source Icebreaker's default skin varies radically from JezzBall, using Tux, the Linux mascot, in place of balls.
Krasin Nunataks, a group of nunataks, in the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land, named after the first icebreaker Krasin
The Somov Sea north of Victoria Land and a glacier in Queen Maud Land (both East Antarctica) bear Mikhail Somov's name, as well as a scientific icebreaker.
Like the older Finnish multipurpose icebreakers, Botnica was chartered to DSND Offshore AS for 180 days per year, while in the winter months she was employed as a traditional escort icebreaker in the Baltic Sea.
There have also been concerns about the legal liability in case of an oil spill after a report by the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy claimed that the Finnish State could be held liable and the compensations could include the entire property of Arctia Shipping, the state-owned shipping company that owns and operates the Finnish icebreaker fleet.
An old Japanese war vessel called the Soya, who had recently survived the war was repaired and redesigned as the first Icebreaker ship for the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, and fifty-three men were chosen for the journey to the continent.
The former United States Coast Guard icebreaker USCG Snohomish was leased in 2005 to serve as a commercial icebreaker.
Polarstern is also the name of the first track of Eisbrecher's (German for Icebreaker) first album, Eisbrecher.
By June 1896 the icebreaker had been delivered for assembly to the village of Listvenichnoye.