ATOMIC ICEBREAKER TAIMYR

Atomic icebreaker TAIMYR will enter service in the USSR Icebreaker Fleet in 1989. This will be the first of two nuclear-powered icebreakers with a restricted draught, built at the Wartsila yard in Finland as a combined Finnish/USSR project. The ships will operate in the Arctic waters and in the shallow Siberian river-mouths. The machinery will be installed at the Baltic Yard in Leningrad. Principal particulars are: length oa 150.2m, design wl 140.8m; breadth oa 29.2m, design wl 28m; draught, max. 9m, design wl 8.1m; depth 15.15m; max. propeller-shaft power in ice 35.5 megawatts. At 32.5 megawatts the icebreaker will be capable of passing through ice 1.8m thick, at a speed of 2 kn; in free water the speed is 18.5 kn at 25 megawatts. General arrangement is given.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Morskoi Flot, (1987), p. 42 (Aug.) [8 pp., 8 phot.]
• Authors:
  • Okolnichnikov, A
  • Khudin, V
• Publication Date: 1987

Language

• Russian

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Icebreakers
• Old TRIS Terms: Taimyr
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00693823
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM