Kapitan Dranitsyn

Kapitan Dranitsyn in 2006
History
Russia
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:
Status: In service
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Icebreaker
Tonnage:
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)
Propulsion:
  • Diesel-electric; three shafts (3 × 5,400 kW)
  • Three 4-bladed fixed-pitch propellers
Speed:
  • 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) in open water
  • 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) in 1.3 m (4.3 ft) level ice[2]
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.

In January 2017, the ship was trapped in ice off the coast of Pevek on the Chukchi Peninsula.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Kapitan Dranitsyn (790179)". Register of ships. Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
  2. ↑ The world icebreaker, ice breaking supply and research vessel fleet Archived April 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.. Baltic Ice Management, February 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
  3. ↑ "Information on RV Kapitan Dranitsyn". Federal Target Program World Ocean (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  4. ↑ "Kapitan Dranitsyn". Eagles Cry Adventures. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  5. 1 2 "Marine Reports - 1996 - M96H0016". Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  6. ↑ "Bulk Carriers Stuck in Ice off Chukchi Peninsula". Maritime Executive. January 18, 2017. Archived from the original on January 22, 2017. Two bulk carriers and two icebreakers are stuck in the ice off the Russian coast near Pevek on the Chukchi Peninsula (Chukotka Peninsula). The Russian Emergencies Ministry has issued a statement saying: “According to the captain of the Kapitan Dranitsyn vessel, the situation is not critical. There is no tension among the crew. There are food and fuel reserves. After getting more information about ice conditions the convoy will proceed on the route.”
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