Oblique icebreaker Baltika completes ice trials (photo)
On April 2, 2015, innovative multipurpose icebreaking emergency and rescue vessel Baltika successfully completed her ice trials, says Sea Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot.
The tests were held in the Kara Sea off island Bely near the Ob Bay and at port Sabetta. The tests included the assessment of the ship controllability and maneuverability in ice conditions, measuring of the hull strength as well as ice thickness and strength.
The vessel has demonstrated her perfect ice performance having successfully passed 1.5 meter thick ice, the statement says. With her 20.5 meter wide asymmetric hull and three propulsors, the vessel can make a 50 meter wide channel in 80 cm thick ice.
Representatives of Aker Arctic Technology, Yantar, Arctech Helsinki Shipyard and State Customer’s Direction were onboard the ship during the test.
The innovative vessel Baltika is the world’s first ice-class emergency and rescue ship with an asymmetric hull. In combination with the three 360 degrees rotating propulsors (total power of 7.5 MW) this hull shape ensures efficient steering in any situation and any direction, as well as dynamic positioning amid waves of over 5 meters. This has been proved by the trials. In oblique mode the vessel will be able to generate 50 m wide channel.
The vessel was laid down in Kaliningrad on June 6, 2012. Under the contract, Yantar, as the principal executor of the order, was in charge of hull works. They were completed in May 2013 and the ship then underwent fitting-out in Finland. Baltika was launched on December 12, 2013 and fulfilled the programme of sea trials in the Baltic Sea. In late 2014, FBI Sea Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot (Federal Marine and River Transport Agency) accepted the ship into service with Big Port St. Petersburg as the port of registration.
Main particulars: Length - 76.4 m, Breadth overall - 20.5 m, Draught - 6.3 m, Propulsion power - 7.5 МW, Speed - 14 knots, Crew - 24, Special personnel - 12, Sea endurance - 20 days.
The innovative project Р-70202 was developed by Aker Arctic Technology (Finland).
Class notation: KM✪Icebreaker6, [1], AUT1-ICS, OMBO, FF3WS, EPP, DYNPOS-1, ECO-S, Oil recovery ship (>60°C), Salvage ship, Tug.
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