RV Sikuliaq
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RV Sikuliaq is an American research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Built in 2014 by Marinette Marine Corporation in Marinette, Wisconsin, the $200 million vessel replaced the 1966-built research vessel Alpha Helix that was retired in 2007. Sikuliaq, named after the Iñupiaq word for "young sea ice" and pronounced "see-KOO-lee-auk", is homeported in Seward, Alaska.
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Sikuliaq at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in August 2014. Since then, the vessel has been painted in a different livery. | |
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Name | Sikuliaq |
Namesake | Iñupiaq for "young sea ice" |
Owner | National Science Foundation[1] |
Operator | University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences |
Port of registry | Seward, Alaska[2] |
Ordered | 5 February 2010 |
Builder | Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin |
Cost | US$200 million (2010) |
Yard number | 650[2] |
Laid down | 11 April 2011 |
Launched | 13 October 2012 |
Completed | 6 June 2014[2] |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics [2][3] | |
Type | Research vessel |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | 3,665 long tons (3,724 t) |
Length | 79.6 m (261 ft) |
Beam | 15.85 m (52 ft) |
Draft | 5.715 m (19 ft) |
Depth | 8.5 m (28 ft) |
Ice class | Polar Class 5 |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | Diesel-electric; two Wärtsilä Icepod 2500 azimuth thrusters |
Speed |
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Range | 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km; 21,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)[4] |
Endurance | 45 days |
Capacity |
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Crew | 20 (+2) |
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