Admiral Makarov (icebreaker)

For the Wind-class icebreaker lent to the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1949, see USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280).

Admiral Makarov (Адмирал Макаров) is a Russian icebreaker operated by the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO).^[2] Completed in 1975, she is FESCO's oldest icebreaker. Admiral Makarov and her sister ship Krasin (1976), are the largest of the four icebreakers in FESCO's fleet. She is named after the Imperial Russian Navy Admiral Stepan Makarov and was one of two icebreakers involved in Operation Breakthrough, an international effort to free three gray whales from pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska in 1988.

History
Russia
Name	Admiral Makarov
Namesake	Admiral Stepan Makarov
Owner	Far East Shipping Company[1][2]
Port of registry	Vladivostok, Russia[3]
Builder	Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Helsinki, Finland
Yard number	399[3]
Completed	12 June 1975[3]
Identification	Call sign: UGSN[3] IMO number: 7347603[3] MMSI number: 273148110[1]
Status	In service
General characteristics [3]
Class & type	Icebreaker
Tonnage	14,058 GT 4,217 NT 7,560 DWT
Displacement	20,247 tons
Length	134.84 m (442.4 ft) (overall)
Beam	25.97 m (85.2 ft) (moulded) 26.05 m (85.5 ft) (max)
Height	45.60 m (149.6 ft) from keel[2]
Draft	11.00 m (36.09 ft)
Depth	16.71 m (54.8 ft)
Ice class	LL2
Installed power	9 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer 12ZH40/48 (9 × 3,383 kW)
Propulsion	3 × Strömberg DC motors (3 × 8,820 kW) Three fixed pitch propellers
Speed	20.30 knots (37.60 km/h; 23.36 mph) (max) 19.8 knots (36.7 km/h; 22.8 mph) (service)[2] 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) in 1.8 m (5.9 ft) level ice[4]
Aviation facilities	Helipad and hangar[2]

Admiral Makarov, 1992

The ship is chartered out for scientific expeditions and used as a supplier ship.

Layout

Triple-screw, four-decker, with forecastle, poop, elongated superstructure, fore deckhouse, middle engine room, diesel-electric icebreaker with icebreaker bow and cruiser stern.^[2]

Service

• 1988: Operation Breakthrough
• 2003-2006: in the Baltic Sea - escorting vessels to and from Primorsk;^[5]
• 2006 (10-year contract): in the Tatar Strait - with icebreaker Krasin, escorting large-capacity crude oil tankers to De-Kastri, in project Sakhalin-I.^[6]