BALTIKA

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Russia’s Oblique Icebreaker “Baltika” Tested in Arctic Ice

altika, the first ship ever built with an asymmetric hull form, demonstrated what she was designed to do while conducting full scale ice trials recently. The ship was designed by Aker Arctic as an icebreaking escort vessel with a hull that allows it to break ice while operating ahead, astern or in the above case, sideways. The latter operation is utilized to open a channel for vessels that are much wider than the actual beam of the relatively small icebreaker. The vessel was launched lat year and departed from Murmansk on 20 March 2015 to conduct full scale ice trials with the Aker Arctic team on board. The crew sailed around the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya and across the Kara Sea to the Gulf of Ob, close to the Sabetta terminal area where the tests were conducted. http://gcaptain.com/oblique-icebreaker-baltika-tested-arctic-ice/

Rosmorrechflot accepts into service icebreaker Baltika

The acceptance commission of the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot) has accepted into service a multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel Baltika of project Р-70202. The vessel registered at Big Port St. Petersburg is to be operated by FBI Sea Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot, ps of Rosmorrechflot says. Representatives of Rosmorrechflot’s Sea Rescue Service have signed the acceptance service today, December 30, 2014. The construction of the vessel was ordered by FGI Directorate of State Contracting Authority for Marine Transport Development Programme within the framework of the federal special-purpose programme “Development of Russia’s Transport System (2010-2020 годы)”. The design was developed by Shipyard Yantar (Russia, Kaliningrad region) jointly with Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc. (Finland). The vessel was built at the production facilities of the Finnish company in Helsinki. The innovative vessel Baltika is the world’s first icebreaking ship with an asymmetric hull. The vessel features an asymmetric hull, patented oblique design and three 360 degrees rotating propulsors, which allow the vessel to operate efficiently sideways, astern and ahead. In oblique mode the vessel will be able to generate 50 m wide channel in 0.6 m thick ice. Bow and stern first the vessel can operate in 1.0 m thick ice. The icebreaker’s main particulars: Length - 76.4 m, Breadth overall - 20.5 m, Depth – 9m; Draught maximum - 7 m, Propulsion power - 7.5 МW, Speed - 14 knots, Speed in flat ice 1.0 m thick - 3.0 knots, Crew - 24, Special personnel - 12, Sea endurance - 20 days (24 persons); Class notation – KM Icebreaker6, [1], AUT1-ICS, OMBO, FF3WS, EPP, DYNPOS-1, ECO-S, Oil recovery ship (>60°C), Salvage ship, Tug, HELIDECK. The vessel was laid down in Kaliningrad on June 6, 2012. Source: portnews

Oblique icebreaker Baltika of project Р-70202 arrives at Yantar shipyard

On May 21, 2014, multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel BALTIKA of innovative project Р-70202 arrived at Baltic Shipbuilding Plant “Yantar”, the shipyard says in its press release. The world’s first icebreaking ship with an asymmetric hull and ability to operate sideways has been built by Kaliningrad shipbuilders in cooperation with Finnish colleagues. BALTIKA has been delivered to Kaliningrad by two tugboats from Helsinki where she had undergone fitting-out and testing at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard. The delivery certificate will be soon signed at Yantar and the ship will be delivered to the customer in Saint-Petersburg. The customer is the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency of Russia which signed the contract with Yantar on November 9, 2011. 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.