Georgiy Chystyakov
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With the SA-15 type #Arctic freighter Nizhneyansk out of its glass prison after more than 20 years, the last #icebreaking ships in our model-scale fleet have been moved to a temporary summer lay-up in the outfitting workshop.
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@nyklineofficial Do you have this beautiful photo in high resolutіon ?
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📢12隻連続建造シリーズのLNG燃料自動車専用船を「Elder Leader」と命名！
当社は3月31日、新来島どっくで建造を進めていたLNG（液化天然ガス）燃料自動車専用船の竣工にあたって新来島豊橋造船所で命名式を実施し、本船を「Elder Leader」と命名しました✨
本船は、当社が推進するLNG燃料自動車専用船の連続建造計画シリーズ（全12隻）のうちの１隻で、脱炭素設計とマリンDXを実装する次世代型の自動車専用船です。
当社は今後も、環境性能に優れた次世代船隊の整備を加速させるとともに、パートナー企業の皆さまと連携しながら、安全で信頼性の高い完成車輸送サービスを世界に提供していきます。
詳細についてはリリースをご覧ください🔽
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#日本郵船 #日本郵船グループ #プレスリリース
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...and here's another thread I made after finding out some archive material about the unfinished Project 10621 hull that is still laid up at the Astilleros Bosnor quay in Tampico, Mexico.
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After discussing the Chinese research vessel Xue Long, I did an archive dive and came across something interesting: a visit to Kherson in 1993, plans to complete the unfinished Project 10621 hull (in Finland?), and sell it to a prospective buyer for Antarctic service.
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I actually found few older threads where I dived a bit deeper into the Project 10620 (Vasiliy Golovnin) and Project 10621 (Xue Long) #icebreaking Arctic supply ships.
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I have also excluded #icebreaking cargo ships: container ships, oil tankers, LNG carriers, etc. There are always difficult borderline cases: for example, a data set including Xue Long should probably have Vasiliy Golovnin as well... (📷 FESCO, Bahnfrend/CC BY-SA)
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@AkerArctic Please more posts with historical photos !
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@AkerArctic Hello. No other photos of sistership in archive ?
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@GeorgiyC40911 Inzhener Machulskiy and Inzhener Nicheporenko were built Hollming in Rauma so unfortunately there are no photographs of them in the Valmet collection.
However, I'll go through the archive one more time for Magnitogorsk and its sisters.
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As requested, here are a few photographs of Magnitogorsk. Four ships of this series were built in 1976–1981 and scrapped in 2009–2011.
We actually have a large sepia print of the ship under construction at Vuosaari Shipyard in our main staircase.
Georgiy Chystyakov@GeorgiyC40911
@AkerArctic @PeterOlsson Hello! Maybe do you have also some good photo of soviet Ro-Ro Magnitogorsk-type ? (sistership: Komsomolsk, Anatoliy Vasilyev, Smolensk)
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While looking for something completely different in our archives, I came across medium-format negatives from the full-scale #icebreaking trials of the former Beaudril #icebreaker Miscaroo.
Built by Vancouver Shipyards in 1983, sold to Russia in 1998, and broken up in 2017.
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@AkerArctic Can you please publish new scanning version in hi-res ?
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@GeorgiyC40911 Unfortunately I was unable to find a good picture of Anatoliy Vasilyev from this angle. I tried scanning a few but they were quite blurry when enlarged.
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@GeorgiyC40911 Unfortunately the 9x12 negative copy was fairly soft so even though I got a 280-megapixel file, the only thing in focus were the dust and scratches.
However, I think there are a few other versions that could be a little bit better. I'll take a look later this week.
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#DYK Vaygach was originally fitted with experimental "bottom ribs" to divert ice away from the propellers?
While we have the drawings, I have not found any photographs of them. I wonder if they are still there?
Perhaps someone could crawl under the bottom of the #icebreaker...
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Atomflot shared a fresh photograph of Vaygach in a dry dock in Murmansk on their Telegram channel.
This is of course a very familiar vessel to us as it is one of the two nuclear-powered #icebreakers built by Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard for the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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This picture of the SA-15 type #Arctic #icebreaking freighter Okha (Valmet 311; 1983) was in quite rough condition. I managed to tidy up most scratches and stains, but couldn't get it as clean and crisp as the other archive copies I have scanned.
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Built in Finland in the 1980s, the nineteen SA-15 type freighters once formed the backbone of the Soviet #Arctic cargo fleet. Built to the highest ice class at the time (ULA), they could break over 1-metre thick ice when operating independently without #icebreaker assistance.
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#AISspotted Kapitan Danilkin, one of the two remaining SA-15 type Arctic freighters, towed to another pier in Murmansk after a long lay-up. While the ship's classification has been withdrawn, it has been steadily transmitting AIS signal.
(AIS data via VesselFinder)
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The model in the photograph, number 003, is the Moskva-class diesel-electric #icebreaker Vladivostok that was built by Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard in 1969 (yard number 386).
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Today's archive find continues with the theme...
Our first #icebreaking laboratory, Wärtsilä Ice Model Basin (WIMB), was built in an old underground air raid shelter. It was used from 1969 until the Wärtsilä Arctic Research Centre (WARC) was inaugurated in February 1983.
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*reads news about Russia bringing an #icebreaker to the Caribbean*
"Interesting. I thought Ilya Muromets was still in Saint Pete... Oh, it's just Nikolay Chiker."
While ice-strengthened (UL), this ship is not an icebreaker.
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@GeorgiyC40911 One of the folders we have has all the photographs taken during the same flight — compare the frost pattern on the side of the hull.
Unfortunately I picked the one that was slightly out of focus or otherwise "soft", so I did not clean dust and scratches from these.
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