Virtual Globetrotting: Sea

Virtual Globetrotting: Sea - Icebreakers http://virtualglobetrotting.com/ A great way to explore everything that can be seen from space! en-us Copyright 2009 admin@virtualglobetrotting.com (Nic) admin@virtualglobetrotting.com (Nic) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:53:17 -0700 http://backend.userland.com/rss <![CDATA[Canadian Coast Guard High-endurance Multi-tasked Vessel]]>

Canadian Coast Guard High-endurance Multi-tasked Vessel

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Canadian Coast Guard High-endurance Multi-tasked Vessel
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By: kjfitz
@ 2009-04-15 15:53:17
Large multi-taskable vessels approximately 85 metres long, with an icebreaking capability that allows them to work mainly in southern waters and in the western Arctic.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/canadian-coast-guard-high-endurance-multi-tasked-vessel/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/canadian-coast-guard-high-endurance-multi-tasked-vessel/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:53:17 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/canadian-coast-guard-high-endurance-multi-tasked-vessel/ 48.42043100 -123.38861600 <![CDATA[R/V Akademik Fyodorov (Research vessel)]]>

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R/V Akademik Fyodorov (Research vessel)
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-11-07 10:51:15]]>

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R/V Akademik Fyodorov (Research vessel)
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-11-07 10:51:15]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/r-v-akademik-fyodorov-research-vessel/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/r-v-akademik-fyodorov-research-vessel/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:51:15 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/r-v-akademik-fyodorov-research-vessel/ -37.81810561 144.92792835 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Tarmo]]>

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Icebreaker Tarmo
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:59]]>

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Icebreaker Tarmo
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:59]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-tarmo-1/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-tarmo-1/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:43:59 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-tarmo-1/ 60.46958811 26.94147732 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Atle]]>

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Icebreaker Atle
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:51]]>

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Icebreaker Atle
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:51]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-atle/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-atle/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:43:51 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-atle/ 65.57261355 22.17013559 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Ymer]]>

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Icebreaker Ymer
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:43]]>

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Icebreaker Ymer
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:43]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-ymer/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-ymer/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:43:43 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-ymer/ 65.57159947 22.17029410 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Frej]]>

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Icebreaker Frej
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:33]]>

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Icebreaker Frej
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By: Rene73
@ 2008-03-26 14:43:33]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-frej/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-frej/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:43:33 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-frej/ 65.57173577 22.17185262 <![CDATA[Voima]]>

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Voima
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By: Accagas
@ 2008-02-18 02:52:46
The MS Voima is Finnish icebreaker.]]>

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Voima
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By: Accagas
@ 2008-02-18 02:52:46
The MS Voima is Finnish icebreaker.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/voima/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/voima/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:52:46 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/voima/ 60.44917585 22.04638481 <![CDATA[Otso]]>

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Otso
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By: Accagas
@ 2008-02-18 02:49:29
The MS Otso is Finnish icebreaker.]]>

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Otso
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By: Accagas
@ 2008-02-18 02:49:29
The MS Otso is Finnish icebreaker.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/otso/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/otso/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:49:29 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/otso/ 60.45126500 22.03061800 <![CDATA[Former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Alexander Henry]]>

Former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Alexander Henry

Former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Alexander Henry
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By: kjfitz
@ 2008-02-05 14:39:32
CCGS Alexander Henry is a former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and currently a museum ship preserved at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario.

Built at Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur, she was commissioned into the Department of Transport's Marine Service as CGS Alexander Henry using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship". She was transferred in 1962 to the newly-created Canadian Coast Guard and is named after Alexander Henry, an 18th Century British explorer and fur trapper.

CCGS Alexander Henry served her entire coast guard career on the Great Lakes. She was launched in 1958, commissioned in 1959, and retired from service in 1984 after CCGS Samuel Risley entered service.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/former-canadian-coast-guard-icebreaker-ccgs-alexander-henry/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/former-canadian-coast-guard-icebreaker-ccgs-alexander-henry/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:39:32 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/former-canadian-coast-guard-icebreaker-ccgs-alexander-henry/ 44.22473200 -76.48254600 <![CDATA[Icebreaker SS Sankt Erik]]>

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Icebreaker SS Sankt Erik
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By: kjfitz
@ 2007-12-06 16:35:58
The SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker, and a museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

She was launched in 1915 as the Isbrytaren II, and was a conventionally constructed Baltic icebreaker, with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull. She also has heeling tanks which can be filled and emptied with seawater in turn to rock the ship to widen the channel. Her reciprocating steam engines are the most powerful functioning ones in Sweden.

Although she was the country's first large icebreaker, she was owned by the city of Stockholm and used to keep the channels around it clear of ice. She was also sometimes used outside of the Stockholm area by the Swedish government since they had contributed towards her cost.

She was renamed in 1958 during an extensive refit, which saw her converted from coal to oil, the bridge was enclosed to protect the deck crew from the weather, and radar and radio fitted.]]>

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Russian Icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica

Russian Icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica
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By: kjfitz
@ 2007-06-02 15:26:21
Near Mirny Station.]]>

Russian Icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica
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By: kjfitz
@ 2007-06-02 15:26:21
Near Mirny Station.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/russian-icebreaker-off-the-coast-of-antarctica/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/russian-icebreaker-off-the-coast-of-antarctica/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:26:21 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/russian-icebreaker-off-the-coast-of-antarctica/ -66.54654700 92.96725000 <![CDATA[Danish icebreakers]]>

Danish icebreakers
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2007-03-04 09:56:00
Denmark has three icebreakers, all seen here at Frederikshavn. The two sisterships in the map are Danbjørn (A551) and Isbjørn (A552), both launched in 1965, and the outermost one is Thorbjørn (A553) launched in 1980. They were originally operated by the Ministry of Industrial Affairs and partly manned with a staff from the Royal Danish Navy. After January 1, 1996 they were officially transferred to the Navy.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/danish-icebreakers/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/danish-icebreakers/ Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:56:00 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/danish-icebreakers/ 57.43053200 10.54268500 <![CDATA[Antarctic oceanographic research ship / icebreaker Polarstern]]>

Antarctic oceanographic research ship / icebreaker Polarstern

Antarctic oceanographic research ship / icebreaker Polarstern
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By: kjfitz
@ 2007-02-09 21:08:20
Real-time tracking

PFS Polarstern (meaning pole star) is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. The Polarstern was put into commission in 1982 and is mainly used for research in the Arctic and Antarctica.

Polarstern was built by the Howaldtswerke/Deutsche Werft at Kiel and the Werft Nobiskrug at Rendsburg. The ship has a length of 118 metres (387 feet).

Polarstern is a double-hulled icebreaker. It is operational at temperatures as low as -50 °C. (-58°F) Polarstern can break through ice 1.5 metres thick at a speed of 5 knots. Thicker ice must be broken by ramming.

Official site]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/antarctic-oceanographic-research-ship-icebreaker-polarstern/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/antarctic-oceanographic-research-ship-icebreaker-polarstern/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:08:20 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/antarctic-oceanographic-research-ship-icebreaker-polarstern/ 53.56274700 8.55720700 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Fuji - Antarctic Museum]]>

Icebreaker Fuji - Antarctic Museum
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By: kjfitz
@ 2007-01-21 02:33:23
The floating Fuji Antarctic Museum is moored on the opposite side of the pier. The museum itself is an expedition ship that explored the Antarctic for 18 years between 1965 and 1983. The interior of the ship is reproduced as it was during its service, and videos, panels and diorama are used to introduce the nature of the Antarctic as well as how the researches were conducted.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-fuji-antarctic-museum/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-fuji-antarctic-museum/ Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:33:23 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-fuji-antarctic-museum/ 35.09068900 136.88049700 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Stephan Jantzen]]>

Icebreaker Stephan Jantzen
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2006-04-30 13:00:23
Icebreaker Stephan Jantzen was built at the Admiralty Shipyard, Leningrad, in 1967 as Dobrynja Nikitisj. I don't know when she was transferred to Germany, probably sometime in the 1990s as she is still listed as Russian in the 1990/91 Weyers Flotten Taschenbuch. In 2004 she was replaced in service by new icebreaker Arkona and she was intended to be decommissioned in March 2005 and put up for sale by VEBEG GmbH.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-stephan-jantzen/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-stephan-jantzen/ Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:00:23 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-stephan-jantzen/ 54.30549200 13.11542800 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Varma]]>

Icebreaker Varma
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2006-03-20 05:05:17
Icebreaker Varma, owned and operated by the Riga port is the sistership of Estonian Tarmo. Varma was built for Finnish Maritime Administration in 1968 and sold to Latvia in 1994.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-varma/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-varma/ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:05:17 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-varma/ 57.03221300 24.08642500 <![CDATA[US Coast Guard Ice Breaker 'Polar Sea' (WAGB-11)]]>

US Coast Guard Ice Breaker 'Polar Sea' (WAGB-11)

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US Coast Guard Ice Breaker 'Polar Sea' (WAGB-11)
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By: kjfitz
@ 2006-03-07 13:19:40
POLAR SEA and her sister ship, POLAR STAR, are the world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreakers. Built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington, the two powerful icebreakers are based at the Seattle Coast Guard Support Center at Pier 36.

The Polar Class icebreakers are two of the largest cutters operated by the Coast Guard. These cutters, specifically designed for open-water icebreaking have reinforced hulls, special icebreaking bows, and a system that allows rapid shifting of ballast to increase the effectiveness of their icebreaking. The Polar Sea and Polar Star were built in the 1970s. They serve in Arctic/Antarctic serving science and research as well as providing supplies to remote stations. Both Polar Class icebreakers are under the control of Pacific Area, Ice Operations Section.]]>

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US Coast Guard Ice Breaker 'Polar Star' (WAGB-10) in dry dock

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US Coast Guard Ice Breaker 'Polar Star' (WAGB-10) in dry dock
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By: kjfitz
@ 2006-03-07 12:37:22
POLAR STAR and her sister ship, POLAR SEA, are the world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreakers. Built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington, the two powerful icebreakers are based at the Seattle Coast Guard Support Center at Pier 36.

The Polar Class icebreakers are two of the largest cutters operated by the Coast Guard. These cutters, specifically designed for open-water icebreaking have reinforced hulls, special icebreaking bows, and a system that allows rapid shifting of ballast to increase the effectiveness of their icebreaking. The Polar Sea and Polar Star were built in the 1970s. They serve in Arctic/Antarctic serving science and research as well as providing supplies to remote stations. Both Polar Class icebreakers are under the control of Pacific Area, Ice Operations Section.

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Icebreaker Tarmo
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2006-02-02 10:36:13
Name ship of the Finnish Tarmo-class, she was built in 1963 and served under Finnish flag until 1993. It is now the only working icebrreaker in Estonia and it is not to be confused with earlier Tarmo, the World's oldest surviving icebreaker (1907) which is currently a museum in Kotka, Finland.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-tarmo/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-tarmo/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:36:13 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-tarmo/ 59.45972500 24.71947400 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Suur Tõll]]>

Icebreaker Suur Tõll
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2006-02-02 10:09:46
Icebreaker Suur Tõll is the largest preserved steam icebreaker in the world. She was built by the Vulcan Werft, Stettin 1912-14 for the Russian government as the Tsar Mihhail Feodorovits. During the Russian Revolution she was renamed Volynets and in March 1918 she was captured by the Finns and renamed Wäinämöinen. She was then handed over to Estonia in 1922 and again renamed. Now she became Suur Tõll after a mythological hero from Saaremaa. In 1940 she was captured by the Soviets and became Volynets again and served until early 1980's. Today she ibelongs to Eesti Meremuuseum (Estonian Maritime Museum) and is currently undergoing restoration.]]>

Finnish icebreakers
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2006-01-25 13:36:47
Finnish icebreakers at their summer base in Helsinki]]>

Finnish icebreakers
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2006-01-25 13:36:47
Finnish icebreakers at their summer base in Helsinki]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/finnish-icebreakers/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/finnish-icebreakers/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:36:47 -0800 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/finnish-icebreakers/ 60.16947700 24.97399400 <![CDATA[Two icebreakers]]>

Two icebreakers
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2005-08-09 16:00:55]]>

Two icebreakers
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2005-08-09 16:00:55]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/two-icebreakers/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/two-icebreakers/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:00:55 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/two-icebreakers/ 59.91270300 30.24113400 <![CDATA[Icebreaker Krasin]]>

Icebreaker Krasin
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By: Hinkkanen
@ 2005-08-09 15:51:57
This is icebreaker Krasin, built in 1916 as Svyatogor and renamed Krasin in 1926 and was until the 1950's the most powerful icebreaker in the world. She was modernized in DDR in the 1950.s. She made her last voyage in 1990 and is currently a museum ship in St. Petersburg.]]> http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-krasin/ http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-krasin/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:51:57 -0700 http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/icebreaker-krasin/ 59.92769500 30.26958700