List of icebreakers

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This is a list of icebreakers, ships designed to operate in ice-covered waters.

Contents 1 Argentina 2 Australia 3 Canada 3.1 Canadian Coast Guard 3.1.1 Heavy Icebreaker 3.1.2 Icebreaker 3.1.3 Light Icebreaker 3.2 Marine Atlantic 3.3 Ontario Power Generation 3.4 The Fednav Group 3.5 Voisey's Bay Nickel Company 3.6 Other 4 China 5 Chile 6 Denmark 7 Estonia 8 Finland 8.1 Finnish Maritime Administration 8.2 Commercial 8.3 Maritime Museum of Finland 9 France 10 Germany 11 International 12 Japan 13 Norway 14 Russia 14.1 Nuclear powered 14.2 Non-nuclear 15 Sweden 15.1 Swedish Maritime Administration 15.2 Comercially owned 16 United Kingdom 17 United States 17.1 National Science Foundation 17.2 United States Coast Guard 17.2.1 Heavy Icebreaker 17.2.2 Icebreaker 17.2.3 References

[edit] Argentina

Argentine Navy

• ARA Almirante Irízar (Q-5)
• ARA General San Martín (Q-4)

[edit] Australia

• Aurora Australis

[edit] Canada

[edit] Canadian Coast Guard

[edit] Heavy Icebreaker

• CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent
• CCGS Terry Fox
• CCGS John A. MacDonald (Decommissioned 1991 and scrapped 1994)
• CCGS D'Iberville (Decommissioned and scrapped)
• CCGS N.B. McLean (Decommissioned and scrapped)

[edit] Icebreaker

• CCGS Alexander Henry (decommissioned)
• CCGS Amundsen (ex. CCGS Sir John Franklin)
• CCGS Des Groseilleirs
• CCGS Henry Larsen
• CCGS Labrador (decommissioned)
• CCGS Pierre Radisson
• CCGS Sir John Franklin (now CCGS Amundsen)
• CCGS Ernest Lapointe (Decommissioned, now museum ship)
• CGS Mikula (Long ago decommissioned)
• CGS Northern Light (Decommissioned and sold, long ago)
• CCGS Saurel (Decommissioned)
• Robert Lemeur (decommissioned)

[edit] Light Icebreaker

• CCGS Samuel Risley
• CCGS Ann Harvey (St. John's, NL)
• CCGS Edward Cornwallis (Dartmouth, NS)
• CCGS George R. Pearkes
• CCGS Griffon
• CCGS J.E. Bernier (Decommissioned)
• CCGS Martha L. Black (St. John's, NL)
• CCGS Sir Wilfred Laurier
• CCGS Sir William Alexander (Dartmouth)
• CCGS Earl Grey (Charlottetown, PEI)
• CCGS Bartlett (Decommissioned)
• CCGS Provo Wallis
• CCGS Simcoe (Built 1962)
• CCGS Tracy
• CCGS Cygnus
• CCGS Leonard J. Cowley
• CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell

[edit] Marine Atlantic

• MV Caribou (Gulfspan ferry)
• MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood (Gulfspan ferry)
• MV Leif Ericson

[edit] Ontario Power Generation

• Niagara Queen II

[edit] The Fednav Group

• MV Arctic

[edit] Voisey's Bay Nickel Company

• Umiak I

[edit] Other

• Arctic Kalvik
• MV Polar Star

[edit] China

• MV Xue Long

[edit] Chile

• Contraalmirante Oscar Viel Toro

[edit] Denmark

• Icebraker A551 Danbjørn
• Icebraker A552 Isbjørn
• Icebraker A553 Thorbjørn

[edit] Estonia

• Suur Tõll Steamer-icebreaker, Built in 1914 in Stettin (Szczecin) by Vulkan-Werke A. G. ^[1]

[edit] Finland

[edit] Finnish Maritime Administration

• MS Fennica
• MS Nordica
• MS Botnica
• MS Kontio
• MS Otso
• MS Urho
• MS Sisu
• MS Voima

[edit] Commercial

• MV Sampo
• MT Tempera and MT Mastera

[edit] Maritime Museum of Finland

• MS Tarmo in Kotka

[edit] France

• Astrolabe

[edit] Germany

• Polarstern
• Stettin
• Eisvogel class icebreaker - German Navy

[edit] International

• Greenpeace
  • MV Arctic Sunrise

[edit] Japan

• Shirase
• Soya
• Fuji

[edit] Norway

• KV Svalbard icebreaker and coast guard vessel

[edit] Russia

[edit] Nuclear powered

• NS 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years Since Victory)
• Arktika
• Lenin
• Taimyr
• Vaigach
• Yamal

[edit] Non-nuclear

• Dikson
• Kapitan Dranitsyn
• Vladimir Ignatyuk
• Kapitan Khlebnikov
• Krasin
• Saint Alexander Nevsky
• Talagi(ex-Canmar Kigoriak of Canada)
• Yermak
• Magadan
• Sakhalin
• Akademik Fyodorov

[edit] Sweden

[edit] Swedish Maritime Administration

• Atle I (formerly known as Statsisbrytaren)
• Ymer I
• Thule
• Oden I
• Tor
• Njord
• Ale
• Atle II
• Frej
• Ymer II
• Oden II

[edit] Comercially owned

• Tor Viking
• Vidar Viking
• Balder Viking

[edit] United Kingdom

• HMS Endurance
• RRS James Clark Ross

[edit] United States

[edit] National Science Foundation

• Laurence M. Gould^[2]
• Nathaniel B. Palmer^[3]

[edit] United States Coast Guard

[edit] Heavy Icebreaker

• USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
• USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10)
• USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11)

[edit] Icebreaker

• USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) (Decommissioned 2006)
• USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) (Commissioned 2006)
• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
• USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279)
• USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280)
• USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)
• USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282)
• USCGC Burton Island (WAGB-283)
• USCGC Edisto (WAGB-284)
• USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4)

[edit] References

1. ^ Steamer-icebreaker Suur Tõll on Estonian Maritime Museum web
2. ^ R/V Laurence M. Gould. National Science Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
3. ^ R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. National Science Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.