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Building the Baltika – the World’s First Oblique Icebreaker

Building the Baltika – the World’s First Oblique Icebreaker

Rob Almeida
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April 18, 2014

Built by Arctech Helsinki for the Russian Ministry of Transport, Baltika is the world’s first icebreaker built with an asymmetrical hull which allows it to generate a 50 meter wide channel in ice 0.6 meters thick.

The 76.4 meter ship features 9 MW of installed power via Rolls-Royce engines, 7.5 MW is dedicated to the propulsion system and its three azimuthing propulsors.

The following is a video showing the construction of the vessel and its initial sea trials in March 2014.

Baltika is classed by the Russian Register of Shipping. Read more about this vessel HERE.

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