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6 diesel engines provide power to three electric motors, two in the back, one in front to create a heavy water flow around the bow so that the ice does not damage the ship. The front propeller is visible under the bow.
Built during WWII in 1944 to participate in the war effort by keeping the Great Lakes Routes open year round, the ship was decommissioned in 2006 to be open to the public in Mackinaw City.
Dry Dock Port of Lyttelton NZ
Laura Bassi (formerly Polar Queen and RRS Ernest Shackleton) is an icebreaking research vessel operated by the Italian national institute for oceongraphic and geophysical experimentation, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale [it] (OGS). Between 1999 and 2019, she was the British Antarctic Survey logistics ship, primarily used for the resupply of scientific stations in the Antarctic.
Have you ever been to Marken, the Netherlands and saw the icebreakers? Some people might forget about them and only look at the cute houses and the lighthouse. The icebreakers can be beautiful in their own way too! Even during daylight. Kind of reminds me of the Far Cry computer game.
Shot with the A7II, Zeiss 16-35 tessar, ISO 50, F12, 56s, Haida ND1000 10 stops ND filter.
Exif not showing the correct data, not sure why, maybe because something went wrong in the compositing.
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Despite a recent run of above-freezing temperatures, a thin coating of ice still covered most of Tobico Lagoon in Michigan’s Bay City State Recreation Area late last week. But this swan and its mate appeared to have broken their own channels through the ice for swimming and underwater feeding.
For Our Daily Challenge: This Is So Me… At least lately, it is, as I’ve been posting lots of shots of birds and other wildlife ever since I got my new Tamron 150-600mm lens in mid-January.
Flickr friends, I'll be offline for a good part of the day on Monday, but will catch up on comments in the evening.
The two Icebreakers - Sisu and Voima at dock in Helsinki, Finland.
I guess their duties for the winter are over and some much needed maintenance and rest for the crew is forthcoming.
Voima in the foreground was commissioned in 1954 and the background ship, Sisu in 1975.
Goes to show that these guys were built seriously tough as both are still in active duty on the Baltic Sea.
A clean shot of the scene.
Building the cracked ice pattern was a nice challenge because I don't think I've seen such a thing done before, so there wasn't any references I could use.
The technique for the wake was inspired by a MOC of a "similar" name by Adam Dodge: www.flickr.com/photos/sasklegousers/32735768885
See these strange patterns in the sea ice just off the mainland of Antarctica? This was a big moment down there because it's when the first ship arrived after a loooooong winter. This pattern was made because the icebreaker went in and made a circle so that other ships coming in could turn around and make a loop. It was fun watching the ships come in because it took many many days… and we could see the ship get a little bigger every day.
doing it, but at least, I got out of there!
- Trey Ratcliff
Click here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
IB Urho (1975) and IB Sisu (1976) are the strongest and biggest icebreakers owned by Arctia Shipping. They were originally designed to secure the round-the-year traffic of Finland's 23 winterports.
Urho and Sisu are capable to assist the traffic under all types of weather and ice conditions of the Baltic Sea.
The icebreaker Urho - named after the president of the Republic, Mr. Kekkonen - was also at the time built as a representative ship and paid visits to many cities, among others St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Stockholm and London.
Tervasaari, Helsinki. Finland. 2014.
Norwegian icebreaker D/S Isbjørn photographed in 1902 by Anders B. Wilse. Isbjørn, built in 1894 by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Kristiania (Oslo), served as icebreaker for the port of Oslo until1937, when it was sold to A/S Inger (Jacob Kjøde A/S), Bergen, in order to be used for the traffic to Svalbard. This image in the Maritime Museum of Norway archive (Digital Museum) was digitally hand painted by me.
The fate of this beautiful 35.9 m ship was sad :
"on Apr. 30-1942 Isbjørn departed Greenock for Svalbard, together with the seal catcher Selis. On board was a force of 82 men, whose task it was to regain control of Svalbard. They got as far as Isfjord, but in Grønfjord the ice stopped them, and the next evening 4 German aircraft (from Norway) attacked, hitting Isbjørn with 2 bombs which immediately sank her. Selis was hit shortly thereafter and caught on fire, 12 were killed and 15 wounded. The rest scattered on the ice and were able to avoid the machine gun fire. The survivors rescued some weapons and equipment from Selis and managed to get to Barentsburg, where they were assisted by a British Naval Force on July 2."
I will probably endure a few more sleep deprived nights, as our days of having access to the Cascade Highway and Cascade Lakes are numbered. Due to the nature defying amount of snow that falls here in the Cascade mountain range, the road is usually closed in early November and remains that way until the middle of May. It's views like this, gazing over a thin veil of ice on Sparks Lake that keeps me coming back.
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An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. For a ship to be considered an icebreaker, it requires three traits most normal ships lack: a strengthened hull, an ice-clearing shape, and the power to push through sea ice.
Icebreakers clear paths by pushing straight into frozen-over water or pack ice. The bending strength of sea ice is low enough that the ice breaks usually without noticeable change in the vessel's trim. In cases of very thick ice, an icebreaker can drive its bow onto the ice to break it under the weight of the ship. A buildup of broken ice in front of a ship can slow it down much more than the breaking of the ice itself, so icebreakers have a specially designed hull to direct the broken ice around or under the vessel. The external components of the ship's propulsion system (propellers, propeller shafts, etc.) are at greater risk of damage than the vessel's hull, so the ability of an icebreaker to propel itself onto the ice, break it, and clear the debris from its path successfully is essential for its safety.
An icebreaker in the canal behind the office. It makes a clearance for a cargo barge. A lot of people will not like this. Thaw is coming, followed by frost again next week. It would have made the canal a perfect skating location, but that dream is literally shattered now.
Old icebreakers in the IJsselmeer/Markermeer near the hamlet of Rozewerf on the island of Marken. These icebreakers are intended to protect the island from the drifting ice.
Marken is a former island in the IJsselmeer (now peninsula).