Name Eisvogel In service 1955 Tonnage 80 tons | Owner Port of Vienna Type Icebreaker Length 32 m | |
Status in active service, as of 2012 | ||
Icebreaker Eisvogel (English: Kingfisher) is an icebreaker employed by the Port of Vienna, Austria. Eisvogel clears ice in all three of Vienna's harbors. She is employed when the ice becomes a few centimetres in thickness. In 1985 she cleared ice that was 60 centimetres (24 in) thick.
In ice-free months the vessel is employed for official tours.
The German Navy built a 560-ton icebreaker, also named Eisvogel, which was sold off and is operated as a tugboat out of the port of Trieste.
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