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Magadan (icebreaker)

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Name
  
Magadan

Operator
  
Fesco Transport Group

Yard number
  
437

Weight
  
6,310 tons

Draft
  
6.5 m

Namesake
  
Magadan

Port of registry
  
Vladivostok,  Russia

Launched
  
1982

Displacement
  
5.634 million kg

Builder
  
Wärtsilä Helsinki New Shipyard

Magadan is a Russian icebreaker. She was completed in 1982 and is the smallest of Fesco Transport Group's fleet of five icebreakers.

Service history

  • 2011: Magadan was one of two vessels towing the oil rig Kolskaya when it capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk.
  • 2006: chartered by a joint expedition to survey Walrus abundance.
  • 2003: participated in a training exercise with vessels of other nations.
  • 2000: Magadan towed a Russian warship to be broken up in India.
  • 1999: Magadan led a rescue effort (March 6) to escort vessels carrying supplies to isolated Kamchatka settlements that were dangerousely short of fuel.

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    Magadan (icebreaker) Wikipedia
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