Ordered 1980s Homeport Murmansk Length 88 m Range 3.55584 million m Builder Burrard Dry Dock | In service 1983-present Launched 1983 Weight 4,234 tons Endurance 1.9 months | |
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Name Vladimir Ignatyuk (2003–)Kalvik, Arctic Kalvik (1983–2003) Namesake Head of Murmansk Sea Steamship Lines Operator Murmansk Shipping CompanyBeaudril (Gulf Canada) | ||
Vladimir Ignatyuk (formerly MV Arctic Kalvik) is a diesel icebreaker that was built in 1983 at the Victoria Yard of the Burrard Yarrows Corporation located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada for Beaudril Limited, an oil-drilling subsidiary of Gulf Canada Resources Ltd., for use in anchor handling and ice breaking in the Beaufort Sea. Two other Class 4 icebreakers were built for Beaudril by Burrard Yarrows Co., Terry Fox and Miscaroo.
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History
Launched as Kalvik by the Beaudrill Gulf Limited in 1983, it was renamed to Arctic Kalvik by Fednav Ltd. in 1997. Kalvik was the sister ship to the Terry Fox also built by Burrard Yarrows Corporation of Vancouver, BC, which became a Canadian Coast Guard Heavy Gulf (and Arctic) icebreaker. In 2003, Arctic Kalvik was sold to the JSC Murmansk Shipping Company and was renamed Vladimir Ignatyuk.
Operation
In 2002, Arctic Kalvik and Kigoriak relocated the 146,780 grt arctic drilling platform SDC from Port Clearance to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
In August 2011 – 2013, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) chartered Vladimir Ignatyuk to cut the ice and provide escort in McMurdo Sound to vessels supplying the Antarctica's U.S. research stations and field camps.