Havyard names icebreaker in Bergen
In November 2013, Havyard signed a contract for the delivery of the design and building of the first of the three Havyard 843 ICE icebreaking offshore vessels for the Russian shipping company FEMCO. Saturday the first ship was named in Bergen.
Of the many guests who were invited to the naming ceremony, there were about fifty guests who had made the trip from Russia. Godmother was Nadezhda Lyshko, wife of Ivan Lyshko from the shipping company FEMCO.
Build 122 Aleut, a Havyard 843 ICE design, is a real slugger of a ship that will operate under some of the harshest conditions imaginable. Once it has been named, Aleut will sail to Murmansk in Russia to stock up on equipment and provisions before it heads for the Prirazlomnoye field, which is situated between the Russian mainland and Novaya Zemlya. Aleut has been hired by the Russian oil company Gazprom and it will service the Prirazlomnaya platform. The two icebreakers Havyard delivered in 2006 also service this field.
In addition to being an advanced anchor-handling vessel with platform supply functions, Aleut is designed and built to operate under extreme arctic conditions. Among other things, the ship has icebreaker class and engine power that allows it to break one-metre-thick ice at 3 knots, and a de-icing system so that it can withstand temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius. Another of the ship's extreme qualities is its ability to ram into and break ice ridges with 8-metre-thick ice under water. During the sea trial, the speed was measured at 16 knots and the bollard pull was just above 200 tonnes.
Main data Havyard 843 ICE
Length: 86 m
Breadth: 19.5 m
Draught 7.25 m
Speed: 16 knots
Bollard pull: 201 tonnes
Anchor-handling winch: 250 tonnes
Accommodates: 34 persons
