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Icebreakers of the Soviet Union: Icebreaker Fyodor Litke, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Krasin, SS Chelyuskin, Lenin, Icebreaker Sibiryakov

Icebreakers of the Soviet Union: Icebreaker Fyodor Litke, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Krasin, SS Chelyuskin, Lenin, Icebreaker Sibiryakov


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Chapters: Icebreaker Fyodor Litke, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Krasin, Ss Chelyuskin, Lenin, Icebreaker Sibiryakov, Icebreaker Sedov, Icebreaker Sadko, Icebreaker Yermak, Kapitan Dranitsyn, Icebreaker Magadan, Icebreaker Malygin, Arktika, Taymyr, Ivan Susanin Class Icebreaker, Arktika Class Icebreaker. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The icebreaker Fyodor Litke (SKR-18, Russian: ) was a Soviet ship active in the Arctic until the late 1950s. It was built in 1909 in England for the Saint Lawrence River service and initially named C.G.C. Earl Grey after Albert Grey, Governor General of Canada. After four years in Canada it was sold to Russian government and eventually renamed Fyodor Litke in honour of Arctic explorer Fyodor Petrovich Litke. The Litke became famous for its Arctic operations in 19321935, survived the operations of World War II and was retired in 1958 after nearly 50 years of active service. Unlike conventional icebreakers that crush ice with their own weight from above, Litke belonged to an older generation, relying on ramming and cutting ice with its stern horizontally. For this reason, Litke was uniquely classified as an ice-cutter (Russian: ) or icebreaking steamship (Russian: ), rather than a true icebreaker. Albert Grey, the ninth Governor General of Canada, was interested in developing the Hudson Bay area. His project entailed construction of a coastal railroad, establishing new seaports (Port Nelson) and charting the waters of Hudson Bay. Grey paid his first visit to the Bay in 1910, returning home in a luxuriously appointed suite on board an icebreaker bearing his namesake, C.G.C. Earl Grey. Earl Grey, 1910-1914Earl Grey was built in 1909 in Barrow-in-Furness for the Saint Lawrence River winter service as an icebreaking freight an...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1346055


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155533346
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 122 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155533348
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Icebreaker Fyodor Litke, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Krasin, SS Chelyuskin, Lenin, Icebreaker Sibiryakov
  • Width: 229 mm


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