History | |
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Name | Monchegorsk (Мончегорск) |
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Port of registry |
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Ordered | July 1980[3] |
Builder | Oy Wärtsilä Ab, Turku, Finland |
Cost | FIM 200 million |
Yard number | 1261 |
Launched | 1 June 1983[1] |
In service | 1983–2009 |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping in 2009[4] |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | SA-15 type ro-ro/general cargo ship |
Classification: | Russian Maritime Register of Shipping |
Tonnage | |
Length | |
Beam | 24.55 m (80.54 ft) |
Height | 51.50 m (168.96 ft) from keel |
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Depth | 15.2 m (49.87 ft) |
Ice class | ULA |
Main engines: | 2 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer 14ZV40/48 (2 × 7,700 kW) |
Auxiliary engines: | 5 × Wärtsilä-Vasa 624 TS (5 × 810 kW) |
Propulsion | KaMeWa CPP, ⌀ 5.6 m (18.37 ft) |
Accommodation: | 42 crew 10 passengers |
MV Monchegorsk (Мончегорск) was an SA-15 type cargo ship built by Wärtsilä in Turku, Finland, in 1983. Named after a town of the same name, the freighter was the tenth ship of a series of 19 icebreaking multipurpose arctic freighters built by Wärtsilä and Valmet for the Soviet Union for year-round service in the Northern Sea Route. These ships, designed to be capable of independent operation in arctic ice conditions, were of extremely robust design and had strengthened hulls resembling those of polar icebreakers.
Initially delivered to the (then) state-owned Murmansk Shipping Company and later handed over to its subsidiary, NB Shipping, Monchegorsk sailed under the Soviet and later Russian flag until 1993, after which she was registered to Cyprus. She was sold for recycling in China in late 2009 after 26 years of service.[1][4]
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