68°18′05″N 172°49′40″W / 68.3014°N 172.8278°W
 Chelyuskin
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Chelyuskin |
| Owner |  Sovtorgflot |
| Operator | Glavsevmorput[1] |
| Builder | Burmeister and Wain (B&W) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Launched | 11 March 1933 |
| Christened | Semion Chelyuskin |
| Completed | 1933 |
| Maiden voyage | 6 May 1933 |
| Fate | Sank 13 February 1934 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steam ship |
| Tonnage | 7,500t |
| Length | 310.2’ |
| Beam | 54.3’ |
| Height | 22.0’ |
| Installed power | 2400hp |
| Speed | 12,5 knots |
| Crew | 111 |
SS Chelyuskin[2] (Russian: «Челю́скин», IPA: [tɕɪˈlʲuskʲɪn]) was a Soviet steamship, reinforced to navigate through polar ice, that in 1934 became ice-bound in Arctic waters during a navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok and sank. 111 people were on board the Chelyuskin, and all but one were rescued by air. The expedition's task was to determine the possibility to travel by non-icebreaker through the Northern Maritime Route in a single navigation season.
It was built in Denmark in 1933 by Burmeister and Wain (B&W, Copenhagen) and named after the 18th century Russian polar explorer Semion Ivanovich Chelyuskin. The head of the expedition was Otto Yuliyevich Shmidt and the ship's captain was V. I. Voronin. There were 111 people on board the steamship, including Soviet cinematographers Mark Troyanovsky and Arkadii Shafran who documented on film the entire voyage, including the rescue. The crew members were known as Chelyuskintsy, with the singular form "Chelyuskinets".
- ^ (in Russian)Chelyuskin and Pijma: All dots above i Archived 2009-06-08 at the Wayback Machine by Lazar Freidgame
- ^ Also Cheliuskin.