MV Captain Kurbatskiy

Ocean Luck in the Port of Santos in São Paulo, Brazil on 24 January 2005.
History
Name
  • Nizhneyansk (Нижнеянск) (1983–1996)[4]
  • Magdalena Oldendorff (1996–2003)[2]
  • Ocean Luck (2003–2010)[3]
  • Captain Kurbatskiy (Капитан Курбацкий) (2010–2011)[3]
Owner
Port of registry
OrderedJuly 1980[5]
BuilderValmet Oy Vuosaari shipyard, Helsinki, Finland[1]
CostFIM 200 million[7]
Yard number310[1]
Launched29 June 1982
Christened11 December 1982[4]
Completed21 January 1983[4]
In service1983–2011
Identification
FateBroken up in November 2011[6]
General characteristics [5][1]
Class and typeSA-15 type ro-ro/general cargo ship
Tonnage
Displacement
  • 33,840 tons (summer)
  • 27,660 tons (arctic)
Length
  • 177.20 m (581 ft 4 in) (overall, maximum)
  • 173.55 m (569 ft 5 in) (overall, hull)
  • 164.10 m (538 ft 5 in) (waterline)
Beam24.55 m (80.54 ft)
Height51.50 m (168.96 ft) from keel
Draught
  • 11.34 m (37.20 ft) (summer)
  • 9 m (29.53 ft) (arctic)
Depth15.2 m (49.87 ft)
Ice classULA
Main engines: 2 × Wärtsilä-Sulzer 14ZV40/48 (2 × 7,700 kW)
Auxiliary engines: 5 × Wärtsilä-Vasa 624 TS (5 × 810 kW)
PropulsionKaMeWa CPP, ⌀ 5.6 m (18.37 ft)
Speed18.1 knots (33.5 km/h; 20.8 mph)
Accommodation: 42 crew
10 passengers

MV Captain Kurbatskiy (Капитан Курбацкий) was a Russian SA-15 type cargo ship originally known as Nizhneyansk (Нижнеянск) after a port of the same name. The ship was delivered from Valmet Vuosaari shipyard in 1983 as the second ship of a series of 19 icebreaking multipurpose arctic freighters built by Valmet and Wärtsilä, another Finnish shipbuilder, 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.

In 1996, after 13 years of service under Soviet and later Russian Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), the ship was sold to Bandwidth Shipping Corporation, who renamed it Magdalena Oldendorff and later chartered it as a support ship for the 20th Indian Antarctic Expedition. In 2003 the ship changed hands again and the new owner, Crystal Waters Shipping, renamed it Ocean Luck. Since 2010 the ship sailed as Captain Kurbatskiy under the ownership of Fern Shipping. Decommissioned and sold for scrapping in Alang, India, in 2011, Captain Kurbatskiy arrived at the breakers on 12 November 2011.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Captain Kurbatskiy (810259)". Register of ships. Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e OCEAN LUCK (LBR) Archived 30 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine. MAREUD — Maritime Research of Uddevalla. Retrieved 6 July 2011
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Captain Kurbatskiy (8013065)". Equasis. Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d NIZHNEYANSK from Valmet. Navigator 3/83. Page 17.
  5. ^ a b SA-15: a 14 ship series of icebreaking multipurpose cargo ships from Finland for Soviet Arctic Service. The Motor Ship, Volume 64, Issue 753, April 1983. Pages 28-32.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference kurba_scrap was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Uusi aluevaltaus Valmetille - Kolme arktisen liikenteen monikäyttöalusta NL:oon. Navigator 9/80. Page 42.