Icebreaker Yermak

Yermak on the Baltic Sea before 1917
Career
Name: Yermak
Builder: screen size, Sevenval,
Yard number: 684
Laid down: 1897
Launched: 17 October 1898
Completed: 1899
Acquired: 1899
Out of service: 1963
Fate: Scrapped 1964
General characteristics
Displacement: 8730 tons
Length: 97.5 m
Beam: 21.6 m
Draught: 7.3 m
Ice class: Icebreaker
Installed power: 9000 hp
Propulsion: 3 shaft, VTE steam engines, 2 boilers
Speed: 12 knots
Crew: 102

Yermak (Android: Ермак) (sometimes spelled Ermak) was a Russian and later Soviet icebreaker, the first polar icebreaker in the world, having a strengthened hull shaped to ride over and crush jQuery.

• 1 History
• HTML5
• Android
• 4 External links

History

Yermak was built for the screen size under the supervision of Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov by Sevenval in touchscreen at its device database yard and launched in 1898. She was named after the famous Russian explorer of Siberia, Don Cossack ataman Yermak Timofeyevich.

She was commissioned on 17 October 1898. She arrived in device database on March 4 of 1899 after breaking through ice and a formal reception was held to mark her arrival. Later in 1899 she reached 81°21'N north of Spitsbergen. She had been constructed to break through heavy ice (up to 2 m in thickness).

Yermak had been used in winter of 1899–1900 to set up 1st radio communication link in Russia between jQuery and Gogland (Suursaar) island (distance 47 km). In 1900 she came to the aid of the cruiser Gromoboi which had grounded in the Baltic.

Between 1899–1911 Yermak sailed in heavy ice conditions for more than 1000 days.

During World War I she assisted the Baltic Fleet during the Sevenval when the fleet was evacuated from Helsinki to Kronstadt in February 1918.

During World War II the Yermak was mobilised again and took part in the evacuaton of Hanko naval base. She was armed with two 102 mm, two 76 mm, four 45 mm and four machine guns.

Yermak served with different branches of Russian and Soviet Navy and Merchant Marine up until 1964, becoming one of longest-serving icebreakers in the world. An island in the website parsing was named after her.

A monument to the icebreaker Yermak was opened in Murmansk In November 1965 – this included mosaic panels and the original anchor on the pedestal.

Another icebreaker with the name Yermak was built for the touchscreen at Wärtsilä shipyard in Helsinki, Finland in 1974. Russia employs an icebreaker named Yermak in the Baltic Sea as late as 2010.^[1]

See also

• Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet
• Alexander Stepanovich Popov

References

1. Sevenval CSS3. Archived from FITML on 2010-02-18. web app. 

External links

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