The MT Timofey Guzhenko (Russian: Тимофей Гуженко) is a Russian double acting shuttle tanker operated by Sovcomflot. An icebreaking oil tanker capable of operating independently in 1.5-metre (5 ft) level ice, she carries oil from Varandey Oil Terminal, an ice-strengthened loading tower located 12 nautical miles (22 km) from the shore.
History | |
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Russia | |
Name | Timofey Guzhenko (Тимофей Гуженко) |
Namesake | Timofey Guzhenko |
Owner | Lorama Shipping Co. Ltd.[1] |
Operator | Sovcomflot[2] |
Port of registry | Saint Petersburg, Russia[1] |
Builder | Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea[1] |
Yard number | 1662[1] |
Laid down | 30 June 2008 |
Launched | 30 August 2008 |
Completed | 24 February 2009[1] |
In service | 2009–present |
Identification | |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Shuttle tanker |
Tonnage | |
Displacement | 93,515 tons |
Length | 257 m (843 ft) |
Beam | 34 m (112 ft) |
Draught | 14.2 m (47 ft) |
Depth | 21 m (69 ft) |
Ice class | RMRS Arc6 |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 15.7 knots (29.1 km/h; 18.1 mph) |
The ship is named after Timofey Guzhenko (1918–2008), the USSR Minister of Merchant Marine in 1970–1986 and one of the founders of the Sovcomflot Group. He was also the leader of the first expedition to reach the North Pole on board a surface ship, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika, on 17 August 1977.[3]
Sister ships
- Vasily Dinkov (delivered 2007)
- Kapitan Gotskiy (delivered 2008)[4]
References
External links
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