Taymyr (1909 icebreaker)
Emma Harbor , 1913
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History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Namesake | Taymyr Peninsula |
Owner | Russian Imperial Navy Soviet Navy |
Builder | Nevsky Shipyard in Saint Petersburg |
Launched | 1909 |
Out of service | 1950s |
Fate | Scrapped |
Badge | |
General characteristics | |
Type | Icebreaker |
Tonnage | 1,200 tons |
Displacement | 1,349 tons |
Length | 60 m (196 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 11.9 m (39 ft 1 in) |
Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
Taymyr was an
Taymyr and her sister ship Vaygach were built for the purpose of thoroughly exploring the uncharted areas of the Northern Sea Route. This venture became known as the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition.
Surveys
The first of a series of surveys began in the autumn of 1910, when Taymyr and Vaygach left Vladivostok. They entered the Chukchi Sea with scientists on board and began their exploration. For the next five years, these icebreakers went on sounding and carrying on vital surveys during the thaw. Before every winter, when ice conditions became too bad, they returned to Vladivostok and waited for the spring. In 1911 the scientists and crew aboard Vaygach and Taymyr made the first Russian landing on Wrangel Island.
In 1914,
Some of the biggest successes of the expedition were the accurate charting of the Northern Sea Route and the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya in 1913. Taymyr and Vaygach were considered the best icebreakers in the world at the time.[by whom?]
The first scientific
Nuclear vessels
A nuclear icebreaker as well as a class of nuclear-powered river icebreakers was named Taymyr in 1988.
See also
References
- Barr, William (1974). "Otto Sverdrup to the Rescue of the Russian Imperial Navy". Arctic. 27 (1).
- —— (December 1983). "The last Journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen". Arctic. 36 (4). Archived from the original on 14 August 2014.
- Niven, Jennifer (2001). The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 9780786884469.
External links
- Kuksin, I.Ye. (October 1991). "The Arctic Ocean hydrographic expedition 1910-1915". .
- Barr, William. "A Tsarist attempt at opening the northern sea route: The arctic ocean hydrographic expedition, 1910-1915"(PDF). Polarforschung. 45 (1). Bremerhaven: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research & German Society of Polar Research: 51–64.