AKADEMIK FEDOROV

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Russia issued three stamps in January 2006 with one two stamps ships, the OB and AKADEMIK FEDOROV for the 50th Anniversary of the Russian Research of Antarctic.

Built under yard No 300 as icebreaking cargo/research vessel by Rauma Repola O/Y, Rauma, Finland for Morflot, Russia.
29 August 1986 keel laid down.
03 February 1987 launched under the name AKADEMIK FEDOROV.
Tonnage 12.660 gross, 3.798 net, 7.200 dwt. Dim. 141.2 x 23.5 x 8.5m. (draught)
Powered; Diesel electric by four diesel engines, 18.132 shp, one propellers, speed 16 knots.
Bunker capacity 2.050 ton IFO 180, 400 ton for the auxiliary engines, 50-ton helifuel.
Daily consumption main engine 32 ton.
Accommodation for 80 crew and 160 expedition members.
Cargo capacity in 5 holds total capacity 8.595 cubic meters.
Can break ice with a thickness of 1.8m.
Aft helicopter deck and hangar for 1 Ka-32S helicopter.
08 September 1987 completed.

She is a large icebreaking cargo ship, for the supply and to support installations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
http://www.equasis.org gives for 2006, owned and managed by Arctic and Antarctic Research, St Petersburg, Russia. IMO No. 8519837, call sign UCKZ.

Source: Marine News 1987/306. http://www.scs-shipping.com/EnglishHome ... dorov.html

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Russia issued in December 2007 a set of stamps to honour the planting of the Russian flag on the ocean floor of the North Pole in August 2007 and a capsule with inside a message to future generations.

The vessel depict on the tap is the Russian research vessel AKADEMIK FYODOROV

After completing used in the yearly re-supplying of the Soviet Union Antarctic basis.
She came recently in the news as expedition ship to carry the Russian polar explorers to the North Pole in the Russian efforts to lay claim to the sea bed beneath the North Pole.
10 July 2007 she left from St Petersburg and around the North Cape she sailed to Murmansk.
24 July sailed again from Murmansk for the North Pole, but one day later she got engine problems, which could be fixed by her own crew after spare parts were flown over by helicopter to the ship from Murmansk.

She was later joined by the atomic icebreaker ROSSIYA and in her trail she sailed to the North Pole.
02 August she arrived at the North Pole were her mini-subs are launched for a dive to a depth of more as 4.000 meter.
The mini-subs were launched through a 10 by 25 meter hole in the ice.
The MIR-1 was first launched under command of Anatoly Sagalevich and two men crew, after she had reached a depth of 300 meter the MIR-2 was launched under command of Yevgeny Chernyayev.

After diving near to the sea-floor a one meter high titanium Russian flag and a capsule has been dropped.
North Korea 1991 40ch sgN3057, scott?

2016 http://www.equasis.org gives owned and managed by Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia. IMO No. 8519837.

Guinea-Bissau 2019 3300FCFA sgMS?, scott? (In margin of MS ) It looks she underwent a refit, comparing the two photos.