ALMIRANTE IRIZAR
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:10 am
Built as a research/supply icebreaker under yard No 420 by Öy Wärtsilä, Helsinki for the Estado Nacional Argentino. (Argentine Government/Navy).
04 July 1977 keel laid down.
03 February 1978 launched under the name ARA ALMIRANTE IRIZAR (Q5), she was named after Admiral Julián Irizar, who commanded the Argentinean corvette ARA URUGUAY who rescued the members of the Swedish Scientific Expedition of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld in 1903 after their ship the ANTARCTIC was crushed in the ice.
Tonnage 10.065 grt, 3.250 net, 4.600dwt., displacement 14.900 ton. Dim. 119.30 x 25.00 x 9.50m. (draught).
Powered by four Wärtsilä-SEMT Pielstick 8-cyl. PC2-5L diesels, each 5.200hp., who are directly connected to AEG generators, which give there power to two electro motors each 8.100hp., twin stainless steel screws, speed 16.5 knots.
Armament 2 – 40mm Bofors AA guns.
She can break ice with a constant speed with a thickness of 1 meter, maximum 6 meter with a ram-course.
Fitted out with a hangar for two helicopters.
Also fitted out with the AEG/Denny Brown stabilisers to decrease the rolling of the vessel to and from the Antarctic.
Accommodation for 120/130 crew and 100 passengers.
15 December 1978 commissioned. Homeport Buenos Aires.
She was built for the re-supply of the Argentine polar bases in the Antarctic, and supporting scientific endeavours in Antarctica. Even it is possible to over-winter with the ship in the Antarctic.
She has a spoon form bow.
23 March 1979 she arrived in Argentina.
When the Falkland War broke out in 1982 she was first used as troop transport, before she was
used as a hospital ship. Her crew then included medical personal from the Argentina Army and Navy.
At that time she was painted white.
After the war used to return Argentinean POW’s and wounded from the Falklands to Argentine.
She was later awarded the “Operaciones de Combatas” (Combat Operations) medal.
2002 When the German supply vessel MAGDALENA OLDENDORFF became trapped in the ice in the Antarctic, the ALMIRANTE IRIZAR could move her to a safe position, and re-supply the ship with stores, fuel and medicines until the ice melted and the MAGDALENA OLDENDORFF could return to open water one her own power.
For her part in this rescue she was awarded the International “Operation Medal”.
10 April 2007 at 22.00 she got a fire in her electricity generator compartment, when she was on her return voyage from the Antarctic in a position 140 miles east of Puerto Madryn.
On 23.30 the order was given by Captain Guillermo Tarapow to abandon the ship.
296 Crew and military personnel on board left the vessel in lifeboats, and were rescued by a Panamanian tanker SCARLET IBIS and some fishing vessels a few hours later.
Captain Tarapow and some officers stayed behind on the vessel and with the help of 30 naval experts who boarded the vessel the next day, at that time the fire was already extinguished, and the ALMIRANTE IRIZAR were made ready for the tow to Puerto Belgrano naval base.
20 April 2007 under tow she arrived late in the evening in Puerto Belgrano.
How long she will be out of service is unknown, but estimates are at least two years, that there must be heavy damage in the generator and engine room.
IMO No. 7533628.
Also on Argentine 1981 2000p sg 1702.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Almira ... Dzar_(Q-5) CD-ROM ships on stamps.
Navicula. Blauwe Wimpel.
04 July 1977 keel laid down.
03 February 1978 launched under the name ARA ALMIRANTE IRIZAR (Q5), she was named after Admiral Julián Irizar, who commanded the Argentinean corvette ARA URUGUAY who rescued the members of the Swedish Scientific Expedition of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld in 1903 after their ship the ANTARCTIC was crushed in the ice.
Tonnage 10.065 grt, 3.250 net, 4.600dwt., displacement 14.900 ton. Dim. 119.30 x 25.00 x 9.50m. (draught).
Powered by four Wärtsilä-SEMT Pielstick 8-cyl. PC2-5L diesels, each 5.200hp., who are directly connected to AEG generators, which give there power to two electro motors each 8.100hp., twin stainless steel screws, speed 16.5 knots.
Armament 2 – 40mm Bofors AA guns.
She can break ice with a constant speed with a thickness of 1 meter, maximum 6 meter with a ram-course.
Fitted out with a hangar for two helicopters.
Also fitted out with the AEG/Denny Brown stabilisers to decrease the rolling of the vessel to and from the Antarctic.
Accommodation for 120/130 crew and 100 passengers.
15 December 1978 commissioned. Homeport Buenos Aires.
She was built for the re-supply of the Argentine polar bases in the Antarctic, and supporting scientific endeavours in Antarctica. Even it is possible to over-winter with the ship in the Antarctic.
She has a spoon form bow.
23 March 1979 she arrived in Argentina.
When the Falkland War broke out in 1982 she was first used as troop transport, before she was
used as a hospital ship. Her crew then included medical personal from the Argentina Army and Navy.
At that time she was painted white.
After the war used to return Argentinean POW’s and wounded from the Falklands to Argentine.
She was later awarded the “Operaciones de Combatas” (Combat Operations) medal.
2002 When the German supply vessel MAGDALENA OLDENDORFF became trapped in the ice in the Antarctic, the ALMIRANTE IRIZAR could move her to a safe position, and re-supply the ship with stores, fuel and medicines until the ice melted and the MAGDALENA OLDENDORFF could return to open water one her own power.
For her part in this rescue she was awarded the International “Operation Medal”.
10 April 2007 at 22.00 she got a fire in her electricity generator compartment, when she was on her return voyage from the Antarctic in a position 140 miles east of Puerto Madryn.
On 23.30 the order was given by Captain Guillermo Tarapow to abandon the ship.
296 Crew and military personnel on board left the vessel in lifeboats, and were rescued by a Panamanian tanker SCARLET IBIS and some fishing vessels a few hours later.
Captain Tarapow and some officers stayed behind on the vessel and with the help of 30 naval experts who boarded the vessel the next day, at that time the fire was already extinguished, and the ALMIRANTE IRIZAR were made ready for the tow to Puerto Belgrano naval base.
20 April 2007 under tow she arrived late in the evening in Puerto Belgrano.
How long she will be out of service is unknown, but estimates are at least two years, that there must be heavy damage in the generator and engine room.
IMO No. 7533628.
Also on Argentine 1981 2000p sg 1702.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Almira ... Dzar_(Q-5) CD-ROM ships on stamps.
Navicula. Blauwe Wimpel.