Ship Details

Kalvik

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Registry #1 803564 (Canada) Registry #2 8127804 Registry #3
IMO# 8127804 MMSI# 273448450 VRN#
 
Name 1 1983 Kalvik Name 6
Name 2 1997 Arctic Kalvik Name 7
Name 3 2003 Vladimir Ignatyuk Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1983 Place Esquimalt Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 288.6' x 58.5' x 27.3'
Builder Burrard-Yarrows Corp., Esquimalt BC Measurement (metric) 88m x 17.8m x 8.3m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 4234 Type 1 Icebreaker, Class IV
Registered Tonnage 1956 Type 2 Freighter (Ice breaking)
Engine 4-23,200bhp diesel engines (1983) Engine Manufacture Stork-Werkspoor AG
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign UGTP
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1983-1985 she was owned by BeauDril Ltd. (subsidiary of Gulf Canada Resources Inc.) In 1990 she was owned by Gulf Canada Resources Ltd., Calgary AB Canada. In 2003-2016 she was owned by Murmansk Shipping Co., Murmansk Russia.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2003-05-30
 
Named Features
Significance of Name She was named for Vladimir Ignatyuk, Chief of Murmansk Sea Steamship Lines
 
Anecdotes
In 2002, Arctic Kalvik and Kigoriak relocated the 146,780 grt arctic drilling platform SDC from Port Clearance to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. In August 2011 – 2013, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) chartered Vladimir Ignatyuk to cut the ice and provide escort in McMurdo Sound to vessels supplying the Antarctica's U.S. research stations and field camps.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ignatyuk_(icebreaker); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ignatyuk_(icebreaker);
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