Topic: icebreaker

Related pictures

Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Rate these pictures

icebreaker

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
icebreaker ship of special hull design and wide beam, with relatively flat bottom, designed to force its way through ice. When the icebreaker charges into the ice at full speed, its sharply inclined bow, meeting the edge of the ice, rises upon it, and the weight of the vessel causes the ice to collapse. A well-designed icebreaker is able to force its way through ice up to 35-ft (10.7-m) thick. In many northern seaports, especially in Russia, Canada, and the Great Lakes area of the United States, water-borne traffic in winter is only possible with the use of icebreakers. Icebreakers have been... Read more
Polar Regions
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations ... transportation and employ icebreakers to clear channels of pack ... between nations, with the free exchange of scientific programs ... surface at the pole. The Soviet icebreaker Arktika was the first surface ... Russian vessels, including icebreakers, ply the 2,800-km (1,740-mi ... Read more
SIC 4432 Freight Transportation on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway
Encyclopedia of American Industries ... status of the Coast Guard's icebreaker, the U.S.S. Mackinaw. As ... occasionally needed the Mackinaw to free them from unusually heavy ... convinced Congress to save the icebreaker. A modernization program ... powerful of the nine Coast Guard icebreakers operating on the Great Lakes ... the possible ... Read more

Related research topics

Online videos

Pen Expers - Icebreaker

Free newspaper and magazine articles

Free Article The Russians are coming: if Canada won't provide a year-round icebreaker in the Arctic, Russia will.(TRADE)
Western Standard; 2/26/2007
Free Article NORWAY: NORWAY, RUSSIA SAFEGUARD NUCLEAR ICEBREAKER FLEET.(Brief Article)
IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 9/7/2000
Free Article Blewett is looking forward to Icebreaker.(SPORTS)
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 4/8/2007