Swedish Navy
Icebreakers

The Swedish icebreakers is owned by Administration of Shipping and Navigation but operated by the Navy.

YMER (I) THULE
Build at Kockums M.V. AB, Malmo, Sweden.
Keel Laid: 1931.
Launched: 20/2 1932.
Commissioned:
Stricken: March 1976.
Broken up at Ystad 1977

 

 Build at The Naval Dockyard, Karlskrona, Sweden.
Launched: 12/10 1951.
Commissioned: 1/12 1953.
Stricken: 1988.
Displacement: 2.200 standard; 2.280 full load tons
Dimensions: 57,00 x 16,10 x 5,90 metres.
Main engines: Diesel-electric; 3 shafts; (1 fwd, 2 aft); 4.800 bhp = 14 knots.
Complements: 43
ODEN (I) ODEN (I)
Build 1958 at Sandvikens Skeppsdocka, Helsinki, Finland.
Launched 16/10 1956.
Commissioned: 1958.
Stricken: 1988
Complement: 75		 Displacements: 4.950 standard; 5.220 full load tons.
Dimensions: 78,00 x 19,40 x 6,90 metres
Main engines: Diesel-electric; 4 shafts; (2 fwd, 2 aft); 10.500 shp = 16 knots
TOR TOR
Build 1964 at Crichton-Vulcan, Turku (hull),
completed at Sandvikens Skeppsdocka, Helsinki, Finland.
Launched: 25/5 1963.
Commissioned: 31/1 1964.		 Displacement: 4.980 standard; 5.290 full load tons.
Dimensions: 84,50 x 20,50 x 6,20 metres.
Main Engines: Wartsila-Sulzer diesel-electric; 4 shafts; (2 fwd, 2 aft);12.000 hp = 18 knots
ATLE (Finnish Urho - class) ATLE (Finnish Urho - class)
Build 1974 at Wartsila, Helsinki, Finland
Laid down: 10/5 1973.
Launched: 27/11 1973.
Commissioned 21/10 1974.
Complement: 54 (16 officers, 38 men)		 Displacement: 7.900 tons.
Dimensions: 104,60 x 23,80 x 7,30 metres.
Main Engines: 5 Wartsila-Pielstick diesels of 25.000 bhp; 4 Stromberg electric motors; 4 shafts (2 fwd, 2aft); 22.000 bhp = 18 knots
 
NJORD
Build at Wartsila, Helsinki, Finland.
Launched 20/10 1968.
Commissioned Dec. 1968.
Displacement: 5.150 standard, 5.686 full load tons.
Dimensions: 86,50 x 20,50 x 6,20 metres.
Main engines: Wartsila diesel-electric; 4 shafts (2 fwd, 2 aft); 12.000 hp = 18 knots.
Modernized 1988, refit and upgraded in 2000.
11/7 2000: Sold to Polar Star Expeditions, Halifax, (a subsidiary of Karlsen Shipping), converted into an expedition cruise ship and renamed POLAR STAR. Registered in Barbados. 105 passengers and expedition staff in 45 cabins.
2003/2004: hit an uncharted rock in King Haakon Bay on an Antarctic cruise. Repaired in Falmouth summer 2004.
27/6 2005: Ran aground near Hinlopen on the east coast of Svalbard around 12:00 with 52 passengers and 41 crew. Moved clear under her own power 2005-06-28 08:55. No damage and no injuries reported.