Sampo (ship)
 The Sampo in the port of Kemi in June 2010
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The Sampo is a Finnish icebreaker . It was built in 1960 at the Wärtsilä shipyard in Hietalahti and was in service in the northern Baltic Sea until the beginning of the 1990s on behalf of the authorities.
After it was decommissioned and came into private hands, it was expanded with various facilities for passengers and has since offered space for up to 150 people. Still sailing under the Finnish flag, she usually undertakes short ice trips off the Lappish coast from the port of Kemi . The Sampo is one of the few icebreakers in the world to take passengers.
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The Sampo is one of four ice breakers of the Karhu class, her sister ships were the Karhu , Murtaja and Hanse .
The Sampo is powered by four Wärtsilä -Sulzer two - stroke diesel engines . Another five significantly smaller auxiliary diesels drive various units. Together, these nine engines produce a maximum output of 8800 hp. Although equipped with suitable low-speed motors for direct drive, the propellers are driven electrically. This has the advantage that significantly shorter switching times from forward to reverse travel can be achieved when ramming ice than with direct drive. The breaking capacity is between 70 and 120 cm at maximum solid ice thicknesses, whereby 50 cm thick solid ice can be broken at a speed of around 8 knots. The plate thickness of the outer skin is just under 3 cm in the ice area.
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The Sampo was stationed their active time since 1961 as an icebreaker in the port Ajos, 11 kilometers south of Kemi. It was in use from November to May. Their area of application extended from the northern Gulf of Bothnia and the port of Kemi to the south of Bornholm . On a rescue mission in 1963, she drove as far as the Kattegat . As early as the late 1970s, it became apparent that a new generation of cargo ships needed larger fairways than the Karhu-class ships could produce. Nevertheless, the Sampo remained in active use for ten years. In 1987 she was decommissioned because the cargo ships sailing at that time needed wider ice-free areas than the Sampo could manage.
From mid-December to mid-April, four-hour cruises are offered on the icy northern Gulf of Bothnia one to three times a day . The Sampo can carry up to 150 passengers. The ice is up to one meter thick, with the thickest ice usually occurring in February and March.
In addition to the obligatory brunch, lunch or dinner and the ship tour, the Sampo also offers an unusual stopover: During this trip there is the opportunity to swim in the Arctic Ocean in neoprene suits in a specially made stop in a freely broken area which Lonely Planet describes as a surreal experience. These trips are often combined with ski and snowmobiling - or dog and reindeer safaris.
This trip is often touted as the only way in the world to tour an icebreaker. But there are other icebreakers such as the Russian Kapitan Chlebnikow that offer something similar. The icebreaker trip is an important factor for tourism in Kemi as it brings tourists from all over the world to this city. A total of around 10,000 to 12,000 tourists come during the season, the majority of whom come from abroad.
Although officially no longer part of the Finnish icebreaker fleet, it happens every winter that the Sampo is used for auxiliary services and a fairway for cargo ships in the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia has to break open and keep clear. In addition, the ship is often used by polar researchers and oceanographers, who collect data and test models on the Sampo .
In summer you can visit the ship and dine in the on-board restaurant. The Sampo can also be chartered for special occasions all year round.
Namesakes
Even before today's Sampo , there was a Finnish icebreaker of the same name from 1898 to 1960. A German pilot cutter built in 1896 also bears the name Sampo and serves as a museum ship. A wood bundle steamer built by Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1925 was named Sampo .
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Footnotes
- ^ A b Ole Vistrup: Intelligent re-use of the icebreaker Sampo in: European Maritime Heritage Newsletter No. 26, March 2010, p. 6 as pdf p. 7
- ↑ Amit Dixit: Breaking the Ice in: Outlook Traveler, April 2008 Vol. 8 No. 4 pp. 104-107
- ↑ a b Roger Norum: The Rough Guide to Finland Rough Guides, 2010 ISBN 1848369670 p. 265
- ↑ a b c Ole Vistrup: Intelligent re-use of the icebreaker Sampo in: European Maritime Heritage Newsletter No. March 26, 2010 p. 6 as pdf
- ↑ World Book (Hg :): Christmas in Finland
- ^ Paul Harding, Mark Elliott: Scandinavian Europe Lonely Planet, 2007 ISBN 1741045533 p. 200
- ↑ see Christmas in Finland p. 53, Scandinavian Europe p. 200, Outlook Traveler p. 106
- ↑ Cory Kulczycki: Icebreaker in: Michael Lück (ed.): The encyclopedia of tourism and recreation in marine environments CABI, 2008 ISBN 1845933508 p. 224
- ↑ As one of many examples: Pentti Kujala: Modeling of Nonsimultaneous Ice Crushing as a Poisson Random Process International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering Vol. 6, No. June 2, 1996 ( ISSN 1053-5381 )