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Otso (icebreaker)
''Otso'' is a Finnish state-owned icebreaker. Built by Wärtsilä Helsinki shipyard in 1986 to replace the aging ''Karhu''-class icebreakers, she was the first Finnish post-war icebreaker to be built without bow propellers. ''Otso'' has an identical sister ship, ''Kontio'', which was delivered in 1987. Development and construction In the early 1980s, the Finnish National Board of Navigation began looking for a replacement for the aging ''Karhu''-class icebreakers ''Karhu'', ''Murtaja'' and ''Sampo'' which had been built in the late 1950s and were no longer wide enough to escort modern merchant ships.Karhu II - A new-generation icebreaker. Shipping World & Shipbuilder, October 1985. Furthermore, the old icebreakers were expensive to operate and, despite their small size, required a relatively large crew of 53.Kaukiainen (1992), page 330. The development of the new class of icebreakers, dubbed ''Karhu II'' in the preliminary papers, intensified when Wärtsilä opened a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Language
Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. Finnish orth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
