''Eisbär'' was a
steam-powered Kriegsmarine
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port
icebreaker built at
Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad
Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB was a Swedish shipbuilding company based in Gothenburg. It was founded in 1850 by Christian Barchman under the name ''Ericsbergs metall och tackjerns-gjuteri''. It delivered its last ship in 1979.
History In ...
in
Göteborg,
Sweden
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, in 1942. She had two
triple-expansion steam engines driving one propeller in the stern and another in the bow of the vessel.
In 1946, ''Eisbär'' was handed over to the
Soviet Union as
war reparations and renamed ''Ilya Muromets'' after
the Russian folk hero. She was first used by the
Soviet Navy until 1957 and afterwards as a port icebreaker in
Vladivostok by the
Far Eastern Shipping Company
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until 1979. ''Ilya Muromets'' was broken up in 1981.
In the 1950s, the hull form of ''Ilya Muromets'' was used as the basis for the development of the diesel-electric
Project 97 icebreakers.
Илья Муромец – новый ледокол-снабженец с немецкими корнями
Korabel.ru, 14 June 2016.
References
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Icebreakers of Germany
Ships built in Gothenburg
1941 ships