The icebreakers of Germany include one large icebreaker, used for International polar research and dozens of smaller icebreakers that clear navigation channels of ice in Germany's territorial waters. [1]
name | IMO / ENI number | launched | notes |
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Polarstern | IMO 8013132 | 1982 | a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. |
Mellum | IMO 8301981 | 1983 | Multi-purpose vessel with icebreaking capabilities [2] |
Neuwerk | IMO 9143984 | 1997 | Multi-purpose vessel with icebreaking capabilities [3] |
Arkona | 2004 | Multi-purpose vessel with icebreaking capabilities [4] | |
Görmitz | IMO 9339363 | 2004 | in 2010 she assisted in the northern Peenestrom, in the fairway to Hiddensee and Ost- and Landtief |
Schwedt | ENI 05041960 | 2010 | Breaks ice on the River Oder |
Stettin | 1933 | Steamship, now a museum ship | |
Eisbrecher I | 1871 | One of the first European icebreakers | |
Eisbrecher II | 1877 | ||
Eisbrecher III | 1892 | ||
Eisvogel | 1960 | a 500-ton naval icebreaker, since 2010 Italian tugboat | |
Eisbär | 1961 | a 500-ton naval icebreaker, scrapped in late 1990s | |
Kienitz | ENI 05027290 | 1958 | Breaks ice on the River Oder [5] |
Hanse | 1965 | Built in Finland, paid off in 1998 and lost after major fire | |
Stephan Jantzen | 1967 | Dobrynya Nikitich-class icebreaker built in Russia for East Germany, replaced by the Arkona in 2004 [6] | |
Max Waldeck | 1967 | subjected to an experimental conversion in 1983 [7] | |
Hindenburg | 1915 | sunk by a mine 1918. [8] | |
Kietz | ENI 05041970 | 2010 | Breaks ice on the River Oder |
Keiler | 2011 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt | |
Frankfurt | ENI 05039960 | 2002 | constructed by Hitzler Werft for icebreaking duties on the Elbe River, Oder River, and canals in the former East Germany, operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt [9] |
Steinbock | 1935 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt | |
Widder | 1949 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt | |
Stier | 1951 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt | |
Freiburg | ENI 05042180 | 2012 | Operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt on the Rhine River; working vessel. [10] |
Eisvogel | 1942 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine and later Soviet Navy. Decommissioned in 1972. | |
Eisbär | 1942 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine and later Soviet Navy. Decommissioned in 1979. | |
Castor | 1941 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine. Sunk in 1945 but later raised by the Soviet Union. | |
Pollux | 1943 | Operated by the Kriegsmarine. Sunk in 1945. |
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