New World’s Largest Icebreaker–also Nuc Powered

Just a note from the German Navy’s Marine Forum without attribution from their “Upcoming/Planned Events” section. Measurements reported in metric translate to 568.4 ft long, 111.5 ft or beam, 34.4 ft draft.

“RUSSIA (05 Nov)
Baltic Shipyard (St. Petersburg) on 05 Nov will formally start construction of “next.generation” nuclear powered Project 22220 ice breaker LK-60 … to become world’s largest ice breaker (173.3 x 34 x 10.5m; two-reactor power plants)”

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