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General cargo
Operated by Far Eastern Shipping Company
Photo: Rogério Cordeiro · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#27,538
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest general cargo
#253
of 5,539 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Captain Kurbatskiy (Капитан Курбацкий) was a Russian SA-15 type cargo ship originally known as Nizhneyansk (Нижнеянск) after a port of the same name. The ship was delivered from Valmet Vuosaari shipyard in 1983 as the second ship of a series of 19 icebreaking multipurpose arctic freighters built by Valmet and Wärtsilä, another Finnish shipbuilder, for the Soviet Union for year-round service in the Northern Sea Route. These ships, designed to be capable of independent operation in arctic ice conditions, were of extremely robust design and had strengthened hulls resembling those of polar icebreakers.
In 1996, after 13 years of service under Soviet and later Russian Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), the ship was sold to Bandwidth Shipping Corporation, who renamed it Magdalena Oldendorff and later chartered it as a support ship for the 20th Indian Antarctic Expedition. In 2003 the ship changed hands again and the new owner, Crystal Waters Shipping, renamed it Ocean Luck. Since 2010 the ship sailed as Captain Kurbatskiy under the ownership of Fern Shipping. Decommissioned and sold for scrapping in Alang, India, in 2011, Captain Kurbatskiy arrived at the breakers on 12 November 2011.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 18,627 gross tons, MV Captain Kurbatskiy is the 27,538th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 3.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 253rd by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.
Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which MV Captain Kurbatskiy is the 55th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 482 general cargos flying the Russia flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
MV Captain Kurbatskiy was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 294th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 37 vessels to Valmet, with a median tonnage of 18,574 GT, delivered between 1952 and 1986. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 177.0 m overall, MV Captain Kurbatskiy is 76.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 24.6 m and a draft of 11.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8013065 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1980 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.
Its IMO number, 8013065, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 85 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among general cargos
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Mahinabank | 1983 | 18,663 |
| Xin Hong | 1982 | 18,656 |
| Algoma Compass | 1973 | 18,639 |
| MV Captain Kurbatskiy (this ship) | 1983 | 18,627 |
| Voge Freeway | 1998 | 18,597 |
| Anatoliy Kolesnichenko | 1985 | 18,574 |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norilsk | 8013003 | Cyprus | 1982 | 16,500 |
| Mahinabank | 8013077 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1983 | 18,663 |
| Gazellebank | 8013015 | — | 1983 | 18,663 |
| Arkhangelsk | 8013041 | Cyprus | 1983 | 18,627 |
| Amderma | 8119144 | — | 1983 | 18,627 |
| MV Monchegorsk | 8013039 | Cyprus | 1983 | 18,627 |
| Igarka | 8013027 | Russia | 1983 | 18,627 |
| Kola | 8013053 | Russia | 1983 | 18,627 |
| Professor Barabanov | 8120662 | — | 1983 | — |
| Tikeibank | 8013089 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1983 | 18,663 |
| Kandalaksha | 8119156 | Russia | 1984 | 18,627 |
| Boularibank | 8119168 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1984 | 18,663 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Captain Kurbatskiy on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Rogério Cordeiro, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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