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Research / survey
Operator on record: Finnish Maritime Administration (1953–2004)
Photo: Jukka Koskimies · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#47,094
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest research / survey
#141
of 483 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Voima is a Finnish state-owned icebreaker. Built by Wärtsilä Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki in 1954, she was the first icebreaker in the world to be equipped with two bow propellers and generated widespread publicity that helped the Finnish shipbuilding industry to become the world leader in icebreaker design.
Voima was extensively refitted in 1978–1979. As of 2024, she is the oldest and smallest state-owned icebreaker in service in Finland. Originally, Voima was scheduled to be replaced by a new icebreaker by the winter of 2015–16. However, in 2016 it was decided to extend her operational lifetime by at least ten years with another refit.
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 4,159 gross tons, Voima is the 47,094th 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 1.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 141st by tonnage — larger than 71% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.
Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Voima is the 91st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 research / surveys flying the Finland flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.
Voima was built in 1954, making it 72 years old. It is one of 182 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,174 GT; within it this ship is the 24th largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 118 vessels to Wärtsilä, with a median tonnage of 14,058 GT, delivered between 1938 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 83.5 m overall, Voima is 12.5 m longer than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 19.4 m and a draft of 7.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5383158 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1930 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1954.
Its IMO number, 5383158, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 8×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 5×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among research / surveys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| USNS Henson | 1998 | 4,201 |
| USNS Mary Sears | 2001 | 4,201 |
| Vital de Oliveira | 2015 | 4,178 |
| Voima (this ship) | 1954 | 4,159 |
| Sindhu Sadhana | 2013 | 4,154 |
| Varma | 1968 | 4,121 |
| Apu |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Voima (1952 icebreaker) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Jukka Koskimies, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1970 |
| 4,121 |