Brute Force – The Story of Icebreakers

THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF ICE BREAKING VESSELS

Brute force is an impressively written, lavishly illustrated book about icebreaker ships. It introduces the reader to icebreakers from Finland and other countries and tells about the history of icebreaking equipment. The Baltic Sea is the most heavily traversed sea area in the world. A wintertime visit to an ice-enclosed Finnish, Swedish, Russian or Estonian harbour is an unforgettable experience. Maritime traffic is kept running smoothly by the world’s largest fleet of icebreakers. In the depths of winter, over 20 sea-going icebreaker ships are at work on the Baltic, logging over 8,000 operations annually.

Today, sixty percent of all the icebreaker ships in the world are built in Finland. This book covers the milestones of icebreaking technology. The development of technology used in icebreakers, from thousand-horsepower steam-driven icebreakers to modern icebreaking vessels that can go through two-metre-thick polar ice, has required great engineering ingenuity. This book is opens up the fascinating and largely unknown world of icebreaker ships working in tough conditions along with their crews.

 

Over 200 pages

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