MIKHAIL ULYANOV tanker

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The double hulled tanker showed on this stamp is the MIKHAIL ULYANOV built under yard No 02750 by the Admiralty Shipyard in St Petersburg, Russia for Arctic-01 Shipping Ltd, Valletta, Malta. She was designed after plans made by Aker Arctic Technology Inc., Finland.
08 June 2007 laid down.
31 October 2008 launched by Mrs Yuliya Borisova a famous Russian actress, the ship was named MIKHAIL ULYANOV, named after a Russian theatre and cinema actor. One sister the KIRILL LAVROV. By launching her registry port was St Petersburg as seen on her launching photo’s
Tonnage 49,866 grt, 21,303 nrt, 69,830 dwt, dim. 258.75 x 34 x 21m., length bpp. 235,74m, draught 13.6m.
Cargo capacity 86,700 cubic metre.
Powered; diesel electric by 4 Wartsilä 6L 46C diesel engines, each 6,300 kW, two Azipod thrusters, speed 16 knots.
Ice strengthened
26 February 2010 delivered with homeport Limassol, Turkish Cyprus.

She is a double action vessel, when sailing in ice free waters she moves bow forward but when sailing in ice she is moving forward by her stern, and her stern can break through 1.2m. thick ice.
She is special built as a shuttle tanker for the Prirazlomnoye platform to transport her crude oil to Murmansk.
When MIKHAIL ULYANOV entered the port of Rotterdam in May 2014 with the first Russian Arctic oil for the port of Rotterdam, the police arrested 44 Greenpeace activists who were waiting for the arrival of the tanker, the tanker moored without problems in Rotterdam where her oil was discharged.
2015 In service, same name and owner, managed by Unicom Management Services (Saint Petersburg) Co.ltd. Imo No. 9333670. Homeport now given as Bolshoy port of St Petersburg, with Russian registry.

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Source: http://www.equasis Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. http://www.miramarshipindex.org http://www.ship-technology.com/projects ... l_ulyanov/