Yermak (1898 icebreaker)

Yermak on the Baltic Sea before 1917
History
Russian Empire/RSFSR/USSR
Name	Yermak
Builder	N. I. Yankovsky, R. I. Runeberg, Armstrong Whitworth and others
Yard number	684
Laid down	1897
Launched	17 October 1898
Completed	1899
Acquired	1899
Out of service	1963
Fate	Scrapped 1964
General characteristics
Displacement	8730 tons
Length	97.5 m
Beam	21.6 m
Draught	7.3 m
Ice class	Icebreaker
Installed power	9000 hp
Propulsion	4 shaft, 8 VTE steam engines, 6 boilers
Speed	12 knots
Crew	102

Yermak^[1] (Russian: Ермак, IPA: [jɪrˈmak]) was a Russian and later Soviet icebreaker. It was the first polar icebreaker in the world, having a strengthened hull shaped to ride over and crush pack ice.