"Vasily Golovnin": from pole to pole. The motor ship "Vasily Golovnin" was loaded in Shanghai with equipment for Argentine scientific stations Motor ship Vasily Golovnin characteristics
The diesel-electric vessel Vasily Golovnin, managed by the FESCO Transport Group, is the fourth in a series of five Project 10620 ships built between 1986 and 1989 at the Kherson Shipyard, Kherson, Ukraine. This series includes the following ships: "Vitus Bering" (built in October 1986), "Alexei Chirikov" (built in September 1987), "Vladimir Arsenyev" (built in December 1987), "Stepan Krashennikov" (built in September 1989).
This series was built to carry out supply operations in the Arctic and subarctic regions. The vessels of the series are designed for navigation in ice behind icebreaker types and for independent navigation in continuous, flat ice 0.8 meters thick at a speed of 1.5 knots, a propeller speed of 160 rpm and a propeller power of 9.3 MW. The possibility of pushing and towing the vessel by icebreakers is provided.
Type of vessel: single-screw, double-deck, icebreaking transport diesel-electric vessel with a tank and quarterdeck, with a bow superstructure and engine and boiler room, four-hold, adapted for vertical and horizontal cargo handling using cargo cranes, ramps, ship helicopters, hovercraft platforms , as well as ship-based floating facilities. The vessel's hull is welded, made using a mixed casting system. The vessel is equipped with bottom and below-deck corridors.
Purpose: transportation of general, large-sized (up to 7×18 meters) and heavy (up to 48 tons) cargo; rolling equipment (weighing up to 43.5 tons); liquid cargo (two types of diesel fuel, including those with a vapor flash point below 43°C); refrigerated cargo; fuels, lubricants and flammable materials in containers; coal, ore; explosive goods; international standard containers.
Diesel-electric ship "VASILIY GOLOVNIN" IMO: 8723426, flag Russia, home port of Vladivostok, was built on December 24, 1988, construction number 5004. Shipbuilder: Kherson Shipyard, Kherson city, Ukraine. Owner and operator: FESCO, Moscow, Russia.
Main characteristics: Displacement 13514 tons, deadweight 10700 tons. Length 163.9 meters, width 22.46 meters, side height 12.0 meters, draft 9.0 meters. Speed 15.9 knots.
Until September 23, 1992, he worked as part of the fleet of the State Enterprise Far Eastern Shipping Company MMF of the USSR. After that, it became part of OJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO).
D/e "Vasily Golovnin" has been operating in Antarctica from 2003 to the present. from 2008 to 2012, FESCO annually won tenders for the supply of Argentinean Antarctic stations, which was carried out by a diesel-electric ship. In 2014, cooperation was resumed.
From January 12 to 17, 2014, she was in the port of Buenos Aires, after which the ship headed to Antarctica. This year the ship will deliver 5,600 tons of cargo: 4,803 tons are general cargo, products and equipment; 797 tons - fuel. Also on board are two KA-32 helicopters, with the help of which unloading is carried out on an unequipped shore, and 240 tons of kerosene for refueling helicopters. March 20, 2014 diesel-electric ship with general cargo, products, diesel fuel from Argentine research stations in Antarctica.
November 25, 2014 Vladivostok and headed to the port of Buenos Aires as part of participation in a project to supply Argentine research stations in Antarctica in 2015. According to a report dated March 10, 2015, a diesel-electric ship under the command of Captain Iksan Yusupov as part of a project of the Argentine Ministry of Defense to provide cargo to Argentine research stations in Antarctica.
From April to October 2015 with expeditionary cargo along the Northern Sea Route in the western sector of the Arctic. According to a message dated October 30, the FESCO Transport Group of the Argentine Ministry of Defense to participate in a project to supply research stations in Antarctica in 2016.
February 4, 2016 to work on a project to supply Argentine research stations as part of a tender from the Argentine Ministry of Defense. March 11, as part of a project by the Argentine Ministry of Defense to provide cargo to research stations in Antarctica. According to a message dated June 7, 2016 to the western sector of the Arctic. At the moment she is heading to the port of Arkhangelsk, where she plans to arrive on June 9.
During the summer-autumn navigation of 2018, it will carry national economic cargo to the regions of the Far North as part of annual events to ensure northern delivery. According to a message dated October 19, the FESCO Transport Group with the National Center for Antarctic and Ocean Research of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of India to provide Indian Antarctic research stations in 2019.
On January 26, 2019, the port of Cape Town (South Africa) began implementing a project to supply Indian research stations in Antarctica, which will last until April 2019.
Board number and name: M-0002 "Admiral Shabalin"
Who is it named after: The ship was built in 1988 in the GDR and is one of 37 trawlers built between 1986 and 1993 in the GDR (Project Atlantic 488), named after the Soviet rear admiral, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Shabalin Alexander Osipovich.
IMO No.: 8607165
Average crew size: 90
Vessel type: fishing type "Moonzund"
Year of construction: 1988
Country of construction: GDR
Overall length (m): 120,47
Overall width (m): 19,00
Net capacity: 7765 BRT
Fishing area:
Main fishing object:
Product type: uncut
Board number and name: M-0007 "Pavel Kutakhov"
Who is it named after: The ship was built in 1989 in the GDR and is one of 37 trawlers built between 1986 and 1993 in the GDR (Project Atlantic 488), named after the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Pavel Kutakhov Stepanovich.
IMO No.: 8607282
Average crew size: 90
Vessel type: fishing type "Moonzund"
Year of construction: 1989
Country of construction: GDR
Overall length (m): 120,47
Overall width (m): 19,00
Net capacity: 7765 BRT
Fishing area: East Central Atlantic
Main fishing object: mackerel, sardine, sardinella
Product type: uncut
Board number and name: M-0275 "Alexander Kosarev"
Who is it named after: The ship was built in 1988 in the GDR and is one of 37 trawlers built between 1986 and 1993 in the GDR (Project Atlantic 488), named after the Soviet Komsomol, party and statesman of 1920-1930 's, repressed in 1938, Kosarev Alexander Vasilievich.
IMO No.: 8607153
Average crew size: 90
Vessel type: fishing type "Moonzund"
Year of construction: 1988
Country of construction: GDR
Overall length (m): 120,47
Overall width (m): 19,0
Net capacity: 7765 BRT
Fishing area: East Central Atlantic
Main fishing object: mackerel, sardine, sardinella
Product type: uncut
Board number and name: MK-0556 “Captain Demidenko”
IMO No.: 8907137
Average crew size: 95
Vessel type:
Year of construction: 1994
Country of construction: Spain
Overall length (m): 105,0
Overall width (m): 20,0
Net capacity: 7682 BRT
Fishing area: North Atlantic
Main fishing object: herring, blue whiting, mackerel
Product type: uncut, cons. b/g
Board number and name: M-0202 "Boris Zaitsev"
Who is it named after: The vessel was built in 1997 in Germany and is one of 6 trawlers built between 1996 and 1997 in Germany, named after the legendary captain of the Murmansk Trawling Fleet Boris Grigorievich Zaitsev.
IMO No.: 9137478
Vessel type:
Year of construction: 1997
Country of construction: Germany
Overall length (m): 40,80
Overall width (m): 11,0
Net capacity: 837 BRT
Fishing area: Northeast Atlantic
Main fishing object: cod, haddock
Product type:
Board number and name: M-0204 “Yakov Gunin”
Who is it named after: The vessel was built in 1997 in Germany and is one of 6 trawlers built between 1996 and 1997 in Germany, named after the legendary captain of the Murmansk Trawling Fleet Yakov Alekseevich Gunin.
IMO No.: 9137492
Vessel type: fishing type "Ivan Shankov"
Year of construction: 1997
Country of construction: Germany
Overall length (m): 40,80
Overall width (m): 11,0
Net capacity: 837 BRT
Fishing area: Northeast Atlantic
Main fishing object: cod, haddock
Product type: chilled consumable b/g and s/g, cod liver in jars
Board number and name: MK-0356 “Fisherman”
IMO No.: 8901494
Vessel type: fishing type "Stercoder"
Year of construction: 1991
Country of construction: Norway
Overall length (m): 64,05
Overall width (m): 13,0
Net capacity: 1927 BRT
Fishing area: Northeast Atlantic
Main fishing object: cod, haddock, sea bass, halibut
Product type: consumption b/g
Board number and name: MK-0361 “Vasily Golovnin”
Who is named after: The vessel was built in 1992 in Norway and is one of 20 Sterkoder-class trawlers built between 1989 and 1992 in Norway (projects R-9104 and R-8830), named after the famous Russian navigator and traveler, vice admiral, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin.
IMO No.: 8913277
Vessel type: fishing type "Stercoder"
Year of construction: 1992
Country of construction: Norway
Overall length (m): 64,05
Overall width (m): 13,0
Net capacity: 1928 BRT
Fishing area: Northeast Atlantic
Main fishing object: cod, haddock
Product type: consumption raw, fillet
Board number and name: MK-0378 "Captain Nazin"
Who is named after: The vessel was built in 1993 in Spain and is one of 15 trawlers built between 1991 and 1994 in Spain (Project D 1305), named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Nazin Ivan Ilyich.
IMO No.: 8907046
Vessel type: fishing type "Cooperation"
Year of construction: 1993
Country of construction: Spain
Overall length (m): 105,0
Overall width (m): 20,64
Net capacity: 7665 BRT
Fishing area: North Atlantic
Main fishing object: herring, blue whiting, mackerel
Product type: uncut, cons. b/g
Board number and name: M-0278 “Buhta Nayezdnik”
IMO No.: 8913253
Average crew size: 46
Vessel type: Medium freezing fishing trawler (SRTM) of the “Sterkoder” type
Year of construction: 1991
Country of construction: Norway
Class: KM* L4 fishing vessel
Displacement (t): 2878
Overall length (m): 64,05
Overall width (m): 13,00
Net capacity: 1899 BRT
Fishing area: Northeast Atlantic
Main fishing object: cod, haddock
Product type: consumption raw, fillet
Vitaly OLEGOVICH
Having become part of the Far Eastern Shipping Company back in 1988, the diesel-electric ship of the reinforced ice class “Vasily Golovnin” was aimed at delivering cargo to hard-to-reach areas of the Arctic. Since then, almost every summer, the ship participates in the campaign of northern delivery to ports and to the unequipped coast of Chukotka. When winter sets in in the Northern Hemisphere, the diesel-electric ship moves to the Southern Hemisphere, providing Antarctic stations in different countries with resources via foreign freight.
Last year, the Vasily Golovnin made four voyages to Pevek from the port of Everett (Washington State, USA), delivering cargo for the Chukotka Mining and Geological Company necessary for the development of the Kupol gold-silver deposit.
This year, before leaving for Everett from Vladivostok, the ship delivered over 5 thousand tons of cargo to the ports of Provideniya, Egvekinot and Anadyr. At the main sea gate of the district on June 25, “Vasily Golovnin” was the second navigation vessel of 2010. Here we went on board to talk with captain Vladimir FEDORENKO.
ICE IS AN ANNOYING INTERFERENCE, BUT NOT FATAL
As Vladimir Ivanovich explained, calling at the ports of Eastern Chukotka this year became possible due to the fact that the last expedition to service Argentine stations on the Antarctic Peninsula and archipelago, separated from South America by the almost always stormy sea of the Drake Passage, was completed earlier than usual. The navigation situation became seriously complicated and we had to turn around. "Vasily Golovnin" had time for maintenance and partial crew changes. Before the official opening of navigation in Pevek on July 25, it was decided to pick up and transport associated cargo from Vladivostok.
It took two days to load in Vladivostok - from June 10 to 11. They took on board more than 5 thousand tons. Mainly containers, including refrigerated ones, some general cargo (construction materials), 17 cars.
“The entire journey to the shores of Chukotka passed in comfortable weather conditions, and after nine days we arrived in Provideniya - an excellent indicator,” said the captain. The port water area was clear of ice.
However, for “Vasily Golovnin” ice is an annoying obstacle, but not fatal. It was built in 1988 at a shipyard in Kherson (Ukraine) as part of a series of special ships designed to deliver cargo to Arctic latitudes. (Five ships of this class were built for the Far Eastern Shipping Company, but during the perestroika crisis, four were sold.)
With two engines, the Vasily Golovnin can maneuver through ice up to 1.2 meters thick without icebreaker support. The body is made of high-strength grade 100 steel.
And the carrying capacity of the diesel-electric ship significantly exceeds that which was involved in the first navigation voyage in 2010 - 9.3 thousand tons. There are four conventional cargo holds. In addition, there are two refrigerated holds, where you can load 400 tons of frozen products. There is a special hold for transporting explosives and a deck for vehicles.
An important advantage of the Vasily Golovnin is the presence of a stern ramp, which allows unloading to an unequipped shore without the use of portal cranes. The ship can carry two helicopters on board. The presence of rotorcraft makes it possible to unload without mooring to the pier.
In three days, having freed itself from the last cargo in Anadyr, the ship headed for Everett, where it reached in eight days.
Work on the line from Everett to Pevek will continue until approximately October 12, and in November the Vasily Golovnin leaves for the shores of Antarctica - again under freight from the Argentine government.
HE OPENED AN ARGENTINE SCHOOL
I am working out my second contract as a captain on a ship, but I made my first voyage on board the Vasily Golovnin as an assistant captain back in 2003,” said Vasily Fedorenko. - Made three flights to Antarctica as a backup captain. For challenging Antarctic voyages, it is common practice to have two captains on board. We worked there for up to three months a year. Then the ship settled in Vladivostok and was rebuilt into Arctic navigation mode.
Vladimir Ivanovich especially remembered last year’s voyage to the Southern Continent, namely to the islands of the Great Antarctic Archipelago, where the Argentine scientific and naval base Esperanza is located.
“The base has a permanent staff of one and a half hundred people, but in the summer family members of the staff move there, and the population of Esperanza doubles,” the captain noted. - There are more than three dozen buildings in the village. There is a church and a museum. And last season, as an official representative of Russia, I participated in the opening ceremony of the school.
THE CAPTAIN'S SON IS Eager to go to Moscow State University
To stand at the helm of one of the best ships in the Far Eastern Shipping Company, which has confirmed its exceptional performance and reliability in the polar latitudes of both hemispheres of the Earth, is a great honor that can only be entrusted to a high professional. What roads led Vladimir Fedorenko to the captain's bridge of the Vasily Golovnin?
He was born in Vladivostok in 1961. After school, without much hesitation, he entered the Far Eastern Higher Engineering Marine School (DVVIMU), as did two thirds of his classmates.
“There was no question about choosing a profession for us at all, since our 52nd school was located on Century Avenue - in a residential microdistrict, which was supervised by the Far Eastern Shipping Company,” explained Vladimir Ivanovich. - Although there were no sailors in my family... In 1984, I graduated from the Faculty of Navigation and went to work at the shipping company. Since that time, I have replaced many ships - training ships, dry cargo ships, icebreakers. For ten years I sailed on the so-called “carrots” - icebreaking transport ships. For three years he was senior mate on the Alexey Chirikov, captain on the Pioneer Slavyanka and Amur.
This year his son Kirill graduates from school. Where will it go? No question - of course, in... no, now not DVVIMU, but Maritime State University (MSU). But again - for navigation.
“Like no other profession, the profession of a sailor gives you the opportunity to immediately earn good money,” Fedorenko supports his son. - By the way, foreign shipping companies today are showing great interest in graduates of Russian specialized universities. The Koreans and Japanese monitor our students from the second and third years, paying the most promising scholarships, and the university - their education under a special program. Graduates are recruited into their fleet. Starting to work as at least fourth mates, young people earn up to 2.5 thousand dollars a month.
SHORE OF CHUKOTKA - VIEW FROM THE SEA
Regarding the specifics of navigation off the coast of Chukotka, Vladimir Fedorenko noted that our ports are not in the best condition; they are poorly adapted to handle large-tonnage fleets. Poorly equipped berths, worn-out port fleet, loading and reloading complexes... Moreover, according to the captain, the situation in Pevek is better than in Anadyr: they bought a new tug there, seasonal crews from Ukraine value every hour, every ruble, promptly processing ships:
- If I came to Anadyr with an incomplete load and they promised to process my ship in three days, then in Pevek a fully loaded ship (300 containers) is processed in less than a day. And then, one tugboat is not enough for the main port of Chukotka. However, the worst is in Egvekinot and Providence.
LET HIM GO TO ANTARCTICA!
The crew of the vessel during this navigation is even slightly larger than the regular one - 33 people. There are several trainees from the Maritime State University on board. As is customary among sailors, the crew is frequently renewed, but the core of the command staff remains stable. A recognized veteran of the team is Illarionovich. This is senior electrician Vladimir Kovalevsky.
Like the captain, he is not from a maritime dynasty. And he was born in 1948, far from the sea, in the city of Iman, Primorsky Territory (today Dalnerechensk). But after eight years of school, he purposefully rushed to Vladivostok, where he graduated from the State Technical University, receiving the specialty of a ship electrical installer. Worked at Dalzavod. Then - military service. He repaid his debt to the Motherland by serving as a border guard in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Returned to work at the Far Eastern Shipping Company.
He immediately became part of the tanker fleet and received his baptism at sea in 1969 on board the tanker Pyotr Shershov:
- To tell the truth, at first I was terribly seasick - I fell to the porthole and “poisoned” overboard.
Kovalevsky studied all his life, without changing his once chosen profession of a specialist in marine electrical equipment. At first he continued his studies at a correspondence school for command personnel. In a year and a half, I completed three classes and entered the correspondence secondary nautical school with a specialty in marine electrical mechanics. After graduating in 1978, he entered FEVIMU. Thus, he has two maritime educations - specialized secondary and higher.
For a long time he worked transporting coal from Anadyr to Egvekinot, and now his seventh year comes to Chukotka on the Vasily Golovnin. He has a special, extremely important role here.
“Vasily Golovnin is not just a motor ship, but a diesel-electric ship of reinforced ice class,” Vladimir Kovalevsky clarified. - The speed of its engines is regulated very smoothly, without jerking.
This characteristic allows you to maneuver among the ice as efficiently as possible and, most importantly, safely. Monitoring the serviceability of electric motors is the main responsibility of Kovalevsky, under whose command an electrical group of eight specialists operates.
For many years of work, he was awarded the gold badge “Honored Worker of the Far Eastern Shipping Company” and the badge “Honorary Polar Explorer”. Alas, I haven’t had a chance to go to Antarctica yet - I haven’t been included in the replacement Antarctic crew.
- I would like to see the emperor penguins! - Kovalevsky shared his dream.
Help "KS"
The diesel-electric ship “Vasily Golovnin” is named after Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin, a Russian navigator - explorer of the Pacific Ocean and the Kuril Islands, a “round-the-world explorer” of the 19th century.
His name is marked on geographical maps: Golovnina Bay, Golovnina Volcano, the village of Golovnino on the island. Kunashir, Golovnin Strait in the Kuril Islands, Cape Golovnin on the western coast of North America, Golovnin Mountain on the island. New Earth. According to maritime belief, the name of a ship influences its fate and work, so “Vasily Golovnin” plows the seas and oceans, in the literal sense of the word, from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
The motor ship "Vasily Golovnin" of the Far Eastern Shipping Company, heading to Antarctica as part of a project to supply Argentine research stations, today loaded tanks for transporting fuel and generators in the Chinese port of Shanghai and headed for Singapore. The ship will enter this harbor on December 9 for bunkering (to receive fuel, food and other cargo for the crew), after which it will proceed to the port of Klang (Malaysia) to receive helicopters on board, the press service of the shipping company reported.
Next, a passage to Buenos Aires is planned, where the ship will arrive on January 10, 2015. There, "Vasily Golovnin" will load into its holds the main supplies for Argentine researchers of the country of penguins, and from there it will head for Antarctica.
This voyage, which began on November 25 from Vladivostok, will be the seventh for the diesel-electric ship Vasily Golovnin, carried out as part of the supply of Argentinean Antarctic stations.
At the end of October this year, the Far Eastern Shipping Company won the tender of the Argentine Ministry of Defense to supply research stations in Antarctica in 2015. Work on the project will last until mid-February. The company does not disclose the cost of the contract. The shipping company has been participating in this project since 2008.
