Sankt Erik
preserved watercraft · Sweden
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Sankt Erik
- IMO number
- 5311442
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Vessel type
- preserved watercraft
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
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- Length overall
- 61 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1915
- Builder
- Finnboda Shipyard
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Sankt Erik
SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker and museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. She was launched in 1915 as Isbrytaren II ("Ice breaker II") and was a conventionally-built Baltic icebreaker with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward-facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull. She also has heeling tanks which can be filled and emptied with seawater in turn to rock the ship to widen the channel. Her reciprocating steam engines are the most powerful functioning ones in Sweden. She was the country's first large icebreaker, and was owned and used by the City of Stockholm to keep the channels around it clear of ice. She was also sometimes used outside the Stockholm area by the Swedish government since it had contributed towards her cost.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Sankt Erik now?
- Sankt Erik has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Sankt Erik?
- Sankt Erik is a preserved watercraft sailing under the flag of Sweden, built in 1915 by Finnboda Shipyard. The vessel is 61 m long.
- Has Sankt Erik been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Sankt Erik appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).