MT Varzuga
Varzuga anchored in Northern Dvina River in 2018 | |
| History | |
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| Finland | |
| Name | Uikku |
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| Port of registry | Naantali, Finland |
| Ordered | February 1973 |
| Builder | Werft Nobiskrug GmbH (Rendsburg, Germany) |
| Yard number | 689 |
| Laid down | 15 February 1977 |
| Launched | 2 July 1977 |
| Completed | 31 October 1977 |
| In service | 1977–2003 |
| Fate | Sold to Russia in 2003 |
| Russia | |
| Name | Varzuga (Варзуга) |
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| In service | 2003–2020 |
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| Fate | Sold for scrap in 2021 |
| General characteristics (after refit) | |
| Type | Product tanker |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 22,654 t (22,296 long tons) |
| Length | 164.40 m (539 ft) (overall) |
| Beam | 22.22 m (73 ft) |
| Draught | 9.55 m (31 ft) |
| Depth | 12.00 m (39 ft) |
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| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | Diesel electric; 11.4 MW Azipod unit |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Capacity | 8 cargo tanks, 16,215 m3 (98%) |
MT Varzuga (Russian: Варзуга) was an ice-strengthened product tanker that sailed under the Finnish flag in 1977–2003 and under the Russian flag in 2003–2021. After her modernization in 1993, she became the first merchant ship to be equipped with Azipod, an electric azimuthing propulsion unit developed in Finland in the late 1980s. She was also the first non-Soviet ship to transit the Northern Sea Route.