Russia’s arctic nuclear icebreaker fleet dealt a blow in Mediterranean

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nuclear-icebreaker-delay-ursa-major-sinks-2006600

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  1. By Hugh Cameron — Live News Reporter |

    The Russian vessel which sank off the coast of Spain was reportedly carrying equipment for Moscow’s newest nuclear-powered icebreaker, promising further delays in construction.

    The Ursa Major cargo ship sank on Monday, after an explosion in the engine room left the vessel stranded in international waters between Spain and Algeria. Fourteen of the 16 crew members were reportedly rescued and transported to a port in port in Cartagena, while two remain missing.

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  2. not an expert in engine rooms nor a sailor or anything, 

    but should engine rooms on Russian ships explode?

    again … only an amateur … but that seems like it might be an issue?

  3. According to a post here:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/1hldoma/the_ursa_major_was_heading_to_vladivostok_and_not/
    the Ursa Major had
    “two 45-ton hatches for the construction of the new Project 10510”
    nuclear powered icebreaker on board.
    This video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_eHRNpAPo
    also shows hat the vessel was listing before it sank.
    .
    (This reminded me that there is the shanty
    “What will we do with a drunken sailor?”
    and that the lyrics in German is slightly different:
    “Ho, our mate, he has loaded crooked!”)

  4. Russia can’t seem to catch a break with their ships lately. (Or maybe they are catching breaks……)

  5. “The *Rossiya* has been described by First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov as the world’s “most powerful icebreaker,” and “the only one of its kind.””

    For now it remains none of its kind.

  6. Demitry had trouble translating the Chinese instructions for converting from nuclear to internal combustion.

  7. They arrived to discover the ice in the Mediterranean has mysteriously vanished.

  8. What we want is Russia’s fleet made as tiny and pathetic as possible in order to deal with every vestige of their smuggling

  9. When I was a machinist mate in the Navy, they explicitly told us to try and not blow up the engines.

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