Pyotr Lebedev (research vessel)
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History | |
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Name | Chapayev[1] |
Builder | Wärtsilä Crichton-Vulcan, Turku, Finland[1] |
Yard number | 1002 |
Laid down | 16 April 1956 |
Acquired | 3 April 1957 |
Soviet Union | |
Name | Pyotr Lebedev |
Namesake | Pyotr Lebedev |
In service | 1966 |
Out of service | 1977 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |
Name | Pyotr Lebedev[1] |
Identification | IMO number: 5276159[1] |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Research vessel/survey vessel |
Tonnage |
Pyotr Lebedev is a research vessel, built at Wärtsilä Crichton-Vulcan in Turku, Finland, originally as a merchant vessel Chapayev in 1957. She was subsequently acquired for the Soviet Union and refitted as a research ship.[2] The vessel was owned and operated by the Andreev Acoustics Institute, and was used to make hydrophysical observations of the Atlantic Ocean such as during the Polygon experiment.[3] Pyotr Lebedev possessed five on-board laboratories used to study hydroacoustics, hydrology, hydrobiology, hydrochemistry, and electronics.[3] The ship was active as a research vessel from 1967 until 1977.[4] She is current registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[1]
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[edit]References
[edit]- Brekhovskikh, Leonid Maksimovich (1990). Ocean and Man: Present and Future. Moscow: Nauka Publishers. ISBN 5-02-022266-6.