SOLD TO ARGENTINA FOR USE AS EXPEDITION VESSEL:
"Ice Lady" (ex Kustgaard, ex Uisko)
Type of vessel: Salvage vessel, tugboat, ice - breaker. (Former guard vessel)
Built: 1959, Valmet, Helsinki, Finland. Yard no 196.
Material: Steel, wheelhouse in aluminium.
Length: 43,40 meters
Breadth: 7,30 meters
Draft: 4,10 meters
Tonnage: 294 GRT 89 NRT
Main engine: Werkspoor TMABS 390, 1.800 bhp, 2 new pistons and liners, overhauled turbo. KaMeWa adjustable pitch propeller, stainless steel
Cruising speed: 15,5 knots, max 17, 5 knots, consumption: 1.750 litres/24 h at 10-11 knots.
Auxiliary engine: 2 x Daimler Benz 98 hp, A van Kaick generators 75 kW, all overhauled.
Electric system: 220/380 V, 110 V emergency, 380 shore connection.
Bow-thruster: Brunvold/Scania D11 200 hp
Bollard pull: 19,6 tons
Bunker: Gasoil - total 40 tons, F.W - 14 tons, Ballast - 2 x 5 tons
Classification: New Norwegian certificates 1998 as a Coast guard vessel. Finnish Ice class 1A.. Today Sao Tome flag and class. Minimum safe crew is three persons.
Equipment: Most of the electronics new 1997-98; Sailor Compact radio sender, Imarsat C type H2095, Imarsat C type TT3020 B, Raytheon VHF/UHF transeiver tye Ray 98E, 2 x Sailor RT 2048 VHF/UHF transeiver, VHF/UHF transeiver type SP 3110+ GMDSS, Sailor Compact RX receiver, Sailor R501 watch-keeper, Cospas-Sarsat Epirb type Tron 30S MKII, Robertson RS5800 GPS, Navtex NT 900, Furuno FR 1600 radar, 2 x Tron SART radio-transponders, Fax equipment H 1252 B, DSC Decoder VHF RM 2042, DSC Decoder MF/HF RM2150, ADF TD L 1550, Koden colour echo-sounder (1998), Seffle steering, purifiers for lube oil and bilge water, boiler, electric anchor winch, Weedo 17’ SOLAS-MOB with Johnson 70 hp (new 1998), 15 tons towing winch, CO2-firefigthing, 2 x Viking 12 Solas life-rafts.
General arrangement: Berths for 15 persons in 9 single and 3 double cabins, galley, stores, messroom, sauna, toilets, showers. Large aft deck.
Hull painted with ice.breaking paint 1998 (abt USD 55.000), radio equipment renewed 1997-98 (abt USD 58.000), main engine overhauled 1998, aux-engines overhauled 1999, cabins renewed 1997 and 1999.
Position: Oslo area, Norway