Semyon Dezhnev (icebreaker)

From Citizendium
Revision as of 22:16, 10 October 2023 by George Swan (talk | contribs) (copy editing)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Definition [?]
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
This editable Main Article is under development and subject to a disclaimer.

There have been several icebreakers known as Semyon Dezhnev.

Early in World War II Germany made arrangements with the Soviet Union for the German auxiliary cruiser Komet to transit the Northern Sea Route across the top of Siberia, so it could raid allied merchant shipping in the Pacific Ocean.[1] As a ruse de guerre the Komet disguised herself as the Soviet icebreaker Semyon Dezhvev so it could avoid allied detection as it proceeded up the Norwegian coast.

In 2010 a Russian icebreaker named Semyan Deznev served in Baltic Sea.[2]

A seventeenth century Russian explorer named Semyon Dezhnyov is credited as being the first European to transit the Bering Strait.

References

  1. Philbin III, Tobias R., The Lure of Neptune: German-Soviet Naval Collaboration and Ambitions, 1919 - 1941, University of South Carolina Press, 1994, ISBN 0872499928, page 138-9
  2. Restrictions to Navigation.