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| M/S Polar Explorer | |
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| File:Polar Explorer.jpg | |
| Polar Explorer ice tourism | |
| Type | Icebreaking tugboat |
| Former names | Schnoorturm (1976-1990) Sun Wrestler (1991-1998) Statesman (1998-2008) Eide Wrestler (2009-2015) |
| IMO number | 7415137 |
| Call sign | SBET |
| Owner | Marine Group |
| Port of registry | Piteå |
| Builder | Elsflether Werft AG, Elsfleth, Germany |
| Yard number | 194 |
| Laid down | 1974 |
| Launched | 1975 |
| Completed | 1975 |
| Rebuilt | 1991 |
| Length | 70 m (1975) 78 m (1987) |
| Beam | 14.03 m |
| Draught | 6.12 m |
| Gross tonnage | 1,976 GRT (1991) |
| Deadweight | 593 tons (1975) 1,791 tons (1987) |
| Power | 9,460 bhp |
| Propulsion | Two MAK 8M551AK engines One Ulstein azimuth thruster of 1,000 bhp |
M/S Polar Explorer is an icebreaking offshore vessel used for tourist traffic in the ice of the Bay of Bothnia during winter.
The vessel was built by Elsflether Werft AG in Elsfleth, Germany, and was delivered in June 1975 to Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa in Bremen, Germany. During the winter season of 1979, she was used in support of the icebreaker Hansa by the Wasser- und Schiffahrtsdirektion Kiel in Kiel to break ice in Kiel Bay.
She was purchased in 1980 by VTG Versorgungsschifffart GmbH in Bremen and served in offshore operations from 1981 to 1986 in Canadian waters off St. John's in Newfoundland and Labrador. In November 1986, a fire broke out during a towing assignment between the United States and Taiwan off the coast of Panama. The superstructure was destroyed in the fire. The damaged vessel was towed in 1987 to Conastil Shipyard in Cartagena, Colombia, for repairs. She was purchased by a British subsidiary of the Norwegian company Eide Marine Services in Høylandsbygd on Halsnøy, which had her rebuilt, including a 7.5-metre extension. She was in service in the United Kingdom from 1991 to 2015, owned by various British companies, and was renamed Sun Wrestler, then Statesman in 1998, and Eide Wrestler in 2008.
Marine Group purchased the vessel in 2016 for tours departing from Båtskärsnäs, in cooperation with the Finnish travel company Polar Explorer in Rovaniemi, and renamed it Polar Explorer. Marine Group had previously taken over M/S Arctic Explorer from Piteå Havsbad, which had also operated ice tourism in the Piteå archipelago.
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