Almirante Viel

At ASMAR Ship's Yard Talcahuano, Chile.

IMO N°: 9843948

Name: Almirante Viel
Operator: Chilean Navy
Builder: ASMAR Ship' yard, Talcahuano.Yard N°: 114
Launched: 22 December 2022 Commissioned: 2022 (planned)
Status: Launched, under fitting out repairs.

Type: Icebreaker, research vessel
DWT: 3.813 GRT: 10,044
Displacement: 13,000 tons
LOA: 111,00 Mts (364 ft 2 in) B: 21,00 Mts (68 ft 11 in) D: 10,60 Mts. (34ft 9 in)
Draught: 7,20 Mts (23 ft 7 in)
Ice classPolar Class 5
Installed power: Four General Electric diesel engines
Propulsion: Diesel-electric; two shafts (2 × 4.5 MW)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) in open water. 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) in 1,00 Mt. (3.3 ft) ice
Range: 14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km; 16,000 mi)
Endurance: 60 days
Aviation facilities: Helipad and hangar

Almirante Viel is a Polar Class 5 icebreaker currently under construction in Chile.Previously referred to with the project name Antartica 1, it will replace the 1969-built second-hand vessel Almirante Óscar Viel acquired from Canada in 1994 and decommissioned in 2019. Accounts differ as to when construction of the ship began. The Santiago Times reported the first steel was cut in May 2017, while Jane's Navy International reported construction began in August 2018.

She will have the capacity to house 150 crew and researchers or passengers.

She will be able to sail through one-year ice, one meter thick, at 2 knots (3.7 km/h).