Stephan Jantzen, ein eisbrecher mit geschichte

Oesterle, Bernd: 2025 Berlin, softcover, 68 pages, with many photos. Stephan Jantzen, ein Eisbrecher mit Geschichte by Bernd Oesterle provides a comprehensive historical account of the German icebreaker Stephan Jantzen, built in 1967 as the last ship of the Nikitich-class series at the Admiralty Shipyard in Leningrad for the East German maritime fleet. The book chronicles the vessel's service from 1968 to 2005, detailing its dual role as both an icebreaker during winter months and a high-seas tugboat during ice-free seasons, including its most famous mission towing the 200,000-ton tanker "Tula" over 1,200 nautical miles from Schleswig-Holstein to northern Spain in 1976. Also the ship her technical details. New!