Icebreakers

Xue Long (Chinese: 雪龙; pinyin: Xuě Lóng; literally Snow Dragon) is a Chinese icebreaking research vessel.

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.

SS Baikal was an ice-breaking train ferry that linked the eastern and western portions of the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Lake Baikal.

MSV Botnica is a multipurpose offshore support vessel and icebreaker built by Finnyards in Rauma, Finland, in 1998.

The RV Araon is a large icebreaker operated by the Government of South Korea.

The MS Arctic Explorer was a ship which sank off St Anthony, Newfoundland, in the Strait of Belle Isle, on 3 July 1981.

MV Tulpar is a Kazakh ice-breaking and supply ship that was built in 2002 by Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein Verft.

Aurora Borealis is a proposed European research icebreaker, comparable to the world's strongest icebreakers, planned jointly by a consortium of fifteen participant organizations and companies from ten European nations.

BIO Hespérides (A-33), is a Spanish polar research vessel.

Röthelstein is an Austrian river icebreaker owned by Verbund AG.

Arcticaborg (Арктикаборг) is an icebreaking platform supply vessel operated by Wagenborg Kazakhstan in the Caspian Sea.

Icebreaker Eisvogel (English: Kingfisher) is an icebreaker employed by the Port of Vienna, Austria.

HDMS Danbjørn (sometimes referred to as Danbjoern) is a Danish icebreaker built for breaking and reporting ice in the sea for Danish Ice Service in 1965.

This is a list of icebreakers and other special vessels capable of operating independently in ice-covered waters.

Petroleum exploitation companies operate a fleet of Ice Breaking Emergency Evacuation Vessels (IBEEV) on the Caspian Sea, to service the extensive oil fields there.

The Icebird is a cargo vessel which delivers supplies to the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) bases, principally Macquarie Island, Mawson, Casey and Davis Stations.