Moored outside of the Vasa Museum in 2005
Career	Image:Swedish flag
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Yard:	Finnboda Shipyard, Sweden
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Launched:	1915
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Fate:	Decommissioned 1977, became a museum ship in 1980 moored in Stockholm, Sweden
General Characteristics
Displacement:	432 tonnes empty, 1441 tonnes gross
Length:	58.09 m (191 ft)
Beam:	16.99 m (55 ft)
Draft:	6.50 m (21 ft)
Propulsion:	Two triple expansion reciprocating steam engines, four Scottish boilers. Originally coal fired but converted to oil in 1958. The main, aft one is 2800 hp and drives a single screw, and a 1200 hp engine forward of the boiler room drives a screw in the bow.
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Complement:	30

The SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker, and a museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The Vasa Museum (Vasa Museet), located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden, is a maritime museum that displays the worlds only surviving 17th century ship, HMS Wasa. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is an old ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...   Stockholm? is the capital and the largest city in Sweden. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ... A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated under pressure. ... US Coast Guard icebreakers near McMurdo Station, February 2002 An icebreaker is a special purpose ship designed to move and navigate through ice covered marine environments. ... A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is an old ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public. ... The Vasa Museum (Vasa Museet), located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden, is a maritime museum that displays the worlds only surviving 17th century ship, HMS Wasa. ...   Stockholm? is the capital and the largest city in Sweden. ...

She was launched in 1915 as the Isbrytaren II, and was a conventionally constructed Baltic icebreaker, with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull. She also has heeling tanks which can be filled and emptied with seawater in turn to rock the ship to widen the channel. Her reciprocating steam engines are the most powerful functioning ones in Sweden. 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A natural, 4 tonne, block of ice on a beach in Iceland Icicles Ice is the solid form of water. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... A hull is the body or frame of a ship or boat. ... Sea water is water from a sea or ocean. ...

Although she was the country's first large icebreaker, she was owned by the city of Stockholm and used to keep the channels around it clear of ice. She was also sometimes used outside of the Stockholm area by the Swedish government since they had contributed towards her cost. Sweden is a constitutional monarchy with a representative democracy based on a parliamentary system. ...

She was renamed in 1958 during an extensive refit, which saw her converted from coal to oil, the bridge was enclosed to protect the deck crew from the weather, and radar and radio fitted. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground either by underground mining, open-pit mining or strip mining. ... Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... A log bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle. ... This long range radar antenna (approximately 40m (130ft) in diameter) rotates on a track to observe activities near the horizon. ...

References

• Vasa museum
• Paper on the restoration of the ship presented at the Third International Conference on the Technical Aspects of the Preservation of Historic Vessels in 1997