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Thought I would start the New Year out with a ship that recently captured my interest. Canada's projected Arctic Class 8 icebreaker, would have been the largest non-nuclear icebreaker in the world. The Polar 8 Project was a Canadian shipbuilding project based upon a class of 167-meter, 101,000-horsepower, diesel-electric powered high endurance icebreakers (polar class PC 1) intended for the Canadian Coast Guard. The project was developed as a means to assert Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic Ocean. It commenced in 1985 but was cancelled in 1990 while still in the final design stage.

Beautiful ship, just please fix the image. dont resize it using photobucket.

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Updated image. Had to use Dropbox has photobucket scaled back their upload options.

Wow This is a very impressive drawing/ship; well done

Lovely work. Not only is the drawing great, the looks of the ship are appealing.

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Are you sure the scale is right? Something seems off; besides this would be larger than Russia's nuclear-powered ice breakers.

Indeed beautifull rendering of a very pleasing looking ships.
Thumbs up mate

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If built, the Polar 8 Project ship would have been the largest and most powerful icebreaker (both nuclear and non-nuclear). It would have a crew of 116 and exercise year-round sovereignty of the Canadian Arctic. The Canadian Government had hoped to have on board a federal court, a provincial court, an RCMP detachment, a detachment of Rangers, a good library, good diagnostic services for the people living in the area and it would have been on station in the Arctic for three, four, five years at a time, only heading south when she needed her hull cleaned. It was originally planned to build a nuclear powered class 10 icebreaker, but they down graded to the present concept shown here. She would have been been equipped with two helicopters, 2 landing craft type vessels, 4 life rafts, and possibly 2 hovercraft.

Holy that awesome.

only wondering about 2 things: no hangar? and .... can you show me more about this? it sounds interesting.

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