SS Sankt Erik
SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker and museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. She was launched in 1915 as Isbrytaren II and was a conventionally-built 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: 1915 icebreaker
- Also known as: “IMO 5311442” and “Sankt Erik”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vasa Museum and Nordic Museum.
Vasa Museum
Museum
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The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. Vasa Museum is situated 110 metres north of SS Sankt Erik.
Nordic Museum
Museum
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The Nordic Museum is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period to the contemporary period. Nordic Museum is situated 280 metres northeast of SS Sankt Erik.
Lightship Finngrundet
Photo: Jll, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lightship Finngrundet is a lightvessel built in 1903 and now a museum ship moored in Stockholm, Sweden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Galärvarvet and King Oscar’s Terrace.
SS Sankt Erik
- Categories: icebreaker, working life museum, preserved watercraft, ship, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.32712° or 59° 19′ 38″ northLongitude
18.09088° or 18° 5′ 27″ eastInception
1915Open location code
9FFW83GR+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 11005807867OpenStreetMap feature
historic=shipOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q3496868
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Swedish—“SS Sankt Erik” goes by many names.
- Czech: “SS Sankt Erik”
- German: “Sankt Erik”
- Italian: “Rompighiaccio Sankt Erik”
- Papiamento: “IMO 5311442”
- Swedish: “S/S Sankt Erik”
- Swedish: “Sankt Erik”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Maritime Museum, Stockholm and HMS Spica.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “SS Sankt Erik”. Photo: Jll, CC BY-SA 3.0.