Patent ID: 9611007
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: B63B

Claim:
1. A wide beam, multi-hull icebreaker comprising: a plurality of hulls spaced apart and arranged generally in parallel to one another, each of the plurality of hulls comprising a bow thereon configured to ride up on a sheet of ice through which the wide beam, multi-hull icebreaker traverses and break the sheet of ice via a weight of the icebreaker pushing down thereon; and a bridging structure connecting the plurality of hulls; wherein the plurality of spaced apart hulls define at least one channel therebetween into which at least of portion of ice broken by the hulls is routed; and wherein the plurality of hulls are spaced apart a distance such that a beam of the wide beam, multi-hull icebreaker is as wide as a beam of a commercial vessel it is servicing.