On July 19th, 2013, Nevsky Shipyard presented the vessel “SPASATEL KAVDEJKIN” to Acceptance Committee appointed by Federal Marine and River Transport of Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. “SPASATEL KAVDEJKIN” is the second multipurpose salvage vessel of MPSV07 project, capacity 4 МW with ice class Arc5.
The Customer – The Direction of State Contractor of Marine Transport Development Program of Federal Marine and River Transport of Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.
The project MPSV07 is developed by Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb, JSC.
Main characteristics:
Length overall - 73,0 m
Width overall -16,6 m
Depth - 6,7 m
Service drafts - 4,0 - 5,1 m
Capacity of power plant - 4 MW
Full speed – 15 knots
Bollard pull - 70 t
Endurance - 20 days
Ship crew - 20 persons
Places for survivors - 81
Ship’s class: КМ 
Arc5 [1] AUT1-ICS OMBO FF3WS DYNPOS-2 EPP Salvage ship
The multipurpose salvage vessel is intended for carrying out of the following purposes:
• stand by, rescue operation in areas of shipping, fishing, marine oil and gas fields;
• providing technical support and assistance in dangerous for shipping, sea foods production areas, servicing of transport operations in ports;
• search and assistance to vessels in distress;
• search, rescue, evacuation and accommodation of survivors, provision of first aid to injured persons;
• refloat from ground and reef of damaged vessels, pumping out water from flooded compartments;
• towing of damaged vessels and objects to shelter area, and also providing sea towing of vessels, floating objects and structures in ice conditions and at open water;
• providing assistance to vessels and rescue operations in ice conditions and at open water;
• providing fire fighting at floating and coastal objects accessible from sea;
• supply and logistic support, including performing underwater engineering operations with divers at depth up to 60 m;
• performance of deep-water diving engineering operations with an opportunity of long stay of divers under pressure with working depth up to 300 m;
• fire-fighting of burning on water fuel, oil and oil product spills emergency response service;
• survey and underwater hull cleaning of vessels, floating and coastal objects;
• inspection of a sea-bottom and damaged objects on depths down to 1000 m.
