Tarmo (1907 icebreaker)

Tarmo is a Finnish steam-powered icebreaker, the third state-owned icebreaker of Finland and the last Finnish steam icebreaker to stay in service. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company built her at Newcastle upon Tyne after winning a tender against Krupp Germaniawerft, Gourlay Brothers, Burmeister and Wain and Hawthorn Leslie. She was launched on 9 September 1907, delivered in December and commissioned on 4 January 1908. Two triple-expansion steam engines drove a stern propeller and a bow propeller, and her five coal-fired boilers were converted to heavy fuel oil in 1950. She served under Russian, German and Finnish command in the First World War and the Finnish Civil War, including the capture of her from Russian forces in 1918, and in the Winter War a Soviet bomb killed 38 of her crew in 1940. She was decommissioned in 1970, restored in the early 1990s and is now a museum ship at the Maritime Museum of Finland in Kotka.