Almirante Viel will replace its predecessor of the same name (AP-46 “Almirante Viel”, ex Norman McLeod), which was built at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard in Montreal, Canada, in 1969, and then served in the Chilean Navy from 1995 until its decommission in 2019. Its construction represents an important milestone for the Chilean naval industry: it is the first icebreaker to be built in the South Pacific, the biggest ever built in South America (Argentina’s Almirante Irizar is similar in displacement, but was built in Finland), and is now the newest in the continent.
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