History

Zhong Shan Da Xue Ji Di is a Chinese icebreaker owned by the Sun Yat-sen University.

She was built in 1983 as an icebreaking anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) Ikaluk for BeauDril, the drilling subsidiary of Gulf Canada Resources, to support offshore oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea.

In the 1990s, the vessel was acquired by Canadian Marine Drilling (Canmar) and renamed Canmar Ikaluk.

In 1998, she was purchased by Smit International and served in the Sakhalin oil fields as Smit Sibu.

In 2009, she was acquired by FEMCO Management and in 2012 given back her original name.

Ikaluk was sold to Chinese explorers Zhang Xinyu and Liang Hong in February 2018 and renamed Beijing Ocean Leader.

In late 2021, the vessel was donated to the Sun Yat-sen University.