MT Renda  Renda ("Ренда") was a Russian ice-strengthened oil tanker. In 2012, she became noted after a fuel supply mission through a pack ice field to Nome, Alaska. The vessel was broken up in 2019. "Renda" was laid down at Rauma-Repola shipyard in Savonlinna, Finland, on 7 January 1983 and launched ready as "Aleysk" on 10 February 1984. She was delivered to the Latvian Shipping Company with Ventspils as her port of registry. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, she was sold or handed over to Aleyska Shipping Corporation, reflagged to Latvia and renamed "Aleiska". In 1996, she was acquired by Renda Shipping Ltd. and renamed "Renda". She has been used to transport oil products in the Russian far east and has occasionally called ports of Adak and Dutch Harbor in Alaska. In 2013, she was sold to Alisa Co. Ltd. but retained her old name and Russian flag. In 2016, the vessel was sold again and renamed "Tigr-1". She was broken up in 2019. In February 2005, a general cargo ship "Passat" send out a distress call after the vessel became trapped among ice floes from the southern tip of Sakhalin Island. "Passat" had been underway from Korsakov (Russia) to Busan (South Korea) when it encountered difficult ice conditions. By the time a decision was made to turn back, the vessel had already been surrounded by ice. The distress call was picked up by "Renda". The oil tanker, designed for operations in the ice-infested Arctic waters, reached the icebound "Passat", cut her free from the ice, and escorted the general cargo ship to open water. In November 2011, a late fall storm prevented the final fuel delivery by a barge to Nome, Alaska. Without this, the city of 3,600 inhabitants would run out of fuel months before the first shipment could be arranged in late May or June of the following year. As a result, the ice-strengthened oil tanker "Renda" was chartered to carry a cargo of diesel fuel, heating oil and gasoline to the city. This was the first time a fuel supply mission was attempted in the middle of the winter. In January 2012, a Jones Act waiver was arranged with the support of Alaska's congressional delegation so that "Renda" could load fuel at Dutch Harbor and transport it to Nome, a task normally reserved for US-flagged vessels.