Peter the Great (steamboat)

"Emperor Peter the Great" - a passenger ship. Built by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank, UK, commissioned by ROPiT , launched in 1913.

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Emperor Peter the Great
Hospital ship "Emperor Peter the Great"
Flag	Russia the USSR
Class and type of vessel	Passenger ship Hospital ship
Port of registry	Odessa (Russian Empire) Vladivostok (USSR)
Operator	ROPiT Far Eastern Shipping Company
Manufacturer	John Brown & Co., Glasgow , UK
Launched	1913
Status	disposed of
Main characteristics
Length	120.5 m
Width	16.7 m
Draft	7.9 m
Engines	Two John Brown steam engines
Power	5800 h.p.
Mover	2 screws
Speed	14.3 knots
Crew	155 pax
Passenger capacity	374 people

Until 1914 he went along the route: Odessa - Constantinople - Piraeus - Smyrna - Alexandria, ROPiTovskaya Alexandria line.

In August 1914, as a hospital ship of the Sevastopol port, it became part of the Black Sea Fleet . In May 1918 it was captured by German troops, from December 1918 - under the control of the Anglo-French troops.

At the end of 1919, ROPiT was returned, then chartered by a French shipping company.

On February 17, 1920, on the way from Varna to Odessa, north of Cape Kaliakra, he ran into a mine, got a hole and sank after 28 hours.

Hospital ship "Emperor Peter the Great" and the submarine "Walrus" in Sevastopol, summer 1915

In October 1938, the EPRON was lifted, towed to Odessa and put into overhaul.

From June 22 to 30, 1941 - as part of the Black Sea Fleet as a transport. June 30 by order of the command flooded to create a fence on the approaches to the port of Odessa.

In 1942, raised by German rescuers and towed to Romania. At the end of World War II, the USSR was returned. In 1950-1952 The VEB Warnow-Werft shipyard in Warnemunde (GDR) underwent a major overhaul.

Since 1954, as part of the Far Eastern Shipping Company under the name "Yakutia". He worked on the passenger line Vladivostok - Korsakov (south of Sakhalin ). In 1975, it was rebuilt into the Morskaya-2 floating hotel .

In 1988, it was sold for scrap and cut into metal in South Korea.