"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.
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.
Links
- Transports
- Yakutia
- http://www.kruiznik.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=659 Articles about the ship "Yakutia" (formerly "Emperor Peter the Great")]
- Odyssey of “Emperor Peter the Great”
- Four Fates of the Steamboats of the Emperor Peter the Great Series
- Yakutia (Emperor Peter the Great, Peter the Great)
- [www.gosarhiv.sev.net.ua/fulldoc/2007-01/mob_suda.pdf Mobilized vessels in the Black Sea Fleet during the First World War]
- Yakutia