SS Admiral Nakhimov
Admiral Nakhimov in 1975 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| → Germany | |
| Name | SS Berlin |
| Namesake | City of Berlin, Germany |
| Operator | → Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Builder | Bremer Vulkan |
| Launched | 24 March 1925 |
| In service | 17 September 1925 |
| Out of service | 16 July 1939 |
| Reclassified | Workers' cruise ship, 1939 |
| Home port | Bremen, Germany |
| Identification | Call sign QMBT → DOCL |
| Fate |
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| Germany | |
| Name | SS Lazarettschiff A |
| Operator | Kriegsmarine |
| Commissioned | 23 August 1939 |
| Reclassified | Hospital ship |
| Stricken | 31 January 1945 |
| Fate |
|
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | SS Admiral Nakhimov |
| Namesake | Admiral Pavel Nakhimov |
| Operator | Black Sea Shipping Company |
| In service | 1957 |
| Reclassified | Passenger liner |
| Stricken | 31 August 1986 |
| Home port | Odessa, Ukrainian SSR |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sank after colliding with the Soviet bulk carrier Pyotr Vasyov |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger liner |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 174.3 m (571 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 21.02 m (69 ft 0 in) |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Capacity | 1,101 + 24 extra passengers: 323 first-class; 290-second-class; 488 third-class; |
| Crew | 313 + 41 extra crew |
SS Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов), launched in March 1925 and originally named SS Berlin, was a passenger liner of the German Weimar Republic later converted to a Kriegsmarine hospital ship, then a Soviet passenger ship. On 31 August 1986, Admiral Nakhimov collided with the Soviet large bulk carrier Pyotr Vasyov (Russian: Пётр Васёв) in the Tsemes Bay, near the Port of Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, and quickly sank. In total, 423 of the 1,234 people on board died.