Steamer Tovarishch Stalin
| History | |
|---|---|
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Tovarishch Stalin |
| Namesake | Joseph Stalin |
| Operator |
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| Builder | Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad |
| Laid down | 24 January 1925 |
| Launched | 25 October 1925 |
| In service | 31 August 1927 |
| Out of service | 9 October 1941 |
| Fate | Commissioned by the Northern Fleet |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Tovarishch Stalin |
| Operator | Northern Fleet |
| Commissioned | 9 October 1941 |
| Decommissioned | August 1945 |
| Reclassified | Liquid cargo barge, 1941 |
| Fate | Returned to the Murmansk Shipping Company |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Tovarishch Stalin |
| Operator | Murmansk Shipping Company |
| In service | August 1945 |
| Out of service | March 1954 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Tovarishch Stalin-class timber carrier (I series) |
| Tonnage | 3,610 t (3,550 long tons) DWT |
| Displacement | 5,280 t (5,200 long tons; 5,820 short tons) |
| Length | 85.0 m (278 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 13.1 m (43 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 5.8–5.9 m (19 ft 0 in – 19 ft 4 in) |
| Depth | 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power | 900 metric horsepower (890 ihp) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Range | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) |
| Capacity | 3,230 t (3,180 long tons; 3,560 short tons) |
| Crew | 32 |
SS Tovarishch Stalin (Russian: Товарищ Сталин, lit. 'Comrade Stalin') was a Soviet steamship, a class leader of the eponymous ship class of timber carriers. She was active in the Arctic during the 1930s.
SS Tovarishch Stalin and three other steamships—Mikhail Tomsky (Mironych after 1936), Grigory Zinoviev (Krasny Partizan after 1932), and Tovarishch Krasin (Altay after 1945)—were the I (first) series of Tovarishch Stalin-class timber carriers and first merchant ships built in the Soviet Union.