Steamer Tovarishch Stalin

History
Soviet Union
NameTovarishch Stalin
NamesakeJoseph Stalin
Operator
BuilderBaltic Shipyard, Leningrad
Laid down24 January 1925
Launched25 October 1925
In service31 August 1927
Out of service9 October 1941
FateCommissioned by the Northern Fleet
Soviet Union
NameTovarishch Stalin
Operator Northern Fleet
Commissioned9 October 1941
DecommissionedAugust 1945
ReclassifiedLiquid cargo barge, 1941
FateReturned to the Murmansk Shipping Company
Soviet Union
NameTovarishch Stalin
Operator Murmansk Shipping Company
In serviceAugust 1945
Out of serviceMarch 1954
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Class & typeTovarishch Stalin-class timber carrier (I series)
Tonnage3,610 t (3,550 long tons) DWT
Displacement5,280 t (5,200 long tons; 5,820 short tons)
Length85.0 m (278 ft 10 in)
Beam13.1 m (43 ft 0 in)
Draft5.8–5.9 m (19 ft 0 in – 19 ft 4 in)
Depth6.9 m (22 ft 8 in)
Installed power900 metric horsepower (890 ihp)
Propulsion
Speedkn (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Range2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi)
Capacity3,230 t (3,180 long tons; 3,560 short tons)
Crew32

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.