Volodarsky (ship)
Volodarsky, a pre–World War II photo | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Soviet Union | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | V. Volodarsky |
| Operator | Murmansk Shipping Company |
| Builder | Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad |
| Laid down | 1927 |
| Launched | November 1928 |
| In service | 1929 |
| Out of service | August 1941 |
| Fate | Commissioned by the Northern Fleet |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Volodarsky |
| Operator | Northern Fleet |
| Commissioned | August 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 1945 |
| Reclassified | Liquid cargo barge, October 1941 |
| Fate | Returned to the Murmansk Shipping Company |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Volodarsky |
| Operator | Murmansk Shipping Company |
| In service | 1945 |
| Out of service | 26 December 1991 |
| Reclassified |
|
| Fate | Transferred to Russia |
| Russia | |
| Name | Volodarsky |
| Operator | Murmansk Shipping Company |
| In service | 26 December 1991 |
| Out of service | 1998 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5383407 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 2014 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Tovarishch Stalin-class timber carrier (III series) |
| Tonnage | 3,760 t (3,700 long tons) DWT |
| Displacement | 5,520 t (5,430 long tons; 6,080 short tons) |
| Length | 91.3 m (299 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 13.1 m (43 ft 0 in) |
| Depth | 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power | 950 metric horsepower (940 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 | 3,472 t (3,417 long tons; 3,827 short tons) |
| Crew | 32 |
SS Volodarsky (Russian: Володарский) was a Soviet steamship, a timber carrier of the III series of Tovarishch Stalin-class ships, which was active in the Arctic during the 1930s and was later the oldest ship in the Murmansk Shipping Company fleet.
The ship was laid down as Tovarishch Volodarsky (Russian: Товарищ Володарский, lit. 'Comrade Volodarsky') but was renamed during building. She was named after V. Volodarsky (real name Moisey Markovich Goldshteyn), a Russian revolutionary and an early Soviet politician.