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JAROSLAW

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:01 am

Built under yard No 200 as a iron hulled cargo ship by W.Cramp at Philadelphia for the Pacific Coast Steam-ship Co..San Francisco.
16 May 1878 launched under the name STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
Dim. 320 x 38 x 28ft

30 July 1878 bought by the Imperial Russian Government.
Rebuilt under yard No 202 by W.Cramp at Philadelphia as an auxiliary cruiser (Russian navy classed as a cruiser)
1881 Tonnage given as 3.160/3.196 ton, 2.001 ton (bm), dim. 307 x 37 x 15/17ft.
Powered by a steam engine of 350 nhp., 1.750 hp., speed 13 knots.
Armament 3 – 6 inch, 4 – 9 pdr., 4 Pahlkranz.
Crew 27 + 262.
03 May 1878 launched under the name EVROPA (EUROPA)?(one of the sources must be wrong)
02 Jan 1879 commissioned.
26 July 1885 renamed S/S YAROSLAV of the Russian Voluntary Fleet.
1 March 1890 transferred to Montenegro as gift to the Prince of Montenegro, renamed JAROSLAW. The Prince/King of Montenegro used the JAROSLAW mostly as a yacht.
31 July 1895, renamed again EVROPA.
01 Oct. 1900 training ship (torpedo school).
29 October 1909 transport vessel.
10 January 1917 submarine base, renamed BLOKSHIV No 10.
12 April 1918 seized by the Germans in Helsingfors (Helsinki).
04 June 1918 sunk at Helsingfors.
Thereafter salvaged and scrapped.

Montenegro 2010 0.25 Euro sg?, scott?
Russia 1995 250r sg6528, scott6258 (depict under the name EVROPA (EUROPA.)

Source: MARHST-L. Andreas von Mach. The New York Times of 17 May 1878.
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