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NADEZHDA

Post by shipstamps » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:31 pm


2006 Bulgaria issued a 0.55 lev stamp for the 125 Anniversary of the Navy University “Wapzarov”.

She was built as a torpedo gunboat under yard No 13 by Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde in Bordeaux, France for the Bulgarian Navy.
21 September 1898 launched under the name NADEZHDA, what means hope.
Displacement 715 ton.
Powered by two steam-engines, 2.600 ihp, twin screws, speed 18 knots.
Bunker capacity 110 ton coal.
Armament 2 – 3.9 inch, 2 – 9pdr., 2 – 3pdr. guns, 2 – torpedo tubes.
Ram type bow.
Crew 97.
22 October 1998 commissioned.

She was built when the European yards and designers of the important torpedo boats were involved in an increasing competition where every knots increase in speed counted.
The NADEZHDA was sometimes used as a Royal Yacht by the King of Bulgaria and his family, and she was certainly modified for extra accommodation, and the deckhouse aft was probably similar in function to the kind of pavilion saloon erected on royal yachts in the nineteenth century. Maybe in use as a dining saloon or lounge.
As Royal Yacht was she used in the Black Sea.

August 1912 grounded at Anchalio, but was refloated and repaired.
16 September 1918 arrived at Sevastopol, Russia for repairs, which never were completed.
15 December 1918 revolution in Sevastopol, and she was seized by the Red Russian Forces on 15 November 1920.
02 December 1920 used as block ship.
June 1921 decommissioned.
27 September 1924 commenced scrapping.

On Bulgaria 2006 0.55ley sg?, scott?

Source: info received from Mr. Andreas von Mach. Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905.
Royal Yachts of Europe by Reginald Crabtree.

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