Kooperatsiya

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The 40k. stamp shows a vessel with the name Cooperatzia on her bows but the only ship bearing this name mentioned in Lloyd's Register is one built at the Severney Shipbuilding Yard in 1929. This ship was often in London before the war and in the post-war period was on service between Rotterdam and Riga. I have some doubts however about her being the vessel on the stamp, which would appear to be a later ship, though she may have undergone alterations to her structure. The caption above the illustration of the vessel gives her service as Murmansk-Tyksi.
SG2329 Sea Breezes May 1960

[aukepalmhof]

Built as a cargo-passenger vessel under yard No 307 by the Severney yard at Leningrad for the Russian Government.
Launched under the name KOOPERATSIA by Lloyds given as COOPERATZIA, have seen also KOOPERATSIYA, five sisterships.
Tonnage 3.767 gross, 2.164 net, dim. 332.5 x 48 x 25.6ft., length bpp. 324.6ft.
One 6-cyl. Russki diesel, 1.900 hp., one screw, speed 12 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 300 passengers.
1929 Delivered to owners.
Port of registry Leningrad.

She was built original for the liner service between Leningrad/Northern European and London.
Later in the service from Murmansk to Tyksi. Registry port Murmansk.
1958 New engines.
1969 Used as supply ship in the Antarctic.
1981 Reported converted in an accommodation ship renamed DELTA.
Broken up by Detel Gemi Sokum, Aliaga, Turkey, where she arrived on 02 November 1987.

Source: register of Merchant ships completed in 1929. Soviet Passenger Ships 1917-1977 by E.A. Wilson.
CD-ROM Ships on Stamps. Navicula. Soviet Merchant Ships by A. Greenway.