The intention was to built her as a sealer, and I am not sure she was used as so.
Building commenced in 1916 at Onega in the White Sea, Russia for account of a Siberian industrialist
Launched as PERSEY (perseus).
She was later towed to Arkhangelsk where she was in 1922 completed as a research vessel, after Norwegian drawings and plans.
Displacement 550 ton, dim. 41.5 x 8.0 x 3.2m.
Powered by a triple expansion steam engine, 360 hp. one shaft speed 7.5 knots.
Crew 24 and expedition personnel 16.
07 November 1922 the flag of the Russian Federation was raised
She was the first Russian research vessel.
01 February 1923 she got her own flag, a blue pennant with the seven stars of the constellation Perseus, which also became the Soviet emblem for the Russian research institutes of the fishing industry.
19 August 1923 she sailed out for her first scientific voyage.
Altogether she made 80 or 99 (various sources) scientific expeditions in the Northern Seas, Barents and Kara Sea, Greenland waters and off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land, Jan Mayen and Svalbard.
Took part in the search for the members of Umberto Nobile second Arctic expedition.
During her lifetime the PERSY was also used as a school ship for many prominent Russian scientists oceanographers.
During World War II she was sunk on 10 July 1941 by a attack of German planes in the Kola Bay ( also named Murmansk Fjord)
Russian envelope 1979 and Romania 2010.
Source: Gennadiy Sitnikov http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0% ... %BD%D0%BE)
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