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Boksirni Typlokod
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:34 pm
by john sefton
BOKSIRNI TYPLOKOD, a Volga River tug, built by the Sormovsky Machine & Engineering Works, at Voloshaya. No furthur details known to me.
E W Argyle Log Book May 1972
Russia, 1949, 40k, SG1493
Re: Boksirni Typlokod
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:39 am
by aukepalmhof
Update, additional info received from Mr. Sitnikov. Also a stamp not yet given in Stanley Gibbons Collect Ships on Stamps.
.According Mr. Sitnikov the vessel depict on the Russian stamp issued in 1949 with the inscription BOKSIRNI TYPIOKOD what is not a ships-name but he say it means “tug boat”.
The tugs belong to the Project 10, type Krasnoye Sormovo and were built by the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod).
More than 125 units of this class have been built from circa 1948 until 1954.
The first built in circa 1948 as the A. PARKHOMENKO.
Tonnage 319 ton, dim. 40.26 x 7.82 x 3.00m, draught 2.08m.
Powered by two MDG diesel engines, each 300 hp. Later types got a little stronger engine 2 – 323 hp.
Twin screws
Ice strengthened. She were fitted out with a heavy stern anchor which could by heave up by the towing winch.
Accommodation for 25 persons.
Endurance, 10 days.
After completed delivered to Volgatanker at Astrakhan, later transferred to West Siberian River Shipping Company at Novosibirsk., Siberia
Homeport Tomsk
This class of tugs most have been already written off, but there are two still around, POLENOV seen on the photo still in service, but looks worn out and the VERSTOVSKIY as a yard tug at the Krasnoye Sormovo yard for moving around the ships built there or under repair.
The photo shows one of this class of tugs and the other photo POLENOV one of this class so she looks in 2011.
Russia 1949 40k sg1493, scott1364
Russia 1951 30k sg?, scott? One of this type is depict in the Volga Don Canal and shows also a chart of the canal and its irrigation canals between Rostov and Stalingrad (now Volgograd)