SIMBIRSK
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:39 pm
The stamp depict a passenger vessel with two funnels, at that time (1922) there was only one passenger ship under Russian flag the SIMBIRSK what carried two stacks, most probably this ship is depict on the stamp. A photo of the ship compared with the stamp looks almost the same.
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 832 by F Schichau at Danzig for the Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Vladivostok.
Launched as the SIMBIRSK.
Tonnage 2,713 grt, 1.356 net, dim. 311.1 x 41.5 x 28.2ft (draught).
Powered by a 3-cyl triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by F. Schichau, Elbing, 584 nhp., speed 16 knots.
September 1909 completed.
She was built for the passenger-cargo service between Vladivostok and Tzuruga, Japan.
During May 1920 the vessel was brought to Kobe by the White Russian, where she was interned.
The mostly Red Russian crew then refused to follow the orders of the White Russian authorities in Japan, to sail the ship to Sevastopol.
Laid up in Kobe till January 1923, where after she sailed back to Vladivostok.
07 September 1923 (after the stamp was issued) renamed in LENIN.
She made a voyage from Vladivostok to Nagasaki, Japan with a cargo much needed by the victims of an earthquake there, but the Japanese Authorities refused the cargo and she returned back to Vladivostok.
Then she was moved to the Black Sea, with homeport Odessa and managed by the Black Sea-Azov Shipping Co. Used in the service between Odessa and Novorossiysk.
1924 Managed by A/O Sovtorgflot, Odessa.
When war broke out between Germany and the USSR the LENIN made one voyage from Odessa to Mariupol with as cargo of sugar and evacuating refugees in July 1941.
Then she returned back to Odessa to load an other cargo.
Many passengers embarked there, now body knows exactly how many had boarded but the estimates are that she carried around 4000 passengers when she left Odessa on 24 July 1941 at 22.00 hours under command of Captain Ivan Semyonovich.
She was command ship of a convoy of merchant ships, during the voyage the VOROSHILOV got engine problems and LENIN towed her to Sevastopol.
27 July she left Sevastopol for Yalta.
27 July 1941 at 23.33 most probably she hit a Russian mine and sank within 7/10 minutes, only 600 passengers and 43 crew were rescued.
Source: Soviet Passenger Ships 1917 – 1977 by E.A. Wilson. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
http://www.blackseadiving.ru/divesites. ... vesited=10 Register of Merchant ships completed in 1909.
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 832 by F Schichau at Danzig for the Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Vladivostok.
Launched as the SIMBIRSK.
Tonnage 2,713 grt, 1.356 net, dim. 311.1 x 41.5 x 28.2ft (draught).
Powered by a 3-cyl triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by F. Schichau, Elbing, 584 nhp., speed 16 knots.
September 1909 completed.
She was built for the passenger-cargo service between Vladivostok and Tzuruga, Japan.
During May 1920 the vessel was brought to Kobe by the White Russian, where she was interned.
The mostly Red Russian crew then refused to follow the orders of the White Russian authorities in Japan, to sail the ship to Sevastopol.
Laid up in Kobe till January 1923, where after she sailed back to Vladivostok.
07 September 1923 (after the stamp was issued) renamed in LENIN.
She made a voyage from Vladivostok to Nagasaki, Japan with a cargo much needed by the victims of an earthquake there, but the Japanese Authorities refused the cargo and she returned back to Vladivostok.
Then she was moved to the Black Sea, with homeport Odessa and managed by the Black Sea-Azov Shipping Co. Used in the service between Odessa and Novorossiysk.
1924 Managed by A/O Sovtorgflot, Odessa.
When war broke out between Germany and the USSR the LENIN made one voyage from Odessa to Mariupol with as cargo of sugar and evacuating refugees in July 1941.
Then she returned back to Odessa to load an other cargo.
Many passengers embarked there, now body knows exactly how many had boarded but the estimates are that she carried around 4000 passengers when she left Odessa on 24 July 1941 at 22.00 hours under command of Captain Ivan Semyonovich.
She was command ship of a convoy of merchant ships, during the voyage the VOROSHILOV got engine problems and LENIN towed her to Sevastopol.
27 July she left Sevastopol for Yalta.
27 July 1941 at 23.33 most probably she hit a Russian mine and sank within 7/10 minutes, only 600 passengers and 43 crew were rescued.
Source: Soviet Passenger Ships 1917 – 1977 by E.A. Wilson. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
http://www.blackseadiving.ru/divesites. ... vesited=10 Register of Merchant ships completed in 1909.