POBEDA passenger ship 1928
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:45 pm
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 1199 by F. Schichau, Danzig for the Hamburg America Line at Hamburg.
23 August 1928 launched as the MAGDALENA, one sister the ORINOCO.
Tonnage 9,779 grt, 5,483 nrt, 5,296 dwt, dim. 153.0 x 18.5 m, length bpp. 140.4m.
Powered by two 8-cyl. single acting diesel engines, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 6,800 hp, twin screws, speed 15 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 137 first class, 102 in second class and 106 third class and 188 crew.
14 December 1928 completed, homeport Hamburg.
Originally built with two funnels.
She was built for the service between Northern Europe and Central America.
December 1928 maiden voyage from Hamburg to Puerto Limon.
08 February 1934 she grounded on a voyage from Puerto Cabello to Willemstad off Curacao.
The passengers were taken from board by the Dutch gunboat HMS JOHAN MAURITS OF NASSAU and taken to Willemstad.
28 May 1934 was the MAGDALENA refloated by the salvage tug SEEFALKE (sea hawk) and she was towed to the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg for repair.
She got a new bow extension with a length of 10 meters, and one funnel was removed.
Passenger accommodation altered to 168 first class, 80 tourist class and 110 in third class.
Tonnage 9,829 grt, length bpp. 148.1m.
02 February 1935 after her repair renamed IBERIA and put in the service between Hamburg via Cuba to Mexico a 1 monthly service.
1940 Was she used as an accommodation ship by the German Navy and then as a U-boat depot ship at Gotenhafen.
After the war was she used for a short time by the Royal Navy as an accommodation ship at Kiel.
18 February 1946 handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparation.
After a refit at the Mathias Thesen Werft, Wismar she was renamed POBEDA, with homeport Odessa.
Used in the Black Sea from Odessa to the Crimea and Caucasus ports.
Was later also used in the service from the Black Sea to North America.
01 September 1984 on a voyage from New York via Alexandria and Batumi to Odessa when in a position south of the Crimea a fire broke out on board in which 42 persons died.
The contact with the ship was partly lost; when rescue teams arrived the fire was brought under control and extinguished.
Under her own power she could proceed to her destination.
Two crewmembers died and 40 passengers including 19 women and 15 children, under the passengers who died were the Chinese General Feng Yuxiang and one of his daughters.
20 October 1950 POBEDA was modernized at the Wismar repair yard.
Tonnage then given as 9,828 grt, 5,474 nrt, 5,295 dwt and her passenger accommodation was given as 150 deck passengers and 432 cabin passengers.
14 May 1952 after the repair was completed sailed for the Black Sea.
1962 Used as a transport by the return of the Russian troops stationed in Cuba to the Soviet Union.
Thereafter used in the liner service in the Black Sea till taken out of service in 1977.
First quarter of 1978 scrapped at Gadani Beach, Pakistan.
Russian Postal Stationary Covers, scans supplied with thanks by Mr Gennadiy Sitnikov.
Source: Soviet Passenger ships 1917-1977 by E.A. Wilson. Merchant Fleets in profile 4 by Duncan Haws. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobeda_(1928)
23 August 1928 launched as the MAGDALENA, one sister the ORINOCO.
Tonnage 9,779 grt, 5,483 nrt, 5,296 dwt, dim. 153.0 x 18.5 m, length bpp. 140.4m.
Powered by two 8-cyl. single acting diesel engines, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 6,800 hp, twin screws, speed 15 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 137 first class, 102 in second class and 106 third class and 188 crew.
14 December 1928 completed, homeport Hamburg.
Originally built with two funnels.
She was built for the service between Northern Europe and Central America.
December 1928 maiden voyage from Hamburg to Puerto Limon.
08 February 1934 she grounded on a voyage from Puerto Cabello to Willemstad off Curacao.
The passengers were taken from board by the Dutch gunboat HMS JOHAN MAURITS OF NASSAU and taken to Willemstad.
28 May 1934 was the MAGDALENA refloated by the salvage tug SEEFALKE (sea hawk) and she was towed to the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg for repair.
She got a new bow extension with a length of 10 meters, and one funnel was removed.
Passenger accommodation altered to 168 first class, 80 tourist class and 110 in third class.
Tonnage 9,829 grt, length bpp. 148.1m.
02 February 1935 after her repair renamed IBERIA and put in the service between Hamburg via Cuba to Mexico a 1 monthly service.
1940 Was she used as an accommodation ship by the German Navy and then as a U-boat depot ship at Gotenhafen.
After the war was she used for a short time by the Royal Navy as an accommodation ship at Kiel.
18 February 1946 handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparation.
After a refit at the Mathias Thesen Werft, Wismar she was renamed POBEDA, with homeport Odessa.
Used in the Black Sea from Odessa to the Crimea and Caucasus ports.
Was later also used in the service from the Black Sea to North America.
01 September 1984 on a voyage from New York via Alexandria and Batumi to Odessa when in a position south of the Crimea a fire broke out on board in which 42 persons died.
The contact with the ship was partly lost; when rescue teams arrived the fire was brought under control and extinguished.
Under her own power she could proceed to her destination.
Two crewmembers died and 40 passengers including 19 women and 15 children, under the passengers who died were the Chinese General Feng Yuxiang and one of his daughters.
20 October 1950 POBEDA was modernized at the Wismar repair yard.
Tonnage then given as 9,828 grt, 5,474 nrt, 5,295 dwt and her passenger accommodation was given as 150 deck passengers and 432 cabin passengers.
14 May 1952 after the repair was completed sailed for the Black Sea.
1962 Used as a transport by the return of the Russian troops stationed in Cuba to the Soviet Union.
Thereafter used in the liner service in the Black Sea till taken out of service in 1977.
First quarter of 1978 scrapped at Gadani Beach, Pakistan.
Russian Postal Stationary Covers, scans supplied with thanks by Mr Gennadiy Sitnikov.
Source: Soviet Passenger ships 1917-1977 by E.A. Wilson. Merchant Fleets in profile 4 by Duncan Haws. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobeda_(1928)