Built as a tanker under yard No. 291 by Stocznia Gdanska, Gdansk for the Polish Ocean Lines.
18 June 1960 launched under the name PROFESOR HUBER.
Tonnage 12.588/13.383 gross, 6.642/7.626 net, 17.902/19.088 dwt. Dim. 176.94 x21.90 x 8.9m. (draught).
Powered by one 6-cyl Sulzer Cegielski diesel engine, 9.600 bhp[, speed 15 knots.
Before delivery sold to the Russian Government (Sudoimport) and renamed BAUSKA, given in Stanley Gibbons, Collect Ships on Stamps as BAVSK.
30 June 1961 delivered to owners.
She was the proto-type of the B-70 tankers built on this yard.
Sold by U.S.S.R-Latvian Shipping Co to Chinese shipbreakers and she arrived 26 February 1986 at Huangpu, China.
Poland 1961 5z60 sg 1236, scott 990
Source: Marine News 1987/301. Register of merchant ships completed in 1961. Soviet Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway.