Cooperatzia

fred henderson · Jan 30, 2008

Do you have any information on this ship Dick? With 3 lifeboats on the starboard superstructure she must have been a passenger ship, but as she seems to be rather small may be a ferry.
Pending more information I have moved her to the Passenger Ship gallery.

Regards

Fred

stan mayes · Jan 30, 2008

COOPERATZIA - SIBIR - SMOLNI - URAL were Russian sisterships.
The first two were on Leningrad - London service prewar [Surrey Commercial Docks]..They were all built in 1929..
I often saw them in the river..Thier engines were always noisy and smoke rings were emitted from thier funnels..
It seems the photo is in London River with sailing barges on 'Starvation Buoys' North Woolwich..
Stan.

DICK SLOAN · Jan 30, 2008

Thanks Stan for the info, and Fred a little more info,
Soviet motorship 3,767 tons gross.
Built at Leningrad, formerly Petrograd originally St.Petersburg,
Length 332ft 6in.
Beam of 48ft
Moulded depth of 27ft 9in.
Her two-stroke single-acting six cylinder diesels were built by the Russian Diesel Works, Leningrad.
Passenger Cargo.

fred henderson · Jan 30, 2008

Thank you gentlemen. Unless anyone objects, I think we can leave her in passenger ships.

Fred

michealjcasey · Mar 14, 2019

Definitely a passenger ship - carried the British and Irish delegations of the "Friends of Soviet Russia" from Russia to Leningrad, left London 22 April 1931

Cooperatzia

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