NIKOLAI BAUMAN 1924 1779 tgr U.S.S.R.
B/as CHARLOTTE CORDS- Ger
45-EMPIRE CONNAH
46-NIKOLAI BAUMAN
Del 1969-Last report 1960.
I took this in the Greenland Dock-Surrey Grp 1960.
Additional details from SN member treeve, for which many thanks.;
NICOLAJJ BAUMAN - Николай Бауман
Built 1923 Neptun AG, Rostock
as CHARLOTTE CORDS
For August Cords, Rostock
ON 180692
1779 grt; 266ft x 40 ft
1923 August Cords, Rostock; Registered Hamburg
13th August 1945 Seized by the Allies at Travemunde.
Still named CHARLOTTE CORDS 20th - 26th August 1945
1945 Renamed EMPIRE CONNAH, MOWT.
1946 Awarded to Russia; Renamed NICOLAJJ BAUMAN.
1957 Collision with coaster CORALE The Story of the loss of the CORALE
1961 Murmansk Shipping Company operated her as a nuclear service vessel;
1964 Steamer NIKOLAJJ BAUMAN was scuttled, with solid radioactive waste aboard, in Tsivolki Bay at the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago.
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