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S/S POLARIS |
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Passenger steamer, one deck & spar deck |
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Passengers |
I: 80 |
II: 18 |
III: 167 |
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Ice class |
1 |
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Tonnages |
2,018 GRT |
1,150 NRT |
1,280 tdw |
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Length over all |
84.20 m |
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Breadth |
11.40 m |
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Draught |
6.30 m |
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Engine |
Triple steam engine 3 cy. by the shipbuilders. |
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Horse powers |
3,500 IHP |
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Speed |
13.5 knots |
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26.3.1899 |
Completed by Gourlay Bros. & Co., Dundee, as S/S Polaris for Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget, Helsinki. Sailed on Finland - Copenhagen - Hull line. |
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1914 |
Requisitioned by Russian Govt. |
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5.4.1915 |
Sold under compulsion to Russian Govt. and renamed S/S Kretchet. Handed over to the Russian Navy and served as an accommodation vessel for Navy staff in Helsinki. |
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11.4.1918 |
Sailed from Helsinki for Kronstadt a few days before the arrival of the German squadron. |
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1927 |
Allocated to Sovtorgflot, Black Sea Head Office, Odessa. |
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1934 |
Transferred to Sovtorgflot, Far Eastern Head Office, Vladivostok. |
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1935 |
Spelling of the name in Lloyd's Register changed to Krechet. |
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1941 |
Lying in Hongkong end of December, when Japanese troops invaded the Crown Territory. Sunk on Dec. 25 in a Japanese air attack on Hongkong. Wreck removed after the war and broken up. |
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Source: The Ships of Our First Century : The Effoa Fleet 1883-1983. Ed. by Matti Pietikäinen & Bengt Sjöström. Keuruu 1983, 231 p. ISBN 951-99438-5-4. |
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