MS Ukraina
| History | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Name | Ukraina |
| Owner | Black Sea State Shipping Company |
| Port of registry | Odessa, Soviet Union |
| Builder | Leningrad |
| Completed | 1928 |
| In service | 1928 |
| Fate | Sunk by German aircraft, 2 July 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Krim-class cargo liner |
| Tonnage |
|
| Displacement | 5,770 deep load ) |
| Length | 112.15 m (367 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 15.55 m (51 ft) |
| Draught | 5.95 m (19 ft 6 in) |
| Depth | 7.7 m (25.3 ft) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 3,900 kW ) |
| Propulsion | 2 screw propellers; 2 diesel engines |
| Speed | 12.6 knots (23.3 km/h; 14.5 mph) |
| Capacity | 518 passengers |
MS Ukraina was one of six
Siege of Odessa in 1941 and the Siege of Sevastopol
in 1942. She was sunk by German aircraft in July.
Description
The four ships built in
nominal horsepower.[2] Sources differ about her maximum speed, quoting speeds of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)[1] or 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).[3] The ship had a designed capacity of 450 passengers.[3]
Construction and career
Ukraina was one of the four ships in the class that were constructed in 1928 at the
After the invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) by Nazi Germany and its allies, Ukraina was used for military tasks. The ship arrived in Odessa on 14 October to begin loading the city's defenders and reached Sevastopol on the 16th without damage despite repeated German air attacks.[4]
Ukraina was sunk by German bombers of the First Group of Bomber Wing 76 (I./Kampfgeschwader 76) in Novorossiysk harbour on 2 July 1942.[5]
References
Bibliography
- Budzbon, Przemysław; Radziemski, Jan & Twardowski, Marek (2022). Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939–1945. Vol. III: Naval Auxiliaries. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3990-2281-1.
- Jordan, Roger W. (1999). The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 ships. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-023-X.
- ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Wilson, Edward A. (1978). Soviet Passenger Ships, 1917–1977. Kendal, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-04-5.
