Baltika (ship)
 The Baltika on the Leningrad-London passenger route
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The Baltika was a Soviet cruise liner of the Baltic shipping company and was launched in 1940 as the liner Vyachestav Molotov (Russian Вячеслав Молотов) at the NV Nederlandsche Dok & Scheepsbouw Maats shipyard. built in Amsterdam ( Netherlands ) for the Baltic State Shipping Company in Leningrad (Soviet Union) . It belongs to the Iosif Stalin class , which was named after the type ship Iosif Stalin .
description
The seven-deck ship of the line under hull number 276 was built in 1940 in the Netherlands for the Soviet Union for the Leningrad - Helsingfors - Stockholm - London line. It belongs to a series of two Iosif Stalin -class ships manufactured between 1938 and 1940 , which according to the plan had been ordered for regular services in the Soviet Far East, but were delivered to Leningrad because of the outbreak of the Second World War. A short time after the delivery, Vyachestav Molotov was given the designation VT-509 , (ВТ-509, военный транспорт № 509) as a transport ship . On August 11, 1941, during the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn , the VT-509 was partially damaged by a mine on the way from Tallinn to Kronstadt , but was able to continue on its way. During the Leningrad blockade , the ship served as a hospital ship, power station, laundry for the city and troops, as well as a workshop and production hall for the manufacture of rockets for the Stalin organ .
After the war the ship was repaired, but could not be used on the planned route Leningrad - Liverpool - New York due to numerous defects . The subsequent repairs of the Vyachestav Molotov in Liverpool and Amsterdam resulted in the ship being moved to the Black Sea, where it operated until 1950, and then until 1955 in the Far East, as was planned at the beginning before construction. In 1955 Vyachestav Molotov returned to the Black Sea, and after Vyacheslav Molotov lost his ministerial office, Vyachestav Molotov was renamed Baltika .
In 1960, the Baltika brought the Soviet head of state and party leader Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev and Todor Schiwkow (Bulgaria), János Kádár (Hungary) and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Romania) from the Soviet military port of Pillau (Baltijsk) to New York, where Khrushchev is known worldwide Had given speech. During the Cuban Missile Crisis , the Soviet passenger ships under the civil USSR flag were used as transport ships in top secret. While the smaller Estoniya brought the entire motorized rifle regiment of Dmitri Yasov to Cuba , the Baltika carried part of the 51st missile division without R-12 missiles (the Omsk was responsible for that). In the following years, the Baltika was modernized several times in the west and operated as a cruise ship by the Baltic shipping company in Leningrad.
In 1980 Baltika served as a hotel ship in Tallinn at the 1980 Olympic Regatta . On March 28, 1987, the Baltika reached the scrapping yards near Gadani in Pakistan , where it was scrapped.
Furnishing
On board was the Penguin restaurant, known for its Russian dishes .
See also
Web links
- The story of the ship (English)
- С премьером через океан (Russian)
Footnotes
- ↑ Callsign, IMO number, last known flag and picture of Robert J Smith's ship on shipspotting.com
- ↑ a b c d e f Регистровая книга морских судов СССР 1964-1965 - Register Book of Sea-going Ships of the USSR ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF, p. 112 (Russian)
- ↑ a b c d Fakta om fartyg (Swedish)
- ↑ http://www.blackseatrans.com When the guides are on board (Russian); the page disappeared
- ↑ In Memory an ... ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)
- ↑ Soviet fleet in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Russian)
- ↑ Baltika, photo by Michael Neidig
