Pestel (ship, 1890)
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The Pestel ( Russian Пестель ) was a Russian and Soviet passenger ship that was sunk by a German submarine during World War II .
The ship
The ship was on the 1890 yard of Hawthorn Leslie and Company in Hebburn on Tyne , England , built and has been the August 1890 Name Veliky Knyaz Aleksej ( Grand Duke Alexei Co. &) to the Russian Steam Navigation Trading from Odessa delivered . The 1850-ton ship had a chimney and two masts. It served in passenger and freight traffic between the ports of the Black Sea .
fate
In 1917 the ship was requisitioned by the Imperial Russian Navy , converted into a mine ship and put into service under the name Alexej . After the end of the Russian Civil War and the fighting in the Crimea in November 1920, the ship was renamed Pestel by the Soviet government in memory of the Decembrist Pavel Ivanovich Pestel (1793-1826) and then used again in civil Black Sea shipping.
During the Second World War , the ship was the target of German submarine attacks at least twice. Around noon of March 23, 1943 shot U 19 near Sukhumi a fan of three torpedoes on several SKA-escort vehicles escorted Pestel and reported also a hit, but the Pestel was not hit. The escort boats then attacked the submarine with four depth charges , but without damaging it.
On June 19, 1944, Pestel was no longer so happy. On the journey from Trabzon in Turkey to Batumi , she was in the evening after leaving Trabzon at position 41 ° 3 ' N , 39 ° 42' E, of two Torpedoes of the submarine U 20 hit, broke in two and sank around 10:00 p.m. According to Soviet reports, the ship was sunk within Turkish territorial waters while the eight SKA patrol boats waiting to escort him were still waiting outside the territory. 48 survivors were rescued by them, while 18 men of the crew , including the captain, perished.
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Footnotes
- ↑ SKA = Storoschewoi Kater (guard cutter, patrol cutter)