Prussia (ship, 1909)

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The Prussians on an old postcard
Tourists on Prussia in 1937

The railway ferry Prussia was a Trajektschiff , which was used in service to Sweden.

After the conclusion of the contract of November 15, 1907 on the establishment of a railway ferry connection between the German Empire and Sweden , two ferries each were initially built by both states . In 1909 came on the German side on April 3, 1909 at the AG Vulcan Stettin from the stack gelaufenene Prussia and her sister ship Germany on the ferry line Sassnitz - Trelleborg , the so-called King line , are used.

Ferry traffic was maintained during the First World War. However, due to its enormous loading capacity of over 400 sea ​​mines , the ship was also used as an auxiliary mine ship by the Imperial Navy . On October 15, 1915, the German torpedo boat S 100 collided with the Prussia and 39 people lost their lives. After the repair, the Prussians resumed their service. On November 7, 1915, in conjunction with the torpedo boat V 154 , she rescued the survivors of the small cruiser SMS Undine torpedoed by the British submarine E19 .

The ship became known, especially in the Soviet Union, as a ship of philosophy when it brought 225 unpopular and well-known and therefore expatriated Soviet intellectuals from Petrograd to Stettin in November 1922 .

On December 10, 1937, the ship stranded in a snow storm off Stubbenkammer (island of Rügen ). The damaged vessel could only be recovered at the end of the year. Another repair was carried out at the Stettiner Oderwerke in Stettin-Grabow.

During the Second World War , passenger ferry traffic with Sweden could be maintained until June 1943. With one last ferry trip on September 26, 1944, ferry traffic was finally stopped. The Prussians were requisitioned by the Navy and used as a transporter for troops and wounded on the Baltic Sea until the end of the war . After the war it was delivered to the USSR as a reparation payment and used there under the name Kriljon . From 1975 she was used under the name Morskaja I as a residential ship for the construction of the port of Vostochny (near Nakhodka on the Sea of ​​Japan ) and was still in existence in 1985.

Technical specifications

  • Type: Steam Ferry
  • Displacement : 4,200 tons
  • Length / width / draft: 113.80 m / 16.26 m / 5.20 m
  • Drive: steam engine with 5000 HP (3,675 kW )
  • Speed: 15.5 knots (approx. 28 km / h)
  • Capacity: 2 standard gauge railway tracks with a total length of 172 m for 8 express train cars or 16 to 18 freight cars (size of the design at the time)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pictures and history of Крильон (SS Preussen ) (Russian)
  2. ↑ http://www.kruiznik.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=894

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