Rügen (ship, 1914)

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Ship data
flag German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire Soviet Union
Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union 
Ship type Passenger ship
home port Szczecin
Shipyard Stettiner Oderwerke
Build number 644
Launch February 21, 1914
Commissioning May 20, 1914
Removal from the ship register around 1960
Ship dimensions and crew
length
95.2 m ( Lüa )
89.7 m ( Lpp )
width 11.6 m
Draft Max. 4.2 m
measurement 2,170 GRT
 
crew 45 men
Machine system
machine 2 compound machines
Machine
performance 		3,100 PS (2,280 kW)
Top
speed 		15 kn (28 km / h)
propeller 2
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 2,500

The Rügen was a German passenger steamship . After the Second World War she sailed under the Soviet flag as Ivan Susanin .

history

The Rügen built on the Stettiner Oderwerke with the shipyard number 644 was put into service on May 20, 1914 by the Stettiner steamship company JF Braeunlich . It was used in the liner service between Szczecin and Swinoujscie as well as to the seaside resorts on the east coast of Rügen . However, there were only a few trips before the Imperial Navy captured the steamship on November 21, 1914 and put it into service as an auxiliary mine ship . After the First World War , the shipping company initially got its ship back, but had to deliver it to Great Britain on March 14, 1919 . The ship stayed in Stettin and the shipping company was able to buy it back on April 17, 1919 from the Shipping Controller, London . The Stettin-Rigaer Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft (RC Gribel) took over the Rügen in 1921 and had renovations carried out. Especially in the summer months she was used in passenger service between Stettin and Helsingfors as well as the Baltic States .

During and until after the Second World War , the ship served the German Navy as a hospital ship with around 240 beds from September 25, 1939 to September 30, 1945 in the North Station (from 1942 the East Station) .

The Rügen was delivered to the Soviet Union on March 11, 1946 as a reparation payment . Renamed Ivan Susanin , it was converted into a motor ship from June to December 1946 at the Wismar ship repair yard . At the end of the year she sailed towards the Black Sea , where she served as a training ship until she was deleted from Lloyd's Register of Shipping around 1960 .

technology

Two triple expansion steam engines with a combined output of 3,100 hp drove two propellers . The ship thus reached a speed of 15  kn . The Rügen was the only steamer with its home port in Stettin to have two chimneys. The crew consisted of 45 men. Up to 2,500 passengers could be accommodated.

literature

  • Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939. In: Library of Ship Types. transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 , pp. 114–116.

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