Rugard (ship, 1927)
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The Rugard was a German passenger steamship . After the Second World War , she sailed under the Soviet flag as Ilya Repin .
history
Seaside bathing service
The Rugard , built on the Stettiner Oderwerke with shipyard number 730, was put into service in June 1927 by the Stettiner Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft JF Braeunlich as their last new building. The shipping company used the steamship in the seaside resort service between Stettin and the island of Rügen , where Binz and Saßnitz were preferred. In addition, the Rugard also made trips on the Stettin – Rügen – Bornholm line and to Copenhagen .
Navy
The German Navy captured the Rugard in September 1939 and armed it with two 8.8 cm SK and machine guns for aircraft defense. First she became the flagship of the leader of the minesweepers East (FdM Ost) and later of the commander of the security of the Baltic Sea . From 1942 she was used as a supply ship for the 31st minesweeping flotilla. In 1943 she accompanied small offensive miners in the Kronstadt Bay. Most recently, Rugard acted as the leader of the 9th Security Division .
The Rugard left the Hela peninsula on May 8, 1945 as the last ship of the Navy with around 1,500 refugees on board . On May 9, the crew of the Rugard fought off an attempted riot by three Soviet speedboats in a firefight. The ship reached the Kiel Fjord on the morning of May 10th .
Soviet spoils of war
In 1946 the Rugard was delivered to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment . From September to October 1946, the ship, renamed Ilja Repin , was overhauled at the repair yard in Wismar . Leningrad became the new home port . From January to November 1950 the Ilja Repin was again in the Wismar shipyard, where she was converted into a passenger ship for the Northern Arctic Ocean . With her home port of Murmansk , she was in service under the Soviet flag until around 1959. It was deleted from Lloyd's Register of Shipping in 1960.
technology
The Rugard was equipped with two triple expansion steam engines with a total output of 2,000 hp. During the conversion in 1950, the speed was reduced, which reduced the power to around 1,500 hp and the service speed from 15 to 11.2 knots . The measurement given in 1927 as 1,358 GRT was increased to 1,549 GRT in 1950.
As a seaside resort ship , the Rugard was designed for 1,170 passengers on the open sea and 1,852 passengers when sailing in the Stettiner Haff . After the renovation in 1950, 189 passengers and 92 fur hunters could be accommodated in cabins. The crew was increased from the original 56 to 64.
Individual evidence
literature
- Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939. In: Library of Ship Types. transpress publishing house for traffic, Berlin 1989, pp. 136-137, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 .
Web links
- The rugard . In: Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved October 8, 2009 .