At the request of the Soviet merchant navy, the Polish shipyard Stocznia Szczecińska im. Adolfa Warskiego submitted the draft for export to the Soviet Union at the end of the 1960s. The type should serve the practical officer training and was also intended as a cargo ship. Nine ships went to the Soviet Union, where they were given the names of professors. After the type ship, it was also referred to as the "Professor Shchegolev Class" or, for short, the "Professors Class". Since the type proved to be successful, two more ships followed for Poland and one each for Romania and Bulgaria . Only the GDR did not adopt the type, as they operated the training on large combi freighters. Due to the further development during construction, the series was divided into six series, which mainly differed in terms of different engines, but also different capacities for cadets .
The basic type of class B-80 corresponded to a combined ship . The ships were 122.1 meters long, 17.0 meters wide and had a draft of 7.4 meters. The measurement was 5975 GRT and 2327 NRT with a load capacity of 5510 tdw . The drive consisted of a diesel engine of different models, the factory Jugoturbina in Karlovac in license produced CCM Sulzer model "6RD56" the Sulzer model produced at Cegielski under license "5RD68" and the Polish model "7D55". The 5500 hp two-stroke engine worked on a screw . The ship reached a speed of up to 16.0 knots and had a range of around 8,000 nautical miles. For freight transport, two of the holds were in front of the bridge and a smaller one behind the living and teaching area at the stern. Together they had a bale volume of 5194 cubic meters and a bulk material volume of 5553 cubic meters. The freezer room was designed for a temperature of −18 degrees Celsius and had a size of 312 cubic meters.
Training ship equipment
For the officer training of the merchant navy, emphasis was placed on the most modern equipment of the time during the construction of the ships, but also on the practical learning of skills by the cadets. In addition to the crew of 48 men, the ships offered space for 15 lecturers and 112 cadets, a total of around 170 people. Only the Romanian Neptune was designed for 180 people.
Important devices such as machine control stations or radar devices were installed twice as training ships. In addition to the devices required for navigating the ship, the students were able to learn to operate the technology on simultaneous devices without affecting actual operations. The equipment at that time included modern devices such as a satellite navigation system, radio location systems, an automated machine room, a power plant and other devices. They could be used for teaching on a double bridge and in a navigation cabin. For the practical training, the ships had extensive loading gear : It consisted of two light cargo booms with a load capacity of 5 tons, another with a load capacity of 10 tons and a heavy duty boom of 30 tons and a loading crane of 5 tons at the stern. The ships earned money with the freight transport and at the same time gave the students the opportunity to practice stevedoring and loading.
The ships
Stocznia Szczecińska B-80
Building name
Build number
IMO number
delivery
Operator / trainer
Renaming and whereabouts
Professor Shchegolev
B80-I / 01
7024445
20th July 1970
Baltic Shipping Company / Makarov State University of Sea and River Fleet, Leningrad
Bruno Bock, Klaus Bock: The red merchant fleets. The merchant ships of the COMECON countries , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977, ISBN 3-7822-0143-4 .
Jan Piwowoński: Flota spod biało-czerwonej [Fleet under white and red] , Nasza Księgarnia Publishing House, Warsaw 1989, ISBN 83-10-08902-3 .
↑ David Greenman, EC Talbot-Booth: Jane's Warsaw Pact Merchant Ship Recognition Handbook , Jane's Transport Press, London 1987, ISBN 0-7106-0455-6 , p. 81
