SS Sołdek
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The SS Sołdek was a Polish coal and ore freighter ship. She was the first ship built in Poland after World War II and the first seagoing ship completed in Poland. She was the first of twenty nine ships classed as Project B30, built in 1949 - 1954 in Stocznia Gdańska (Gdańsk Shipyard). The name was given in honour of Stanisław Sołdek, one of the shipyard's prominent workers.
The ship is currently preserved as a museum ship in Gdańsk.
Data
- Dimensions:
- Length: 87 m
- Width: 12.3 m
- Tonnage: 2,610 t DWT DWT uses unsupported parameter (help)
- Capacity:
- 2 steam boilers (Howden-Johnson)
- 1 steam engine 4 cylinder, 1300 hp (970 kW), 1 screw
- max. speed: 9.9 knot (18 km/h)
- crew: 28
History
- April 3, 1948 - laid
- November 6, 1948 - launched
- October 21, 1949 - entered service
- December 30, 1980 - withdrawn from service
- July 17, 1985 - established as a museum ship in Gdańsk
Other B30 ships
Polish
- Sołdek (shipyard number B30/1)
- Jedność Robotnicza (B30/2)
- Brygada Makowskiego (B30/3)
- 1 Maj (B30/4) (sold to the USSR as Pervomaysk)
- Pstrowski (B30/5)
- Wieczorek (B30/6)
Built for the USSR
- (B30/7) - Zaporoge
- (B30/8) - Krivoy Rog
- (B30/9) - Krematorsk
- (B30/10) - Makeevka
- (B30/11) - Gorlovka
- (B30/12) - Novo- Shahtinsk
- (B30/13) - Solikamsk
- (B30/14) - Kurgan
- (B30/15) - Zlatoust
- (B30/16) - Minusinsk
- (B30/17) - Pavlodar
- (B30/18) - Jenakiyevo
- (B30/19) - Nikitovka
- (B30/20) - Novocherkassk
- (B30/21) - Volnovacha
- (B30/22) - Vitegra
- (B30/23) - Tovda
- (B30/24) - Kalar
- (B30/25) - Azovstal
- (B30/26) - Tkvarcheli
- (B30/27) - Zangenzur
- (B30/28) - Malaia Zemlia
- (B30/29) - Pereyeslav Khmielnitsky