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.

File:Soldek wodowanie.jpg
Launching of SS Sołdek

Data

  • Dimensions:
    • Length: 87 m
    • Width: 12.3 m
  • Tonnage: 2,610 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
  • 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  • December 30, 1980 - withdrawn from service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

  1. (B30/7) - Zaporoge
  2. (B30/8) - Krivoy Rog
  3. (B30/9) - Krematorsk
  4. (B30/10) - Makeevka
  5. (B30/11) - Gorlovka
  6. (B30/12) - Novo- Shahtinsk
  7. (B30/13) - Solikamsk
  8. (B30/14) - Kurgan
  9. (B30/15) - Zlatoust
  10. (B30/16) - Minusinsk
  11. (B30/17) - Pavlodar
  12. (B30/18) - Jenakiyevo
  13. (B30/19) - Nikitovka
  14. (B30/20) - Novocherkassk
  15. (B30/21) - Volnovacha
  16. (B30/22) - Vitegra
  17. (B30/23) - Tovda
  18. (B30/24) - Kalar
  19. (B30/25) - Azovstal
  20. (B30/26) - Tkvarcheli
  21. (B30/27) - Zangenzur
  22. (B30/28) - Malaia Zemlia
  23. (B30/29) - Pereyeslav Khmielnitsky

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Coordinates: 54°21′05″N 18°39′32″E / 54.35139°N 18.65889°E / 54.35139; 18.65889

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