SS Sołdek

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.

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SS Sołdek as a museum ship in Gdańsk

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Launching of SS Sołdek

Data

• Dimensions:
  • Length: 87 m
  • Width: 12.3 m
• Tonnage: 2,610 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
• Capacity:
  • 2005 BRT
  • 994 NRT
• 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• December 30, 1980 - withdrawn from service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

External links

• Link to museum (in Polish); video of museum ship
• Drawing of longitudinal section of ship