SS Sołdek

SS Sołdek as a museum ship in Gdansk
History
 Poland
Name: SS Sołdek
Namesake: Stanislaw Sołdek
Owner: Polska Żegluga Morska
Port of registry: Szczecin
Builder: Stocznia Gdańska
Laid down: 3 April 1948
Launched: 6 November 1948
In service: 21 October 1949
Out of service: 30 December 1980
Identification:
Fate: Established as a museum ship in Gdansk, 17 July 1985
General characteristics
Tonnage:
Length: 87 m (285 ft 5 in)
Beam: 12.3 m (40 ft 4 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Howden-Johnson boilers
  • 1 × 1,300 shp (969 kW) 4-cylinder steam engine
  • 1 × screw
Speed: 9.9 knots (18.3 km/h; 11.4 mph)
Crew: 28
Launching of SS Sołdek
Boilers of SS Sołdek

SS Sołdek was a Polish coal and ore freighter. She was the first ship built in Szczecin (Poland) after World War II and the first seagoing ship completed in Poland. She was the first of 29 ships classed as Project B30, built between 1949 and 1954 in Stocznia Gdańska (Gdańsk Shipyard). The name was given in honour of Stanisław Sołdek, one of the shipyard's shock workers.[2]

The ship is currently preserved as a museum ship in Gdańsk, as a part of National Maritime Museum collection.[3]

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) - Zaporozhe
  2. (B30/8) - Krivoy Rog
  3. (B30/9) - Kramatorsk
  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

A number of B-30 ships saw service for the Soviet Navy, as auxiliary vessels (e. g. transports), including the "Tovda" and the "Vitegra". Corresponding data (including side plan) can be found i. a. in Weyer's Flottentaschenbuch 1971/72.

References

  1. ↑ "SOLDEK". shipspotting.com. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "History of the ship". Polish Maritime Museum. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "SS Sołdek". Polish Maritime Museum. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

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

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