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VITYAZ

Post by shipstamps » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:49 pm


Built as a cargo vessel under yard No.614 by AG Deschimag Seebeck, Wesermünde, Germany for D.G. Neptun, Bremen.
Launched under the name MARS, one sister ZEUS.
Tonnage 2.471 gross, 1.981 net, 4.360 dwt., dim. 100.0 (bpp.) x 14.55 x 6.93m. (draught)
Powered by one 7-cyl oil engine, manufactured by Krupp-Germania Werft, Kiel, 727 nhp., (3.000 bhp.) one shaft, speed 14 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 12 persons.
Crew 29.
15 August 1939 delivered to owners.

13 August 1939 already chartered by the German Navy, to be used in Operation Seelöwe (Sealion) as Transport A 36.
15 December 1940 returned to owners.
13 May 1942 again chartered by the German Navy, and transferred to the Sea Transport Chef Norway.
From 18 February 1945 till 15 April 1945 used for the evacuation of the German refugees from the Baltic states to Germany.
She made 5 voyages as so, and according the captain she had circa 18.700 people transported.
Then used as Navy hospital ship at Copenhagen.

During her stay in Copenhagen, was she already captured by English commandos, and the hospital removed.
29 June 1945 sailed to Methil, Scotland.
Renamed in EMPIRE FORTH and transferred to Ministry of War Transport (MOT), managed by Indo China SN Co. Ltd, London.
After the Prize Court at London had decided to transfer her to the Soviet Union., she sailed from Liverpool to Leningrad under the name EQUATOR (EKVATOR) .
Between 1 February 1947 and 8 May 1948 fitted out as a research vessel by the Mathias-Thessen-Werke at Weimar, East Germany.
08 May 1948 renamed in VITYAZ (WITJAZ) with homeport Vladivostok, later Kaliningrad.
Tonnage 3.248 gross, 1.392 net, 1.695 dwt., dim. 109.58 x 14.43m.

As research vessel she had accommodation for 73 persons, carried around 64 scientists, who could work in the 12 laboratories on board. Crew 64.
After a trial voyage in the Black Sea, she made her first research voyage in the Sea of Japan in 1949.
The used for research voyages in the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.
In the International Geophysical Year 1957, she discover the Vityaz trench with a depth of 11.034 meter in position 12N 144E.
Also by the discovery of the manganese nodules at the sea bottom became she well known.

1979 After 65 research voyages she was taken out of service.
2007 Still in use as a museum ship at Kaliningrad. Baltic coast, Russia.

Russia 1959 25k sg 2372, scott 2233

http://www.biedekarken.de/zeus.htm

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Re: VITYAZ

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu May 14, 2015 9:50 pm

Russia 2011
France 2017 20gr letter sg?, scott?
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