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SADKO

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Built as a cargo-passenger vessel under yard No 898 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Newcastle, U.K. for Reid Newfoundland Co., St John, New Foundland.
21 January 1913 launched under the name LINTROSE.
Tonnage 1.616 gross, 506 net, dim. 255.0 x 28.3 x 22.7ft.
Powered by a triple expansion steam engine, 3.500 hp., one propeller, speed 15 knots.
Four boilers.
Passenger accommodation for 80 first class and 150 second class passengers.
Ice strengthened. Five watertight compartments
12 March 1913 trials in the mouth of the Tyne.

The Newcastle Daily Journal did give on 23 January 1913, that she was an exceptionally strongly constructed vessel for running through ice. Her plates are 3.1cm steel from her bows, which were of icebreaker design to halfway aft, and the remainders of her hull plates are 2.5cm steel.

Her delivery voyage was rough due to bad weather, when she arrived 29 March 1913 at St John; she had considerable damage to her superstructure.
She was built for the regular service between Port aux Basques, New Foundland and North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
When Reid Newfoundland Co. decided to abandon the daily crossing after two years in service, she was put up for sale.
Promptly bought by de Imperial Russian Government, which needed her to keep the important port of Archangels open during the winter season, to supply important war materials to the Russian army.
01 February 1915 she sailed from St John under the name SADKO.

After arrival in North Russia was she kept busy to transport supplies and escorting other merchant ships from Aleksandrousk-Na-Murmane (now Polyarnyy) through the ice of the Witte Sea to Archangels the rest of that winter and the next winter.

June 1916 mostly because her very good accommodation was she selected for a special mission to take an Russian Government commission to Kandalaksha, the commission had to inspect the progress in the railway construction from that place to Murmansk.
20 June 1916 at full speed in Kandalakhaya Guba she hit a submerged rock, she got a gash of five meter in her underwater port side and sank within 10 minutes. She sank on even keel, with only her top of the funnel and mast above water.

The next 17 year she stayed in that position, till on 14 October 1933 she was refloated by a Russian salvage team. The team worked on her salvage for two entire seasons. Towed to Archangels were she underwent a major refit during the winter of 1933/34.
09 July 1934 did she made her trials, and reached a speed of 15.2 knots.

Then used for a Russian scientist voyage, sailed out on the end of June 1935 with on board 35 scientists, heading for Svalbard (Spitsbergen) to carry out oceanographic work in the Greenland Sea. When completed she sailed to the north of Svalbard and then to Franz Joseph Land and Severnaja Zemlys to carry out scientist observation. The whole voyage took 85 days and she sailed that voyage more as 6000 miles of which more as 3000 miles were steamed north of the 80th parallel.
The scientist during this voyage had occupied 107 oceanographic stations and 51 gravity stations, 2.500 soundings were made, measured 13 magnetic points and released 21 radiosondes.
But most important the meteorological and ice date collected were very helpful to forecast ice conditions along the northern sea route.

Took part in more expedition voyages in the Northern waters during one of this voyages in 1937 together with the MALYGIN and SEDOV were she trapped in the ice of the Arctic. The icebreaker YERMAK send out to free the vessels got also stuck in the ice, and only in the next year the MALYGIN, SADKO and SEDOV were reached in a position of 83 North by the YERMAK. The Malygin and SADKO got free of the ice. The SEDOV was not so lucky, she did have rudder damage and she was used as a drifting research vessel the next 812 days before she drifted out of the ice.

11 September 1941 the SADKO sank after running on an uncharted reef off Franz Josef Land in the Kara
Sea.
Russia 1977 10k sg 4656, scott 4581.

Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1913. East Coast Panorama by J.P Andrieux. Navicula. Log Book.

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Re: SADKO

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:59 pm

The 125th Anniversary of the birth of Nikolay Zubov.

NIKOLAY ZUBOV (1885-1960) is a naval officer, oceanographer and Arctic explorer.
He participated in the Russian-Japanese War and in the Battle of Tsushima in 1905.
1912 he made a hydrographic survey of the Mitiushikha inlet on the western shore of Novaya Zemlya.
In 1932 was he the leader of an expedition on the auxiliary wooden sailing vessel NIKOLAI KNIPOVICH also given in some sources as KNIPOVICH. And for the first time in history of Arctic navigation she rounded from the north the Franz Josef Land archipelago.
In 1935 he was the director of the scientific unit of the first Soviet high-latitude expedition on the icebreaker SADKO.

Nikolay Zubov made a great contribution to the development of the native oceanography: he was among the first to put forward and develop the problem of ice forecasting in the Arctic seas, he also founded and was head of the sub-department of Oceanography at the Moscow Hydro-meteorological Institute and director of the Oceanographic Institute, professor in the sub-department of geography of the Moscow State University.

To honour his name a bay in Antarctic, a cape on Novaya Zemlya archipelago and two Russian research ships the NIKOLAY ZUBOV and the PROFESSOR ZUBOV were name after him.

The stamp depicts a portrait of Nikolay Zubov and the Russian icebreaker SADKO.

Russia 2010 12p sg?, scott?
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