Built as a cargo-passenger-icebreaker in 1937 by the Andre Marti Yard at Leningrad for the USSR.
According to Lloyds Shipping Index she was named DEJNEV, but I found her also as DEZNEV and SEMYON DEZHNEV. Named after the famous Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev who in 1648 sailed the entire length of the present day Russia by way of the Arctic Ocean.
Tonnage 3.578 gross, 1.678 net, dim. 335 x 49 ft.
One triple expansion steamengine ?hp (Navicula gives diesel engine 2.500 hp. Speed 11.5 knots) can be that the diesel engine later was built in. But when built she was steam powered.
During World War II in use as an auxiliary naval escort vessel SKR 19.
Armament 4 – 7.6, 4 – 4.5 inch guns.
During an attack by the heavy German cruiser ADMIRAL SCHEER on the port of Dikson on 27 Aug. 1942 she was heavily damaged.
12 Feb 1968 she sailed from Antwerp to Riga.
1970 She was broken up in the USSR.
Russia 1977 12k sg4657, scott?
Source: Enzyklopadie der Maritimen Philatelie (Navicula). Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1937.