MS Krim

MS Krim was the lead ship of her class of six cargo liners built for the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. The ship was the sole ship of her class to survive the Second World War. She was converted into a training ship in 1966.

Description

Krim had an overall length of, with a beam of and a draught of. She had two decks and a Glossary of [nautical terms (A-L)#D|depth of hold] of. The ship was assessed at,, and. She had a pair of six-cylinder, two-stroke diesel engines, each driving a screw propeller, and the engines were rated at a total of 1,163 nominal horsepower. Sources differ about her maximum speed, quoting speeds of or. The ship had a designed capacity of 450 passengers.

Construction and career

Krim was one of the two ships in the class that was constructed in 1928 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, Germany. After completion the ship was assigned to the Black Sea State Shipping Company by Sovtorgflot with its port of registry at Odessa.