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Name: PERVOI
Launched: 12/06/1894
Completed: 08/1894
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd, Low Walker
Yard Number: 623
Dimensions: 264grt, 117nrt, 185.0 x 25.0 x 7.2ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (16 & 30 x 42ins), 97nhp
Engines by: Bow, McLachlan & Co, Paisley
Propulsion: Paddle & chain
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1894 Government of Russia, Ministry of Ways & Communications
1918 Government of the USSR; renamed AMUR
1938 Norillag Gulag, USSR
1944 Renamed STEPAN VEREBRUSOV
No later history known
Comments: For service on Siberian rivers in connection with Trans-Siberian railway
Used on the River Enisey (or Yeniseisk)
Failed to overcome the Angara rapids, so chain removed
1902: Chain removed and rebuilt as paddle tug
1906: Passed from Enisey via Kara Sea to river Ob
1908: Rebuilt as passenger river vessel
1938: Passed from river Ob via Kara Sea to river Enisey


Above photo showing PERVOI & VTOROI is copyright of Newcastle City Libraries

Above photo showing the windlass for the chain between the funnels is copyright of Newcastle City Libraries

Above photo showing PERVOI in 1910 is courtesy of the Omsk Institute of Water Transport

Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Monday, 06/08/1894