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Name: SARATOVSKIY LEDOKOL
Launched: 07/05/1895
Completed: 1895
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 627
Dimensions: 569grt, 42nrt, 140.0 x 335.8 x 15.7ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (26 & 50 x 30ins), 228nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1895 Riazan - Uralsk Railroad Company, Saratov
1923 People's Commissariat of Communication Routes of the Soviet Union - NKPS
1946 Ministry of Railways, USSR
12/1968 Sank
Comments: Designed for use on the River Volga with train ferry SARATOVSKAYA PEREPRAVA
She was cut in half longitudinally to permit transit through the Marinsky Canal
en route from the Baltic to the Volga
1967: Laid up at Engels, Saratov Oblast
12/1968: Sank at moorings and not raised


Above photo showing the longitudinal break is copyright of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum

Above photo is copyright of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum

Above photo is copyright of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum

Above photo is copyright of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum

Above: SARATOVSKIY LEDOKOL leads SARATOVSKAYA PEREPRAVA. Photo is copyright of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum

Above photo showing the submerged hulk is copyright of Valery Kovlyar

Marine Engineer, June 1895