SS Sołdek

SS Sołdek was a Polish coal and ore freighter. She was the first ship built in Szczecin (Poland) after World War II and the first seagoing ship completed in Poland. She was the first of 29 ships classed as Project B30, built between 1949 and 1954 in Stocznia Gdańska (Gdańsk Shipyard). The name was given in honour of Stanisław Sołdek, one of the shipyard's shock workers.[2]

SS Sołdek as a museum ship in Gdansk
History
Poland
Name:	SS Sołdek
Namesake:	Stanislaw Sołdek
Owner:	Polska Żegluga Morska
Port of registry:	Szczecin
Builder:	Stocznia Gdańska
Laid down:	3 April 1948
Launched:	6 November 1948
In service:	21 October 1949
Out of service:	30 December 1980
Identification:	IMO number: 5333373 Call sign: SPCJ[1]
Fate:	Established as a museum ship in Gdansk, 17 July 1985
General characteristics
Tonnage:	2,005 GRT 994 NRT 2,610 t DWT
Length:	87 m (285 ft 5 in)
Beam:	12.3 m (40 ft 4 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Howden-Johnson boilers 1 × 1,300 shp (969 kW) 4-cylinder steam engine 1 × screw
Speed:	9.9 knots (18.3 km/h; 11.4 mph)
Crew:	28

Launching of SS Sołdek

Boilers of SS Sołdek

The ship is currently preserved as a museum ship in Gdańsk, as a part of National Maritime Museum collection.[3]

Other B30 ships

Polish

• Sołdek (shipyard number B30/1)
• Jedność Robotnicza (B30/2)
• Brygada Makowskiego (B30/3)
• 1 Maj (B30/4) (sold to the USSR as Pervomaysk)
• Pstrowski (B30/5)
• Wieczorek (B30/6)

Built for the USSR

1. (B30/7) - Zaporozhe
2. (B30/8) - Krivoy Rog
3. (B30/9) - Kramatorsk
4. (B30/10) - Makeevka
5. (B30/11) - Gorlovka
6. (B30/12) - Novo- Shahtinsk
7. (B30/13) - Solikamsk
8. (B30/14) - Kurgan
9. (B30/15) - Zlatoust
10. (B30/16) - Minusinsk
11. (B30/17) - Pavlodar
12. (B30/18) - Jenakiyevo
13. (B30/19) - Nikitovka
14. (B30/20) - Novocherkassk
15. (B30/21) - Volnovacha
16. (B30/22) - Vitegra
17. (B30/23) - Tovda
18. (B30/24) - Kalar
19. (B30/25) - Azovstal
20. (B30/26) - Tkvarcheli
21. (B30/27) - Zangenzur
22. (B30/28) - Malaia Zemlia
23. (B30/29) - Pereyeslav Khmielnitsky

A number of B-30 ships saw service for the Soviet Navy, as auxiliary vessels (e. g. transports), including the "Tovda" and the "Vitegra". Corresponding data (including side plan) can be found i. a. in Weyer's Flottentaschenbuch 1971/72.

References

1. "SOLDEK". shipspotting.com. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
2. "History of the ship". Polish Maritime Museum. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
3. "SS Sołdek". Polish Maritime Museum. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

External links

• The museum-ship "Soldek"