MS Sobieski
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| Career |
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| Name: |
MS Sobieski |
| Owner: |
Polish Ocena Lines |
| Operator: |
Gdynia America Line |
| Route: |
South America service |
| Builder: |
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend. |
| Launched: |
25th August 1938 |
| Completed: |
15th June 1939 |
| Out of service: |
1939 taken up as troopship |
| Identification: |
1947 returned to civilian service |
| Fate: |
1975 scrapped at La Spezia |
| Notes: |
1950 sold to Russia renamed Gruziya |
| General characteristics |
| Tonnage: |
11,030 BRT |
| Length: |
155,8 m |
| Beam: |
20,4 m |
| Draft: |
8,3 m |
| Installed power: |
Engines by J. G. Kincaid & Co, Greenock |
| Propulsion: |
Twin screw |
| Speed: |
17 knots |
| Capacity: |
44 first-class, 250 third-class and 850 emigrants |
| Notes: |
[1] |
M/S Sobieski was a Polish passenger ship built for the Polish Ocena Lines to replace the aging SS Kościuszko and SS Pulaski; a sister ship to the MS Chrobry. She was named in honour of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski[2].
The ship was used as a troopship in Operation Ariel and the Battle of Dakar.
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Gdynia America Line
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