Black Sea Company. Steel made hull, displacement 2.350 tons and as dimensions 284.0 x 37.0 x 14.9 feet, one screw, horsepower 3.500 ihp, speed 16 knots, launched at Hebburn, England in 1890.(1)
Note
1. The Velikiy Knyaz Aleksey, launched at Hwathorn Leslie&Co. Ltd., Hebburn, England with yard number 298 on 8 May 1890 and completed in August 1890 for account of the Russian Steam Navigation&Trading Company (ROPIT), Odessa, Russia, commissioned in the Russian navy as the Aleksey in 1917, as the Pestel taken over by the Russian government at Odessa and added to Sovtorgflot in 1920 and sunk when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U 20 8 miles north east of Trebizond, Turkey on 19 June 1944.
