Owned by Russian Danube Steam Navigation Co., Odessa, Russia [nowadays Ukraine]. Capacity 10.000 pouds of 16 kilo each. Scuttled at Corabia on 12 December 1915.(1)
Note
1. Corabia is a small Romanian Danube port, before the Second World War part of Romanati County. An item dated Budapest, Hungary 13th published in the Dutch newspaper Provinciale Noordbrabantsche en ‘s Hertogenbosche courant dated 13 October 1915 supplied some details what was happening then. Serbia was attacked by German-Austrian forces. The Russian steam ships St. Georgia, Romania, Nikolus, Turgenjew and Servië seek with 14 lighters refugee in Corabia.
Source
P.A. Warneck, ‘Russian, Rumanian and other barges on the Danube 1914-1918’, The Belgian Shiplover, 49 (No. 1-1974), p. 43-44.
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