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Monday 23 May 2022

Russian transport annex training ship Okean visited the Dutch East Indies in December 1903

Appearance as the planned aircraft carrier Komsomolets


The Dutch newspaper Soerabijasch handelsblad dated 11 December 1903 reporting the arrival of the Russian transport annex training ship Ocean at Sabang for coal and fresh water. De locomotief dated 11 December confirmed in an item dated Sabang 10 December this arrival. The edition dated 9 September 1903 referred to her (now called Okean) visiting Colombo, Ceylon. A correspondent of the Times of Ceylon went on board and wondered afterwards that almost none of the officers spoke English while at the contrary most of them spoke French fluently and German quite well.

Note

1. Part of the Baltic Fleet, built by Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany between 1901-1902 especially for training naval engineers, for this purpose fitted out with a range of several types of boilers, renamed Komsomolets on 15 October 1922 and PKZ-72 on 20 November 1956. Was as Komsomolets in 1927 to be converted into an aircraft carrier resembling the British HMS Hermes.

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