A report from Op-16-FT, Washington, USA dated 1 July 1944 serial FT-49-44 described all Soviet merchant ships active in the Pacific. On 15 June 1944 were 207 Russian merchant ships with a total gross tonnage of 891,591 tons active in transpacific and coastal waters.This number included for instance 36 Liberty ships. 70% or 627,649 gross tons participated in regular transpacific traffic destinated for Siberian harbors and 95 vessels or 264.942 gross tons in the coastal waters. The 207 vessels excluded 7 icebreakers.
Gross tonnage 5,055 tons. Type whale factory ship. Built 1919. Speed 7 knots. Fuel coal. Service cargo. Internation call sign UOFX. Service coastal waters. Remarks converted from a freighter into a whale factory ship.(1)
Note
1. Built as the cargo ship Glen Ridge design 1063 by Standard Shipbuilding Corporation, Shooters Island, New York in 1919, converted in 1929, still active in the second half of the 1960s and broken up by 1970. As Aleut homeport Vladivostok, gross tonnage 5,055 tons, under deck 4,205 tons, net tonnage 2,454 tons and as dimensions 377.0 x 52.0 x 26.6 feet.
Sources
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR450(7) Sec 2 Location of Russian Ships, 1942-1945
Lloyds Register 1947-1948
Naval Marine Archive (https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/merchantships/1atlantic.html)
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