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 11,439 tons. Type ss combined. Built in 1899. Speed 10 knots. Fuel coal. International call sign UOJT. Service Transpacific. Remarks training ship for Soviet merchant schools. (1)
Note
1. Passengers-cargo ship. Built by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany in 1899 as the Belgravia of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt A,G., Hamburg in 1899, as the ss Riga owned by the Soviet Navy 1905-1919, as Transbalt owned by Russian government/Sovtorgflot 1919-1945 and by mistake torpedoed and sunk by the USS submarine Spadefish (SS-411) in the western entrance of the Pérouse Strait on 13 June 1945. According to the Dutch newspaper Winschoter Courant dated 26 February 1931 unloaded she at Hamburg in February 1931 8,000 bales/more as 800,000 kg potato starch for the Dutch industry in Groningen. She left Leningrad/St. Petersburg in December 1930 but was for a long time stuck in the ice.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR450(7) Sec 2 Location of Russian Ships, 1942-1945
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