Inner harbour of Vlissingen, Netherlands 23 August 2013
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 22 August 2013
Russia-flagged, IMO 6822979, MMSI 273243700 and callsign UCVK (shipspotting). Launched on 11 June 1926 at the shipyard of Joh. C. Teckleborg Schiffswerft&Maschinen, Bremerhaven, Germany as the Padua for the famous P-line of shipowner Ferdinand Laiesz at Hamburg. She was used as a cargo ship on the shipping line Germany-Chile bringing for instance Construction outward and returning with saltpeter. On 12 January 1946 she was as a war reparation handed over to the Soviet Union and commissioned in the Baltic Fleet with as homeport Kronstadt where she was berthed until 1961. In Russian service was she renamed after the Russian navy officer Adam Johann von Krusenstern. She undergone then major repairs and received for the first time in her lifespan engines. In the period 1961-1965 was she used by the Academy of Sciences for hydrographic and oceanographical research in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Caribbean and in the Mediterranean and for the training of naval cadets. In 1965 she became as school ship for training fishery officers for which purpose she was handed over to the Ministry of Fisheries in Riga, Between 1968 and 1972 she was thoroughly modernized and painted in the contemporary colours. In 1981 handed over to the Estonian Fishery Industry at Tallinn and 10 years later added to the State Baltic Academy of the Fisheries with as homeport Kaliningrad. Her original Gross register tonnage was 3.064 tons with as dimensions 114,4 x 1402 x 68 x 51,3 (height) metres or 375’ x 46’0” x 22’x 168’. Nowadays fitted out with xx1.000 bhp 8-cyinder diesel engines allowing a speed of 17,3 knots.
