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Saturday, 6 October 2018

Bulgarian navy vessel Goryanin according to a CIA report dated 13 November 1952

The sketch is based on the original sketch in the report

An item reported the Bulgarian ship Goryanin (1) built in Bulgaria in 1946, added to the Bulgarian navy in 1951, with a displacement of 350 tons and 1-450hp 8 cylinder diesel.

Sources
C.I.A. report no. CIA-RDP83-00415RO12700120006-1
https://www.rooms.bg/en/zabelejitelnost--otkrit-muzei-korab-gorqnin-grcarevo--.html
http://visit.guide-bulgaria.com/a/642/outdoor_museum_goryanin_ship.htm

Note
1. Built in 1947 as a wood made 3-mast schooner at Tsarevo, Bulgaria of which believed that’s she is the largest wooden ship ever built in this country. In advance used as cargo ship became she later as the Vaptsarov training ship at the naval bas at Varna. Early 1980s handed over to the Bulgarian Voluntary Organisation for Assistance in Defence. Afterwards converted into a floating restaurant berthed at the purva bunu pier in Varna. Sunk in 1993 were after 12 years her remains salvaged and exhibited in a museum at Tsarevo.