An item reported that Bulgaria signed a few years ago a contract with the Soviet Union for delivering 20 large stern trawlers by 1970. Mid 1967 were at least around 7-3,200 gross tons trawlers delivered for fishing in the southeastern Atlantic off southwest Africa. Soviets experts on board of the vessels trained the Bulgarian crews in navigation and fishing techniques. In March-April 1967 expanded the activities into the southwest Atlantic. The two large stern trawlers Pelikan (1) and Fenisk left the fleet fishing pilchards off Africa and sailed to the Patagonian Continental Shellf off Argentina. The Soviet Union was since late 1966 in the southwestern Atlantic off Argentina and probably both Bulgarian vessels were to join the Soviet fleets there. The Soviets could supply the necessary fishing data, water, fuel, repairs and so on.
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1. The stern trawling factory ship, USSR-flagged, built by Volkswerft Stralsund, Stralsund, DDR in 1966, IMO 6707644, tonnage 2,435 gross and 1,070 net tons, deadweight 850 tons and as dimensions 233.0-261.10 x 42.2-43.4 x 23.0 x 16.1 feet?
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