SS Sołdek

The SS "Sołdek" was a Polish coal and ore freighter ship. She was the first ship built in Poland after World War II and the first sea-going ship completed in Poland. She was the first of twenty nine ships classed as Project B30, built in 1949 - 1954 in Stocznia Gdańska (Gdańsk Shipyard). The name was given in honour of Stanisław Sołdek, one of the shipyard's prominent workers.

The ship is currently preserved as a museum ship in Gdańsk.

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museum ship in Gdańsk]

Data:

*Dimensions:
**Length: 87 m
**Width: 12.3 m
*Tonnage: DWT|2610|metric|first=yes
*Capacity:
**2005 BRT
**994 NRT
*2 steam boilers (Howden-Johnson)
*1 steam engine 4 cylinder, 1300 hp (970 kW), 1 screw
*max. speed: 9.9 knot (18 km/h)
*crew: 28

History

*April 3, 1948 - laid
*November 6, 1948 - launched
*October 21, 1949 - entered service
*December 30, 1980 - withdrawn from service
*July 17, 1985 - established as a museum ship in Gdańsk

Other B30 ships

Polish:

*"Sołdek" (shipyard number B30/1)
*"Jedność Robotnicza" (B30/2)
*"Brygada Makowskiego" (B30/3)
*"1 Maj" (B30/4) (sold to the USSR as "Pervomaysk")
*"Pstrowski" (B30/5)
*"Wieczorek" (B30/6)

Built for the USSR:

#(B30/7) - "Zaporoge",
#(B30/8) - "Krivoy Rog",
#(B30/9) - "Krematorsk",
#(B30/10) - "Makeevka",
#(B30/11) - "Gorlovka",
#(B30/12) - "Novo- Shahtinsk",
#(B30/13) - "Solikamsk",
#(B30/14) - "Kurgan",
#(B30/15) - "Zlatoust",
#(B30/16) - "Minusinsk",
#(B30/17) - "Pavlodar",
#(B30/18) - "Jenakiyevo",
#(B30/19) - "Nikitovka",
#(B30/20) - "Novocherkassk",
#(B30/21) - "Volnovacha",
#(B30/22) - "Vitegra",
#(B30/23) - "Tovda",
#(B30/24) - "Kalar",
#(B30/25) - "Azovstal",
#(B30/26) - "Tkvarcheli",
#(B30/27) - "Zangenzur",
#(B30/28) - "Malaia Zemlia",
#(B30/29) - "Pereyeslav Khmielnitsky"

External links

* [http://www.cmm.pl/stateks.php?main=info&mid=14&lang=pl_ Link to museum (in Polish); video of museum ship]
* [http://zzkptiof.nw.pl/Soldek2.jpgDrawing of longitudinal section of ship]