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Name: LEDOKOL 3 also seen as LEDOKOL III
Type: Icebreaker
Launched: 28/07/1899
Completed: 10/1899
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 690
Dimensions: 907grt, 152nrt, 148.7 x 42.0 x 15.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (24.5, 38 & 61 x 39ins), 312nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1899 Government of Russian Empire - Ministry of Finance
1905 Government of Russian Empire - Ministry of Trade & Commerce
1918 Unknown owner
1919 White Russian forces; renamed DZHIGIT
10/02/1923 Unknown owner
No later history known
Comments: Ledokol translates as Icebreaker in Russian
1899: For use in the port of Odessa & Black Sea
1918: Russian civil war
1919: White Russian Black Sea fleet as an armed gunboat
1921: Laid up at Bizerte, unarmed & for sale
10/02/1923: Probably sold to China via Greek intermediaries
Probably converted into a salvage tug and renamed


Above photo is copyright of Newcastle City Libraries

Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 31/07/1899