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Name: PETERSBURG
Type: Passenger Ship
Launched: 07/02/1894
Completed: 05/1894
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 317
Dimensions: 5432grt, 1796nrt, 439.0 x 52.0 x 31.6ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (34, 54 & 85 x 51ins), 1149nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 19.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
05/1894 Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa
1904 Imperial Russian Navy; renamed DNIEPR
1905 Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa; renamed PETERSBURG
1914 Renamed PETROGRAD
1914 Imperial Russian Navy; renamed DON
1921 Broken up
Comments: 1904: Converted to an auxiliary cruiser
1914: Used as a transport N157
1918: Captured by Germany
1918: Captured by Britain
1919: Delivered to the White Army
1921: Arrived at Bizerta with the Wrangell squadron, the last of the White Russian Fleet
1921: Broken up in Italy


The Marine Engineer, August 1894