| Name: | SARATOV or SARATOW |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 23/07/1891 |
| Completed: | 12/1891 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 305 |
| Dimensions: | 5309grt, 2068nrt, 439.0 x 50.0 x 32.1ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (34, 54 & 85 x 51ins), 1127nhp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 18.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 12/1891 | Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa |
| 06/02/1915 | Russian Imperial Navy - Black Sea Fleet |
| 05/1918 | Russian White Navy - Black Sea Fleet |
| 12/1920 | Unknown owner, Greece: renamed BERNINA |
| 1923 | National Navigation Co of Egypt (Costi Xydia & Son), Alexandria |
| 1923 | Renamed EGYPT |
| 1924 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Built for the service between Odessa & Vladivostock |
| Accommodation for a small number of 1st Class passengers & 1500 x emigrants or troops | |
| 1906: Rebuilt with new boilers and a single funnel. 14.0knots | |
| 06/02/1915: Requisitioned and given the temporary name TRANSPORT NO 6 | |
| 13/11/1920: Sailed from Crimea to Istanbul carrying evacuating 'White' troops | |
| 4Q/1924: Broken up |
Above photo as SARATOV is courtesy of the Lemachko BV collection
Above photo as SARATOV (after 1906) is courtesy of Photoship
Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 24/07/1891