| Name: | POLUS or POLYUS |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 15/02/1897 |
| Completed: | 04/1897 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 345 |
| Dimensions: | 976grt, 763nrt, 225.0 x 31.8 x 12.3ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (11.5, 18 & 30 x 20ins), 162nhp, 1400ihp |
| Engines by: | Ross & Duncan, Glasgow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 9.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 04/1897 | Eastern Carrying, Insurance, Storing & Warrant Co, Astrakhan |
| 1915 | Obschestvo 'Kamvo', Astrakhan |
| 06/1920 | Kaspmortran, Baku |
| 1922 | Caspian Shipping, Baku |
| 1923 | A/O 'Kaspar', Baku |
| 1930 | A/O 'Sovtorgflot', Baku |
| 1938 | 'Kaspflotr', Baku |
| 08/1941 | Soviet Navy |
| 11/1943 | 'Kaspflotr', Baku |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 20 x 1st and 300 x 3rd Class passengers |
| Towed & rafted via Volga-Baltic Waterway (Mariinsk Canal system) to the Caspian Sea | |
| 08/1941: Requisitioned by the Soviet Navy for use as floating anti-aircraft battery PZB1 | |
| 11/1943: Released from requisition | |
| Out of service in 1950's, fate unknown |
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