| Name: | SEMEN DEZNYOV or SEMYON DEZHNYOFF |
| Type: | Tug |
| Launched: | n/a |
| Completed: | 1895 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 634 |
| Dimensions: | 236grt, 160.0 x 24.0 x 3.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | Diag C2cyl, 160nhp, 500ihp |
| Engines by: | Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley |
| Propulsion: | Paddle |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 1895 | Amur River Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Khabarovsk, Russian Empire |
| 1911 | HP Tetyuckov & Co, Blagoveshchensk |
| 1918 | Unknown |
| 1922 | Soskin Port, Harbin, Manchuria |
| 1926 | Government of China; unknown name |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | 08/06/1895: Shipped to buyers, along with 3 x barges, onboard WILHELM |
| 1895: Name initially reported as DEZHNYO | |
| 05/1896: Launched into river Amur at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur | |
| 1918: Russian Civil War | |
| 1922: White Russian control on the Songhua River | |
| 1926: Siezed by the Chinese Government |
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