SS Leninsky Komsomol
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
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| Owner | 1959–1988: Black Sea Shipping Company, USSR |
| Operator | 1959–1988: Black Sea Shipping Company |
| Port of registry | |
| Builder | Kherson shipyard |
| Launched | 11 of April, 1959. Construction completed including trials, handed over to Black Sea Shipping Co. and put into operation on 23 of December, 1959. |
| Renamed | Ungur (Russian: Унгур) on 31 of January, 1986 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5206166 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1988 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | freighter, tweendecker |
| Tonnage |
|
| Length | 557 ft (169.9 m) |
| Beam | 72 ft (21.8 m) |
| Height | 42 ft (12.9 m) |
| Draught | 31.9 ft (9.73 m) |
| Propulsion | two steam turbine engines driving a single bronze screw propeller diam. 6.3 m (21 ft) |
| Crew | 48 crew members, 12 passengers and 8 cadets |
Leninsky Komsomol (Russian: Ленинский Комсомол) was a merchant ship of Black Sea Shipping Company (Soviet Union), a tweendecker type freighter with steam turbine engines and the first ship in the Leninsky Komsomol class, project 567. The ship is named in honor of the Komsomol league, which was added by Lenin.
Plenty of newspapers, magazine articles and short stories were written about this ship. This vessel was also mentioned in some books of various writers and in the memories of Soviet Union and United States witnesses.