SS Leninsky Komsomol

History
Name
  • Leninsky Komsomol
  • (Russian: Ленинский Комсомол)
  • Call Sing: UQIM
Owner1959–1988: Black Sea Shipping Company, USSR
Operator1959–1988: Black Sea Shipping Company
Port of registry
Builder Kherson shipyard
Launched11 of April, 1959. Construction completed including trials, handed over to Black Sea Shipping Co. and put into operation on 23 of December, 1959.
RenamedUngur (Russian: Унгур) on 31 of January, 1986
IdentificationIMO number: 5206166
FateScrapped in 1988
General characteristics
Typefreighter, tweendecker
Tonnage
  • 11,094 GT
  • 15,980 DW
Length557 ft (169.9 m)
Beam72 ft (21.8 m)
Height42 ft (12.9 m)
Draught31.9 ft (9.73 m)
Propulsiontwo steam turbine engines driving a single bronze screw propeller diam. 6.3 m (21 ft)
Crew48 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.