1954 capture of Soviet tanker by ROC Navy with her crew detained in Taiwan up to 34 years
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History
Soviet Union
Name
Tuapse (Russian: Туапсе)
Owner
Black Sea Shipping Company
Port of registry
Odessa, Soviet Union
Builder
Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark
Launched
1953
Fate
Captured by the ROC Navy in 1954
Republic of China
Name
ROCS Kuaiji, AOG-306 (會稽)
Acquired
23 June 1954
Commissioned
20 October 1955
Decommissioned
1 October 1965
General characteristics
Class and type
Apsheron-class, oil tanker
Tonnage
13,200 DWT
Displacement
18,000 t (17,716 long tons)
Length
149.14 m (489 ft 4 in)
Beam
19.16 m (62 ft 10 in)
Draft
8.36 m (27.4 ft)
Propulsion
6DKR 74/160, 5,530 shp (4,120 kW)
Speed
14.5 knots (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h)
Range
7 knots (8.1 mph; 13 km/h)
Complement
49
Armament
None
The capture of the tanker Tuapse occurred on 23 June 1954, when a civilian Soviet ship was captured and confiscated by the Republic of China Navy in the high seas near the Philippines and the sailors were detained in Taiwan for various periods with three deaths, until the last four were released in 1988.[1][2]
^Lin, Hung-i (2008). "Chapter 1" (PDF). <封鎖大陸沿海──中華民國政府的「關閉政策」, 1949-1960> [Blockading the China coast: the "port-closure policy" of ROC government, 1949-1960] (M.D. thesis) (in Chinese (Taiwan)). National Chengchi University. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
^"Taiwanese Society Under Martial Law Remembered". Taipei Times. 15 July 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
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