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HMS Sobieski in wartime service
History
NameSobieski
OwnerGdynia-America Line – GAL
Port of registry1950–1975: Odessa, MS Sobieski Soviet Union
RouteSouth America service
BuilderSwan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend.
Launched25 August 1938
Completed15 June 1939
Maiden voyage15 June 1939
Out of service1939 taken up as troopship
Identification
  • Call sign: UPOV
  • IMO number: 5136866
Fate1975 scrapped at La Spezia
Notes
  • 1947 returned to civilian service
  • 1950 sold to Russia renamed Gruziya
General characteristics
Tonnage11,030 GRT
Length155.85 m (511 ft 4 in)
Beam20.41 m (67 ft 0 in)
Draft8.30 m (27 ft 3 in)
Installed powerEngines by J. G. Kincaid & Co, Greenock
Propulsion
  • 2 × screws
  • 2 × two-stroke diesel engines
Speed17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity44 first-class, 250 third-class and 850 emigrants
Notes[1]

MS Sobieski was a Polish passenger ship launched in 1939. It was constructed for the South American service of the Gdynia-America Line – GAL to replace the aging SS Kościuszko and SS Pulaski. She was named in honour of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski. Sobieski was to be a sister ship to the MS Chrobry.[2]

  1. ^ "Ship Descriptions - S". Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  2. ^ "Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson". Gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2015.

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