The Fizik Kurchatov loading missiles in Casilda port. The photo was taken by an RF-101 pilot with the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing on 6 November 1962. Note the aircraft's shadow.
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History | |
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Name |
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Namesake | Igor Kurchatov |
Owner | June 1962 – 30 April 1986: Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union |
Operator | June 1962 – 30 April 1986: Black Sea Shipping Company, USS |
Port of registry |
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Builder | Kherson Shipyard |
Renamed | Kurchat (home port George Town, Cayman Islands[1][2] |
Identification | IMO number: 5404093 |
Fate | Scrapped at Kaohsiung, China in August 1986[1][2] |
General characteristics | |
Type | freighter, tweendecker |
Tonnage |
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Length | 557.7 ft (170.0 m)[4] |
Beam | 72.2 ft (22.0 m) |
Propulsion | Two steam turbine engines driving a single 6.3 m (21 ft) screw propeller |
Speed | 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph)[4] |
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SS Fizik Kurchatov (Russian: Физик Курчатов) was a Leninsky Komsomol-class multi-purpose tweendecker freighter owned by the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company. She was powered by steam turbine engines.[5] The ship was named after Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960).
Fizik Kurchatov was one of the Soviet ships which participated in Operation Anadyr, as one of nine Soviet ships which returned missiles to the USSR after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and also took part in the 1973 Arab–Israeli War.
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