SS Admiral Nakhimov
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SS Admiral Nakhimov sailing under her original
name, Berlin, in 1925. |
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| Name: | SS Berlin |
| Namesake: | City of Berlin, Germany |
| Owner: | Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Builder: | Bremer Vulkan |
| Launched: | 24 March 1925 |
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| Homeport: | Bremen, Weimar Republic |
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| Fate: | Sunk by a mine near Swinemünde, salvaged by the Soviet Union in 1949. |
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| Name: | SS Admiral Nakhimov |
| Namesake: | Admiral Pavel Nakhimov |
| Owner: | Black Sea Steamship Company |
| Port of registry: | 1949–1986: Odessa,  Soviet Union
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| Out of service: | 1986 |
| Reclassified: | passenger liner (1957–1986) |
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| Fate: | 31 August 1986: sunk in a collision with bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Passenger liner |
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| Length: | 572 ft (174 m) |
| Beam: | 21.02 m (69.0 ft) |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1,101 + 24 extra passengers: 323 first-class; 290-second-class; 488 third-class; |
| Crew: | 313 + 41 extra crew |
SS Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов), launched in March 1925 and originally named SS Berlin, was a passenger liner of the German Weimar Republic later converted to a hospital ship, then a Soviet passenger ship. On 31 August 1986, Admiral Nakhimov collided with the large bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Tsemes Bay, near the port of Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, and quickly sank. In total, 423 of the 1,234 people on board died.
Berlin was built by Bremer Vulkan at Vegesack, Germany (Yard 614) and was completed in March 1925. She was launched on 25 March 1925, and commissioned on 17 September 1925. The ship was 572 feet (174 m) long, had four decks and a volume of 15,286 GRT. She originally operated the Bremen – Southampton – Cherbourg – New York City run for the North German Lloyd Line.
The ship's main route was between Bremerhaven, Southampton and New York, which she began on 26 September 1925 and operated until May 1939 when she was laid up in Bremerhaven for refitting. On 12 November 1928, Berlin rescued the passengers and crew of the liner Vestris, which sank off the coast of Virginia en route from New York City to Barbados. An estimated 113 people died in the sinking.
Berlin was chartered by the Nazis in 1939 as a Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF) workers' cruising ship and was used as a hospital ship later on in World War II.
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