Name: | PERVOI |
Launched: | 12/06/1894 |
Completed: | 08/1894 |
Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 623 |
Dimensions: | 264grt, 117nrt, 185.0 x 25.0 x 7.2ft |
Engines: | 2 x C2cyl (16 & 30 x 42ins), 97nhp |
Engines by: | Bow, McLachlan & Co, Paisley |
Propulsion: | Paddle & chain |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
1894 | Government of Russia, Ministry of Ways & Communications |
1918 | Government of the USSR; renamed AMUR |
1938 | Norillag Gulag, USSR |
1944 | Renamed STEPAN VEREBRUSOV |
No later history known | |
Comments: | For service on Siberian rivers in connection with Trans-Siberian railway |
Used on the River Enisey (or Yeniseisk) | |
Failed to overcome the Angara rapids, so chain removed | |
1902: Chain removed and rebuilt as paddle tug | |
1906: Passed from Enisey via Kara Sea to river Ob | |
1908: Rebuilt as passenger river vessel | |
1938: Passed from river Ob via Kara Sea to river Enisey |
Above photo showing PERVOI & VTOROI is copyright of Newcastle City Libraries
Above photo showing the windlass for the chain between the funnels is copyright of Newcastle City Libraries
Above photo showing PERVOI in 1910 is courtesy of the Omsk Institute of Water Transport
Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Monday, 06/08/1894